Most interesting...
In looking around to assess the situation in the Iranian Blogosphere today, I came across Persian Blogger Chronicles. For those of you who have an academic bent (and, having one, myself, I do mean bent...) this is the blog of an ethnographer who is apparently Iranian and clearly a grad student. (He also has an English blog, a Farsi blog, a design research project, a wife and a 6 month old baby. Definitely a grad student.)His focus is on the "transformations that take place in the 'psychodynamics of mind' in a society, once the primary medium of comminication and intellectual production in that society changes," likening the Internet boom, with blogging as a sub-set, to the changes in western culture around Gutenberg's little machine. It is "bringing about another shift in the use of communication media: this time from literacy to 'cybercy.'"
Very kewl.
I cite in particular his analysis of blogs as an evolution of toilet graffiti. (HA! He's Right!)
("it's all about the caves and the ink..." see comments section)
Posted by Claire on 05/11 at 12:14 PM
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