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Re: substance over style (3.00 / 0)

That's an excellent point; I think you are right that the class warfare between bloggers and insiders will grow with time.

The question, though, is how blogging will change as it becomes democratized and the blog-reader's profile grows increasingly representative of the population at large. My guess is that blogs will retain many of the characteristics they posess today; to put it another way, bloggers I think are more "in touch" than their incomes suggest.

Just thinking of families I know, the main predictor of internet access is whether or not they have a kid who grew of age in the internet era. Income is less important. I was surprised to see that the dailykos readership spans a wide range of ages and centers much higher (30s+) than you would expect; that doesn't square with my personal experience.

by sdedeo on Fri Jan 13, 2006 at 04:10:08 PM EST
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Re: substance over style (none / 0)

That actually has become less true for me lately. Obviously it's entirely subjective cause it's just the people I happen to run into, but when I moved from an upper-middle-class, mostly white area (where you're right, an internet-aged kid made a big difference) to a more lower-middle-to-lower class community, while internet access is often helped along by having someone come of age around it (as much because schools require it now as anything) they still aren't huge on using the net for day-to-day functioning, entertainment, or for long stretches of time. The net (perhaps cause it's still relatively new), is an incidental tool to a large extent, not the lifeblood that it's become for many who have had it longer and have integrated it into everyday life. Again, this would suggest that as the internet expands and evolves, it will become more widely used and thus more class issues will arise.
by Lucas O'Connor on Fri Jan 13, 2006 at 05:30:19 PM EST
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