On page 82 of Jill Walker Rettberg’s book, Blogging-Digital Media and Society Series, she talks about how ‘self-documentation has always been incidental and deliberate.’ We all have taken pictures and placed them in scrapbooks, shoe boxes, or photo albums to look at later in the future and remember the memories that were taken place during the photo. Now, with blogging, anyone is permitted to voice what they are doing and write whatever that comes to mind. There are many different blogs that are specifically dedicated to a topic of choice and the blogger specially blogs about that topic. Or there are informal blogs such as facebook or twitter where you update your status and let your friends know what you are doing. In the blog that I am currently following, Nick Sundt’s Climate Blog, he specially voices out about how we can prevent more climate change and the world issues that occur daily. He incidentally and deliberately writes about his topic yet brings professionalism to the table. He supports his opinions and articles with many different contexts, videos, and links.
When writing my essay I didn't even think about this part of the book but it is so relevant to what we are writing about. Blogs are all about self documentation and what we post on our blogs defines the type of person we want our readers to see us as. This is a great part of the book to talk about in your essay, good job remembering it!
ReplyDeleteThat is a good quote to bring into your essay. I think it would fit well with your essay having reviewed it.
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