Bloggers: ‘isolated and lonely’
p2pnet.net News:- People who, “bare their souls in blogs are isolated and lonely, living in a virtual reality instead of forming real relationships or helping to change the world,” reckons Michael Keren, author of Blogosphere: The New Political Arena.
“Bloggers think of themselves as rebels against mainstream society, but that rebellion is mostly confined to cyberspace, which makes blogging as melancholic and illusionary as Don Quixote tilting at windmills,” the CBC has him saying.
A University of Calgary communication and culture professor, Keren, “praised the internet as a great place for self-expression, but he also suggested that blogs often create feelings of loneliness for those who aren’t lucky enough to reach ‘celebrity’ status,” says the story, which also has him declaring:
“Many of us end up like Father McKenzie in the Eleanor Rigby Beatles song, who is writing a sermon that no one is going to hear. Some of us are going to be embraced by the mainstream media, but the majority of us remain in the dark, remain in the loneliness.”
Keren follows the blogs of nine individuals, including a Canadian woman living in the woods in a cabin in Quebec, who, “discusses her identity through stories about her two cats,” says the CBC.
Also See:
CBC – Bloggers living in a virtual reality, professor says, January 31, 2007
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February 1st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
This glass is half empty.
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:33 am
I could see why that is true, but it only explains personal blogs. It says noting about informative or journalistic blogs, although those too could be in theory reporting to no one as well.
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:43 pm
A blogger responds:
>….Bloggers are âlonelyâ?? This poor sod lives in the echoing ivory towers of mediocrity, teaching âcommunnication and culture.â If heâd pop over to the Psychology Department, they could explain the theory of projection to him…>
more at:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/02/all-lonely-bloggers-where-do-they-all.html