{"id":1671,"date":"2006-10-31T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2006-10-31T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T19:25:15","slug":"is-this-a-mirror-or-a-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"Is this a mirror or a veil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to one of my earlier academic interests &#8211; which I still keep up, I&#8217;ve <a href = \"http:\/\/rccs.usfca.edu\/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=427&#038;BookID=304\">a review of a book on blogging, <i>The Mirror and the Veil<\/i><\/a>. As I say in the review: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Serfaty writes: &#8220;The screen &#8230; establishes a dialectical relationship between disclosure and secrecy, between transparency and opacity&#8221; (13). When I think of two of the &#8220;diary-type&#8221; blogs that I read regularly, <a href = \"http:\/\/www.petiteanglaise.com\/\">Petite Anglaise<\/a> and <a href = \"http:\/\/susoz.typepad.com\/\">Personal Political<\/a>, I see that as a potentially useful framework for thinking about their writing. In the first case, Petite apparently discloses all, yet she is very careful to screen her physical identity; in the second case, &#8220;Susoz&#8221; admits her difficulties in dealing with the separation of the two and makes this part of her online persona. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was the attraction of the metaphor that took me to the book, but as you&#8217;ll see if you read the review I was otherwise disappointed. Maybe I was unduly harsh &#8211; the other three reviews there are more positive, although express some of the same reservations, but perhaps more tactfully &#8211; have a look and see what you think.<\/p>\n<p>(The cynic in me notes the other three reviewers are academics&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to one of my earlier academic interests &#8211; which I still keep up, I&#8217;ve a review of a book on blogging, The Mirror and the Veil. As I say in the review: Serfaty writes: &#8220;The screen &#8230; establishes a dialectical relationship between disclosure and secrecy, between transparency and opacity&#8221; (13). When I think of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}