From my post to Radha ki Betiyaan pvt blog:
Okay – even though everyone [on RkB] almost is on facebook and some are on twitter – and several of you may have individual blogs. And we have once again started mass emailing each other.
This is still a different way of being, communication in this “space” we call Radha ki Betiyaan.
I am returning to posting and getting a sense of how I feel as I post in each of my many blogs – or some.
So I blogged some research notes on my livejournal – that only a. has an account on amongst all of you – and has access to when I set it to a certain type of private post setting.
I will go blog again on my cyberdiva.org blog and other spaces (all semester my students and I have been on tumblr.com because we are class blogging there).
Facebook allows different kinds of interactions – scattered and sudden and on impulse even. Twitter allows me to be very very scattered with no dialogue until I or someone else on my twitter list chooses to (similar to facebook status responses – but not with such a potentially large audience – so its not that kind of theater).
I’ve noticed that many many in P’s generation and S’s generation have a custom of keeping public blogs. The public theatricality of bloggling, facebook and twitter (and I am not even getting into youtube here because I speak only of written text) subconsciously shaping their way of being…
Add to this mix the act of posting and typing via Iphone interface.
thinking aloud and ending abruptly as always with my thoughts in-progress (and this is part of the website culture that I started out in since 1990s and that continues now in blogger culture)…
2 Comments
Is the blog subconsiously shaping their being or is it the outer representation of their life that is being shaped in so many ways, some of which they describe in their blog!
I guess it goes both ways Prabha – mutually re-shaping agency and subjectivity. As one of these bloggers yourself, I am happy to see you self-reflectively talk about the practice!
One of the things i see is that among those many things shaping your being that you mention – blogging and an awareness of your blog and facebook etc networks indeed shapes our being and this feeds into our articulation in other offline and online spaces – what do you think?
and as always I like it very much when those that I begin to directly or indirectly comment on actually comment back.
As I develop my arguments in relation to “territorialized/located subjects” in deterritorialized/travelling networks I will share some of these with you – feel free to put in your opinions!
thanks prabha
r