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What Was Blogging?
Journal of Musicological Research Pub Date : 2019-04-03 , DOI: 10.1080/01411896.2019.1601982
Phil Ford 1
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Recently, Jonathan Bellman and I agreed to shut down our blog, Dial “M” for Musicology. It feels like a momentous decision to me, partly because so much of my professional life has been devoted to the thing: since 2006 we’ve written several hundred thousand words in almost 700 posts and have been read by tens of thousands of people, both inside and outside the academy. But it also feels anticlimactic, not to say comically belated, like the shuttering of the last telegraph office. (Which by the way happened in July 2013, coincidentally only a few days after we relaunched Dial “M” from a 2-year hiatus.) Dial “M” just died, but the informational ecosystem that birthed and nourished it in the aughts, the interdependent network of blogs all talking to one another and sharing gossip, arguments, memes, recommendations, personal announcements, and all the other stuff that Facebook and Twitter would shortly siphon off – in short, what used to be called the blogosphere – has been dead for years. Either way, though, the final end of Dial “M” offers me an occasion to think about what it means to have done so much of my academic work in an unregulated online space of public musicology, or what it might mean for anyone to do likewise. For if blogs are dead, academic discourse is more public, online, and unregulated than ever, albeit in the degraded and low-effort forms of Facebook and Twitter. The reason I write about blogging in the past tense is given in the title of a post by conductor Kenneth Woods: “Facebook Ate My Blog.” As Woods notes, blogs still exist, but the internet has shifted around them. “Bloggers may come and go, but at a fundamental level, the way in which blogs work has changed,” Woods writes:

中文翻译:

什么是博客?

最近,乔纳森·贝尔曼和我同意关闭我们的博客,为音乐学拨“M”。对我来说,这感觉是一个重大决定,部分原因是我的大部分职业生涯都致力于这件事:自 2006 年以来,我们在近 700 个帖子中写了几十万字,并被成千上万的人阅读,无论是学院内外。但它也让人感到虎头蛇尾,更不用说可笑的迟到了,就像最后一家电报局的关闭一样。(顺便说一下,这件事发生在 2013 年 7 月,巧合的是,就在我们从 2 年的中断中重新启动 Dial “M” 几天后。) Dial “M” 刚刚消亡,但是孕育它并滋养它的信息生态系统在此期间,相互依赖的博客网络相互交流,分享八卦、争论、模因、推荐、个人公告,而 Facebook 和 Twitter 很快就会吸走的所有其他东西——简而言之,曾经被称为博客圈——已经消失多年。不管怎样,Dial“M”的最后结尾让我有机会思考在不受监管的公共音乐学在线空间中完成这么多学术工作意味着什么,或者对任何人来说意味着什么同样地。因为如果博客已死,学术讨论将比以往任何时候都更加公开、在线和不受监管,尽管以 Facebook 和 Twitter 的退化和低努力形式。我用过去时写博客的原因在指挥肯尼斯伍兹的一篇文章的标题中给出:“Facebook 吃了我的博客。” 正如伍兹所指出的,博客仍然存在,但互联网已经围绕它们转移。“博主可能来来去去,但在基本层面上,
更新日期:2019-04-03
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