personal privacy codes or ethics?
What a difference a name makes! Should we say we are interested in “ethics,” or look for a fresh term that doesn’t carry the baggage of being used over the centuries as an abstraction by hoary masculinist philosophers?. How do women writing blogs think differently from men writing treatises about governing values? Are they driven by a code, or do they learn as they go, by doing? Inductive or deductive, then?
We want to look at ethical practices, and see from these which, if any, appear to be shared. We want to ask mommy bloggers to confirm and disconfirm our hunches about shared lines that draw us together as a community of practitioners. At this stage, we have learned to wonder if any of these boundaries can be codified, or if should be treated as fluid and moving and nascent, resistant to be written down and numbered?
Fiona and I are also mommy bloggers, who have come to this art in later days of parenting. We have adult children. Ethical conundrums are rich when it comes to writing about our children who also happen to be legal adults. But we think the ethical gauze and labyrinth surrounding writing about underage children might be just as dense. We think that bloggers work their way through the labyrinth using sense, and we want to see if some of that is shared or held in common. Or is it a matter of making personal and situationally-responsive decisions?
In the year ahead we hope to meet many bloggers, here on our blog, and by going to their blogs.We are excited to encourage conversations about limits and freedoms of expression. It’s a big topic!
We want to look at ethical practices, and see from these which, if any, appear to be shared. We want to ask mommy bloggers to confirm and disconfirm our hunches about shared lines that draw us together as a community of practitioners. At this stage, we have learned to wonder if any of these boundaries can be codified, or if should be treated as fluid and moving and nascent, resistant to be written down and numbered?
Fiona and I are also mommy bloggers, who have come to this art in later days of parenting. We have adult children. Ethical conundrums are rich when it comes to writing about our children who also happen to be legal adults. But we think the ethical gauze and labyrinth surrounding writing about underage children might be just as dense. We think that bloggers work their way through the labyrinth using sense, and we want to see if some of that is shared or held in common. Or is it a matter of making personal and situationally-responsive decisions?
In the year ahead we hope to meet many bloggers, here on our blog, and by going to their blogs.We are excited to encourage conversations about limits and freedoms of expression. It’s a big topic!
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