INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF BLOGGING |
We investigate blogging as a form of personal communication, with a specific interest in uncovering a range of motivations that individuals have for creating and maintaining blogs. We discuss implications for improving current blogging tools and how such tools may affect the continuing evolution of the Internet and the ways it is used in everyday life.
Blogging has historical precedents in paper journals, diaries, and chronicles. Such documents provide a chronological account with a strong personal point of view and clear sense of audience. In the Middle Ages, to take but one historical example, the renegade activities of the illiterate Basque adventurer Lope de Aguirre were chronicled by several of his men as Aguirre pillaged his way through parts of the New World. These accounts were colored by the need to stay on the good side of the treacherous Aguirre as well as by the writers’ notions of what would appeal to their audiences. One enticed his readers: “[Here] you will find cruelty, passion, and incidents arousing great pity…” . As we will see, today’s bloggers write with just as much attention to audience as did the ancient chroniclers.
In a more modern context, blogging is foreshadowed in Orson Scott Card’s science fiction novel Ender’s Game in which two characters, Peter and Valentine, establish what are essentially political blogs. Though they are only ages twelve and ten, the precocious Peter and Valentine create fictional characters whose political pronouncements come to be taken seriously by a large audience on the “nets.” Like today’s bloggers, Peter and Valentine search to see who’s reading them. They are delighted when “[some of their phrases] showed up in the major debates on the prestige nets.” Valentine, who created a politically conservative persona, despairs when she learns that her father, unaware of her character’s true identity, expresses his approval of her writing.
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