The article “Blogging: Self Preservation and Privacy” (2008) by Karen McCullagh looked into the reasons behind blogging and the privacy issues it uncovers. Blogs, by being a successive series of posts that can be commented and shared upon, are public by nature. The article classified privacy as a cluster with informational, accessibility and expressive angles to what an individual does (5), and the study conducted found that bloggers not only held a value with their audience and the interaction blogs provide, but that privacy controls and shapes how content is posted and presented to that audience (17). Personal information, hobbies, passwords, filters, etc. all create levels of privacy between the blogger and the readers.
For these blog posts in particular, I tend to stay general with my personal experiences and like to keep some level of anonymity, while still being thorough with my discussion about a given article or news story. Being that this is an online college course, I keep my tone and method of writing a bit more professional and less casual than a personal blog might entail. I used to keep a personal blog active several years ago, and the posts there tended to be more random than anything else. I would keep some consistent things across the board, like what my current indulgences in music, movies, shows and games were, as well as consistently rambling about school-related dilemmas. Even then, however, personal details stayed general, and I made sure not to name names or disclose private problems that the public at large need not know.
The first paragraph of your blog gave a good overview of what “Blogging: Self Preservation and Privacy” by Karen McCullagh was about. I liked that you referenced specific pages in your blog. I do not usually do that in my blogs. I think that because you put pages it would be easier to reference the article directly because you provided the page. I admire that you brought up how this class uses blogs to discuss and learn. I did not think about it as I wrote my summary. You made a good point on how for school our blogs may sound different and provide different details than a personal blog would.
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