The Location of an Author
The Location of an Author
The question discussed in this text could be formulated like this: what is the location of the blogger or a related kind of web 2.0 author? The location will strongly influence our view of the persons spinning the net of web 2.0. Are bloggers, for example, ‘authors’ or are they something new, something still to be named and understood?
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Everything starts in a location. You can call it ontology or just view it as a partial origin for every story told by material-semiotic story telling processes making up our space time continuum. In a theistic frame of reference there is always a master location to use as a point of reference. But God does not really regard Jürgen Habermas’ book Theory of Communicative Action as his bible. God talks, or writes, in parables rather than use his omnipotence to make us understand his will. I use a male God construction because I cannot see God as a woman. A woman/mother would not do the things God do to his children. The western annexation of Iraq and the tragedy of 9/11 both had male locations.
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