Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring 2007
Kalynne Hackney Pudner
Pages 65-71
“Comment Me Back”
Expectations of Intimacy in the Culture of Blog
Electronic communication raises challenges to our understanding of the ethics of interpersonal relationship. This paper examines one area of electronic communication, the practice of journal blogging, and its correlation to one form of interpersonal relationship, intimacy. Analyzing intimacy in terms of knowledge, esteem, and assimilation, the paper argues that while journal blogging would seem to enhance and facilitate these relational elements, the practice in fact and in principle undermines them.