Ritchey Rearticulates · Friday November 17, 2006
Ritchey is cool dude extraordinaire, PhD student in some sort of music field at UCLA, and typer of hundreds of words per minute. She blogs about her cat at Regarding.
“1. maybe instead of broadening your focus to many BLOGS, you could focus on blog GROUPINGs, like UrbanHonking and the salon.com blogs, or whatever else—-groups of blogs that blog about issues? Then you could narrow your focus while still having many many different blogs to work with?? I don’t know all the different blog “communities” out there, but maybe this is a good compromise?
“2. I think this is an interesting topic, and very VERY timely and important. I definitely do think that blogging challenges some sort of hegemony (and I prefer “hegemony” to “dominance,” because it really IS hegemony)...you can see the defensiveness in stuffy places like the NYT and even the New Yorker—-did you see that New Yorker article about how “oh yeah, right, the internet is democratizing the news, sure…..really it’s just a bunch of people writing about their cats.”
“I mean, what????
“I can see how your topic is kind of broad, but maybe just add in a FEW specifics (groups/communities in specific instead of just “blogs,” also maybe talk specifically about WHAT events/issues are blogged about these days and how it is directly different from corporate media? I am thinking specifically of the 2004 election, the RNC in new york (blogs that actually talked about police brutality among protesters instead of just the bland, vaguely-anti-protester CNN coverage, etc.)....stuff like that??
“Maybe “narrowing your focus” doesn’t have to mean a bad thing, maybe it just means that you SPECIFY more stuff. Communities / specific events that were different in corporate/internet media / how you see the effects of the blogging world on current events—-what about MoveOn.org??? very interesting! Very powerful!”
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