Saturday, January 26, 2008

"Meet Joe Blog" response

In response to Lev Grossman's "Meet Joe Blog" and its message that the internet can be used by anyone is a far assessment in that anyway can say whatever they want on a blog and use the internet to have their voice heard. But the average person trying to get their blog read by someone across the county isn't realistic. They might have a better chance of sticking their head out the window and yelling to them. The internet is just too big for people to pick up everyday chatter from people that are not on respectable websites. There are cases however that someone could stumble upon your topic and have interest in what you’re talking about but again these days the internet is down on for its wide verity of opinions and the negativity they have. For the most part people like to complain about something rather than speak highly of what they are arguing about. For example MySpace is one of the largest forums for teenagers complaining about their lives and how they have it so hard. It's these types of blogs that make the ability to blog seem not as important with the amount of people that complain. But it's still their right to do so so they can. But this example doesn’t make blogs useless, it just decreases their value as more and more people use this just as a medium to complain and hope someone will read this and agree with them. But for the people who actually enjoying talking about how this sports team is doing on a road trip or someone on the presidential campaign blogging about how the campaign is going there is still value to blogging. People will read them to see what these people have to say to either agree with them or to argue with them. And I guess that’s democracy.

1 comment:

Geoffrey Bateman said...

I think you're right to emphasize the vastness of the internet and how it makes challenging to be heard (unless you're a PR wizard and know how to market your writing/opinions ...)

And I also like how you gesture to the community building possibility of blogging. How do you think we might use our blogs in our course to enrich our class time?