] While I'm on the topic of mediated personae, something ] that came up during that CBC taping, last night (for me, ] anyway) was the idea that blogging (or even posting to ] fora) represents the democratization of the mediated ] persona. Literally anyone can have one, now, or several. ] I am an exception to this, because I have mine via the ] printed word, the oldest mass medium on the planet, and ] this website is maintained by a publishing company that ] belongs to an even larger corporation owned in turn by ] shapeshifting reptiles from Beta Reticuli, but the rest ] of you, today, are free to mass-mediate your own ] personae. Which was formerly, hugely, not the case. ] Choose a handle, post: you're mediating a persona. William Gibson - SOMEONE WONDERS... - Media perception and blogs |