This Week in Meta

This is something I wrote in 2014
Why The “Is This Meant To Be Private?” Question May Be The Wrong Question
https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1335600.html

This is me in 2015 (writing about the context of Tumblr in 2013)
2013 Posts About Tumblr As A Peformance Space

"Why or why are we always trying to use coded and obscure methods that have little chance of penetrating a wider audience to communicate issues that are clearly so important to us?. on LJ many of us finally started adding notes on our profile page or sticky posts because even though we thought everyone!!!! should understand what was so clearly obvious!!! and basic human respect and courtesy!!!!...surprisingly, not everyone did grok what we were wanting.

Security through obscurity is futile. Communication through osmosis equally so."
https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1394075.html

In 2007 I was reminding myself that the only way to reduce visibility was to friendslock
https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/393769.html

From 2015: Temba, His Arms Wide
https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1393336.html
A while back I did a series of posts about how technology has shaped – and continues to shape – our fandom culture: here, here and here. The short version: We do not use technology, technology uses us. And I am not alone in blogging about this.
http://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1377960.html (2014)
http://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1380349.html (2014)

and a fan in 1997 talks about the worry about fandom use of the Internets
https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/post/111533702336/on-fandom-migration-to-new-platforms

Now we jump back to 2015
Fandom As A Contact Zone
https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1393744.html