yes, exactly: blogging cultivates the isolated, elevated, asocial individual
By shag carpet bomb • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: Belly Button Lint, Here Comes Everybody, Internet, Research, Social movements, TheoryI heard Clay Shirkey on NPR a couple of days ago, so I’ve been reading up on his latest book, “Here Comes Everybody.” I’m probably going to use some of his stuff in a presentation I have to do for work. At Amazon, I read this in one of the reviews:
Writing in sharp contrast to Shirky’s view of social media as a collective experience for “us”, Lee Siegel, in Against the Machine, believes the Internet mainly serves “me” and often brings out the banal in “amateurs”. He calls it, “the first social environment to serve the needs of the isolated, elevated, asocial individual.”
yes. exactly.
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True. How’s life treating you?