what *are* you doing here?
Having spent some time this afternoon doing actual work, I'm now back to goofing off. I made the mistake of opening the folder of "LJ posts in progress," which is a weird jumble of stuff about music, books, politics, academia, Firefly, Farscape, and squash soup. I promptly felt overwhelmed.
This got me thinking about LJ audience and the relationship, if any, between what I post and what people read. I mean, I study rhetoric and rhetorical situations, including the tension between actual, narrative, and ideal audiences. This stuff interests me. I know how *I* perceive this blog, but I realized that in most cases I have little to no idea how the folks on my "friends of" list got there or why you've stayed, whether there are additional lurkers about, etc.
So, in the spirit of academic inquiry, I thought I'd just ask. Just so you know, answers probably won't influence what I actually post; I'm merely curious. I don't know whether people without LJ accounts can vote in the poll, but anonymous comments on the subject are welcome.
Poll
This got me thinking about LJ audience and the relationship, if any, between what I post and what people read. I mean, I study rhetoric and rhetorical situations, including the tension between actual, narrative, and ideal audiences. This stuff interests me. I know how *I* perceive this blog, but I realized that in most cases I have little to no idea how the folks on my "friends of" list got there or why you've stayed, whether there are additional lurkers about, etc.
So, in the spirit of academic inquiry, I thought I'd just ask. Just so you know, answers probably won't influence what I actually post; I'm merely curious. I don't know whether people without LJ accounts can vote in the poll, but anonymous comments on the subject are welcome.
Poll