Blogging all started with people writing about their daily events, the mundane, the menial, and the down right uninteresting. Somehow these Blogs gained a following, and the hobby and action of blogging became mainstream. Today there are far more interesting and diverse blogs, and blogging has even become a legitimate form of communication, publication and journalism. In Mark Treymayne’s ‘Blogging, citizenship, and the future of media’ a pivotal essay by Sharon Meraz, discusses the importance of Blogging. Meraz illustrates the importance of the Blog as anew media source. Disputing the idea that the Internet could be harbouring a singularity of privileged voices, Meraz reveals the Internet and Blog to be a true form of democracy. Blogs are online forums where politics, society, and still the mundane can be openly discussed.
In 'Films from the Margins: Women, desire and the documentary film in India' Swati Bandi states the following:
"Feminist documentary film can be described as explicitly engaging in facilitating articulations of feminist desires for women's autonomy and control over their bodies, voices and therefore stories."pp 45
I feel that this understanding of both the 'Blog' and 'Feminism and Documentary' as new, affords the opportunity for both areas to exploit each other. the Blog and the internet are a perfect vehicle for this previously forgotten and omitted topic, vocalising and making it visible.
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