Blogs and|as Selves

Business

Recap

Todays readings focus on the topics of community, identity and "vulgarity"
These themes intersect with themes discussed earlier in the coruse
- Manovich
- Lyotard
- Anderson

Blog as a "speech genre"
- Private diary? Personal letters? Op Ed? News?
The Vulgarity debate
- High-brow vs. Low-brow blogging
Hegemony
Deep Play: "cultural sites where multiple levels of structure, explanation, and meaning, intersect and condense, including the cultural phantasmagoria that ground and structure the terrain on which reason, will, and language operate but cannot contain."