On 7 Mar 2008, at 15:25, Charles Ess wrote:
bloggers by definition want their material to be read
Coming in on this one a bit late and perhaps I am making too much of what was probably just a passing comment, but I have to take issue with this. It is true that (non-friend/password protected) bloggers are making their material available to be read. But in my own interviews (with 22 personal webloggers) their imagined and desired relationships with readers varied widely and a few of them said they had no intention to be read by anyone else when they started. We need to leave room for the people we study to fool themselves on issues like this (one of the central points of my upcoming thesis in fact!) --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunicati...
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