Comments on: Conspicuous Leisure http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2003/07/28/conspicuous-leisure/ faults | sins | abuses Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Gabriel http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2003/07/28/conspicuous-leisure/#comment-109 Gabriel Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2003/07/28/conspicuous-leisure/#comment-109 Blogging is definitely full of class markers, and in this way can be more of a 'closed loop' than websites/ newsgroups based around particular activities/ interests, which have more of a tendency to cut across class boundaries, I think. I was reminded of this in the discussion to <a href="http://www.invisibleadjunct.com/archives/000199.html">this Invisible Adjunct post</a>, where the "middle-aged, middle class, midwestern mother of three" really managed to change the dynamic of the discussion, to the mild consternation of the regular posters. I hope you'll be writing more on this question! Blogging is definitely full of class markers, and in this way can be more of a ‘closed loop’ than websites/ newsgroups based around particular activities/ interests, which have more of a tendency to cut across class boundaries, I think.

I was reminded of this in the discussion to this Invisible Adjunct post, where the “middle-aged, middle class, midwestern mother of three” really managed to change the dynamic of the discussion, to the mild consternation of the regular posters. I hope you’ll be writing more on this question!

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