{"id":268,"date":"2005-12-17T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T06:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/12\/17\/area-woman-eschews-web-presence\/"},"modified":"2005-12-17T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-17T06:17:11","slug":"area-woman-eschews-web-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/12\/17\/area-woman-eschews-web-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Area woman eschews web presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1163'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A friend I made just recently was trying to explain a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fear of public exposure<\/span><br \/>\n&#8212; not precisely a passionate sense of privacy, as certain breaches<br \/>\nthereof were acceptable (being published in one&#8217;s own field, being<br \/>\nknown for good work one had done, being a backup dancer on stage); but<br \/>\na strong aversion to specific kinds of exposure (being published for a<br \/>\nlay audience, having comments published in a local paper, being a<br \/>\nsinger on stage, having a web page, being written about publicly by<br \/>\nfriends).&nbsp; It made me think of what a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">luxury <\/span>this is; of all the people in the world who have no access to exposure, nor any notion of what it might mean to be &#8216;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">overexposed<\/span>&#8216;.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Reverends Mandell and Pierce gave sermons recently about survival in the modern world; specifically for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">children<\/span>,<br \/>\nwhose capacities to choose are frequently limited. Global Voices should<br \/>\nstart including those of children &#8212; not yet old enough to have their<br \/>\nown sites, perhaps, but surely <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">old enough<\/span><br \/>\nto think, react, journal, and speak.&nbsp; I know some people who would<br \/>\nlike this idea; for instance, I would love to hear thoughts on the<br \/>\nmatter from <a href=\"http:\/\/rconversation.blogs.com\/\">Rebecca<\/a>.&nbsp; Mandell spoke of&nbsp; <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">reaching out<\/span> to children; Pierce published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalhealth.org\/rx_for_child_survival\/month_of_prayer.php\">sermon<\/a> from his church in Lawrence, on sinning by omission, which I find significantly less <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">compelling<\/span> [how many omissions would I unmake, if I could?&nbsp; and how to prioritize among them?].&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But reaching out, taking their voices seriously as we do those of adults, is a major step.&nbsp; Let us take it.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.globalhealth.org\/rx_for_child_survival\/month_of_prayer.php'>Area woman eschews web presence &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend I made just recently was trying to explain a fear of public exposure &#8212; not precisely a passionate sense of privacy, as certain breaches thereof were acceptable (being published in one&#8217;s own field, being known for good work one had done, being a backup dancer on stage); but a strong aversion to specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetic-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-4k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}