Am I a Blogger? - The Message - Medium - 0 views
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Over the last 30 years, we’ve systematically eliminated young people’s ability to participate in public life. They turn to technology as a relief valve, as an opportunity to have a space of their own. As a chance to be public. And, of course, we shoo them away from there too.
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Traditional aspects of power are asserted through technology. It’s no longer the realm of the marginalized, but the new mechanisms by which marginalization happen
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Technology is situated within a context of capitalism, traditional politics, and geoglobal power struggles.
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Boyd provides an open and honest account of blogging as a for of expression. Makes you question where to next.