My main interest in this area is that I am a contributor to a joint academic blog called TerraNova. From persona experience it is certainly interesting that impact that this blog has on academic debate, industry debate and my own personal standing in each. I don't particularly follow the academic work on blogging but I think the area that I would follow if I did is the whole one about the way that blogging challenges certain ideas about the legitimacy of media. A specific example is the recent debate in the US about what rights the press have in virtue of them being 'the press' and how (at least from news coverage) it seems to be that established interest in both the press and law making are portrayed as wanting to structure affordances in such a way that they do not extend to bloggers. In personal experience this comes down to little things like - do I get a (free) press pass to an event or not. Generally speaking in the computer games world I have no problem as I would suggest that our blog is seen a more legitimate than much of the online and print culture. Other than the normative spins on: what is that counts as legitmate and what does legitimate count for, ares that strike me as ethically interesting are those to do with marginalised voices, whistle blowing, public vs private - especially when it comes to corporate affairs etc. Ren On 29/11/05 18:41, "Charles Ess" <cmess@drury.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to interviewed for a newspaper story (Pittsburgh) on blogging and blogs - of the many things I know so little about, those would be right up there... (the vagaries of reporting, I suppose...)
While I have a few meager thoughts on the phenomena, including a shred of ethical reflection - would the air community like to throw any important thoughts (and references) my way? I'll happily credit anyone I can cite - and/or refer the reporter to the _real_ experts out there in AoIR-land.
Let me know - and thanks, -- cX (the unknown charlie, who followed the original Charlie onto the executive committee - tee-hee)
Charles Ess
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