
I’ve been reading about Web 2.0 and some of the academic explanations concerning its development and popularity. A couple of explanations use the concepts of sousveillance and scopophilia. Sousveillance is the self-generation of surveillance, wherein an individual generates data about themselves for their own and others use. Blogging constitutes one form of sousveillance, where a person records and shares snippets about their life: their views, thoughts, opinions, actions, details about their family, their history, etc. The need to share and discuss these in an open forum is driven, in part, by scopophilic tendencies, where scopophilia is the pleasure in looking and in being looked at.
Which brings me to my questions – how much of the motivation for blogging is driven by the pleasure of looking and being looked? How much pleasure do you derive from people reading and commenting on your blog? Do you suffer from scopophilia?
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