Today we live in a world of impact and engagement where we
are encouraged to embrace social medias e.g. face book and twitter, and to
communicate in broader ways in which to reach a wider audience. Blogs are used
for a variety of different purposes, which can include, promoting a business,
to share different views and opinions or generally just to inform society about
certain things which are happening that may be of interest.
The birth of the internet has given anyone with access to
the internet the opportunity to express themselves through different discourses
on a wide variety of different social, personal, political or ethical subjects
in which they can use self-expression through a sense of confession.
Foucault suggests that confession is to “Declare aloud and
intelligibly the truth of oneself” this can relate to the topic of blogs
because it can allow the person to be open and honest about views and opinions
with a wider audience, but also leaves it open for them to communicate
different feelings about oneself. The ethical point here could be is there a
point when these expressions, views and feelings can go too far and lead to
victimisation and bullying? Confession at one time in history was seen as
something which people would only do too someone that was widely versed in a
specific topic, e.g. doctors whereas now self-expression and confession seems
to have veered away from this, and is regularly used in all forms of social
media and personal social pages that we as individuals and groups have decided
to join.
I decided to look at
a blog on football as this is a keen interest of mine. When looking at this
blog there is a clear community element and sharing of similar ideals. The
dialect that this writer decided to use provokes emotion ‘the cold chill’ for
example, when reading the first part of the blog this really stuck out to me as
it suggested that the writer was trying to engage its audience on a personal
level with people who are interested but also not as enthused about the topic,
whereas on the other hand when looking at academic blogs they are far more
objective and loose personal tones, which can sometimes not engage with
‘normal’ people, and are more designed to people with that specific interest.
This is the website that I used:
The use of
pictures within this blog gives it a nice layout and breaks up the information and
had an appealing effect on the eye which makes you want to read more or even
gives you interest at first.
When looking at
academic blogs my scholars or university lectures the difference between there
blogs and the blog which I found of interest were significant. The academic
blogs were very structured from point to point and topic to topic, with very
formal colloquial language which had a specific meaning and interpretation, whereas
the blogs by less academic people who were trying to distil a sense of community
within their blogs were less structured used less academic and formal language
and were not always as much of a matter of fact, they were left for
interpretation of those who decided to look at the work. For me I much prefer the blogs that were not
all about fact and opinions but those that had more of a personal feeling and
attitude towards them.
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