[-empyre-] On Blogging
Melynda,
If the Blogg, the 'mass observation', witness and cultural analysis of
millions of people worldwide has been termed 'inappropriate' then I think
this *incident* requires a little *investigation*, followed by a _decisive_ *public
intervention*, don't you? No point trying to pin the blame on the 'Spectre spooks'.
The Blog is an expression of a deep stream in education and collective life:
'Mass Observation' organised in 'Cliques' or 'Collectives', bound by Uncanny Connectivities and clusterings that can lead to news travelling to every city
and town, village and hamlet based on a set of communicative rules and codes that
are really quite familiar but a distributive network that is hardly known let
alone understood. The most highly connected among bloggers get opinion around
the globe within minutes, the word enters other networks, workplace, school, community and other media of communication, phone networks, ftf, as well as
local mass media chat (24 hours), and eventually advertising media. Only, however,
if the word has veracity. Only if it gels with people's expectation of the news
and their common experience, only if it illuminates the collective commonsense.
Not if it readily mutates or degenerates through willful manipulation. In this
case the meaning is the manipulation and the question raised usually a question
about the motive, purpose and investment in the manipulation of the media and
the message.
There's a second generation transformation of your repetititon of the supposed
'inappropriate' tag applied to Blogs [the exact reference appears in the AoIR
list in Jan-Feb where my intervention into bad practice in scholarship and
industry was responded to by a query from a Cartographer of Internet who
invited information on Blogs and Blogging] in Jill/Txt:
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">>>posted: 4/6/02 13:34
guest on -empyre-
I'm going to be a guest on -empyre- for the next couple of weeks. -empyre- is
"an arena for the discussion of media arts practice"; a mailing list moderated
by Melinda Rackham. Melinda invites a new guest once or twice a month, which is
a great way of keeping the list active, interesting and thematically somewhat coherent. It's great to have a chance to explore a topic or an artist's ideas
in some depth. Anyway, I've been invited to talk about blogging, which apparently
has been called "an inappropriate art form" - the idea of inappropriate art is in itself stunning. In a couple of weeks time Adrian will be taking over, talking
about his vogs and the relation of video and blogging.>>>
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I see the original 'inappropriate media' of your post has elided into
'inappropriate art' in Jill/Txt, an idea disseminated through her audience as
well as, now, through the audience of Empyre. This is curious. Let's see where
this goes. The elision seems willful, to a purpose.
Charles Ess is cited in parentheses in Jill/Txt and so is Christine Hine, both in
the context of ethics and Internet. I therefore cc this message to them. One would hope they might lend their insight into ethical practice to a discussion on ethics
among members of the art and media curator class.
BTW, if anyone is interested, I invented the e-methodology where one develops
an online publication as a way of approaching an ethnomethodology of WWW with 'difference engine' in 1994. It's a highly productive approach.
I also have a web log I started in March 1993 (though it wasn't called 'web log'
then it was called a diary) which I maintain until this day.
My chums Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie really formed the genre with their
travelogue A Hypertext Journal in March 1996 (we mixed approaches in April 96),
the idea that one might open ones thoughts out onto the WWW was an unfamiliar one
at the time and the idea that a range of emotions could be conveyed via distributed computing was very much in question. How times change.
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> > > >bloggs were termed 'inappropriate' in a call for for papers for
> > > conference/workshop which i have foirgotten the name of but i think it was
> > > advertised on the spectre mailing list in the last few weeks..sorry - i dont
> > > have the email any more..
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> > > > I find it unlikely that bloggs could be referred to as 'inappropriate media'
> > > > though there is some concern about bad practice in Internet scholarship and in the Industry at large. If there is indeed a question about Bloggs as 'inappropriate media' could you pass on the reference?
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> > > > Best
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> > > > Lachlan
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> > > > Lachlan Brown
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> > > > differenc engine 1993 - 2002
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> > > > > -empyre- is pleased to introduce our guests for June - Jill Walker and
> > > > > Adrain Miles - who will be discussing the art and theory of hypertext,
> > > > > bloggs (which have been recently referred to as "inappropriate media
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> > > > > Jill Walker is a researcher working on digital narratives and blogs, and a
> > > > > background in hypertext theory. Jill started blogging about five minutes
> > > > > after discovering what a weblog was, and cannot now imagine life without
> > > > > blogs. Her blog, jill/txt (http://cmc.uib.no/jill), serves both as a
> > > > > research tool, as a part of a community and as a creative outlet for
> > > > > thinking about the net outside of the rigid formalities of academia. Jill is
> > > > > mostly based at the University of Bergen in Norway, where she's currently
> > > > > completing a PhD, and she also lives in Melbourne quite often.
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> > > > > Adrian Miles is a lecturer in new media and cinema studies at RMIT in
> > > > > Melbourne, Australia http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au and is researching the
> > > > > connections/intersections between cinema and hypertext for his Phd. Having
> > > > > taken film theory (Deleuze) into hypertext he is now taking hypertext into
> > > > > film via low bit rate interactive video sketches (vogs)
> > > > > http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/ . Adrian is also a researcher in
> > > > > interactive video at Intermedia, a research lab at the Uni. of Bergen in
> > > > > Norway http://www.intermedia.uib.no
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> > > > > Jill will kick off the discussion on hypertext and blogging, and Adrian
> > > > > will continue with video blogging and show some examples of this work in the
> > > > > send half of the month.
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