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SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages 107-121Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0038026117699540
Keywords
authenticity; blogs; class; ethics; morality; moral reflexivity; self; self-telling
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This article is a qualitative exploration of how contemporary morality is understood and constructed using Australian blog and interview data. A key finding is that the bloggers articulate morality as an actively created and autonomous do-it-yourself project that prioritises the subjective authority and authenticity of the self. While the blog stories do lend support to charges of narcissism, this is partly a product of bloggers misidentifying their own evaluative practices. In the interview accounts they tend to describe morality in subjectivist terms - I do what I believe/think/feel is right - but in their blogged accounts, they highlight a relational and responsive morality which attends to the Other and the situation. Further, the article highlights how the bloggers are producing a particular classed model of selfhood and moral reflexivity where they have access to the resources to self-tell as choosing and self-responsible subjects.
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