{"id":284,"date":"2005-11-14T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T14:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=284"},"modified":"2005-11-14T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T14:24:25","slug":"dont-fear-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/dont-fear-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":""Don't Fear The Blog""},"content":{"rendered":"

Strange headline–I’m irresistibly reminded of Blue Oyster Cult, even if I can’t get the proper diacritical mark there–but an interesting article in the Chronicle<\/a> nonetheless. Rebecca Goetz<\/a> writes a thoughtful, even temperate essay on her own experience as a grad-school blogger, offering evidence of its personal and professional value in her studies, and challenging the current backlash-assumption that blogging is dangerous to one’s career. She cites the earlier, pseudonymous<\/a> “Ivan Tribble” essays<\/a> in the Chronicle, and shares the “metablogging” questions and answers that emerged for her as she considered “Tribble”‘s arguments.<\/p>\n

I’m not naive enough to think that masking and the ultra-careful control of information don’t play a large role in academic success, but I am stubborn enough to think it shouldn’t be that way. Higher education in particular has the responsibility to demonstrate to the world that there’s a better way. Irony doesn’t begin to describe the current situation, though, in which we urge our students to find their voices and spend most of our time manipulating our own. Perhaps this is the sour result of Foucault’s argument that all discourse is merely the circulation of power. I don’t believe that’s true, myself, but if it is, who could be blamed for turning to concealed weapons? And what could be more disruptive than the blogosphere?<\/p>\n

Unless the blogosphere itself is nothing more than the latest instance of discourse as the circulation of power, as some (not all) students of social network analysis<\/a> believe. I don’t believe that myself, not because I don’t believe the blogosphere cannot become a Foucaultian power exchange, or that power circulation doesn’t characterize some of the blogosphere already, but because I don’t believe such a thing is inevitable.<\/p>\n

Rebecca says it’s a great time to be an academic blogger<\/a>. I agree. And that greatness is our shared responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strange headline–I’m irresistibly reminded of Blue Oyster Cult, even if I can’t get the proper diacritical mark there–but an interesting article in the Chronicle nonetheless. Rebecca Goetz writes a thoughtful, even temperate essay on her own experience as a grad-school … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-4A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}