Week Three. Topic One.
Cyberidenities without even thinking about it in any great detail can not constitute to a "normal social reality", as communities, opinons and so on-are based on so much more than text (or pictures) on a screen.Lister et al believe that these identies are simply an extension of out society, and not a seperate one. I believe they fed into eachother. Emotions one may feel online will effect "real" life and vice versa. And this is the same as online relationships.
People can not switch of feelings and emotions between their online and offline selves if they take both seriously. There is evidence to suggest that online relationships do work in the real world, when the people finally (if ever) meet. Meeting people online is not something I would personally do, as I never have had any need to use that method of meeting a mate. I do think it could work for some people though.
People act as "nomads" online, wondering through various networks, forums and so on-meeting people from all over the world-so in some ways, one may see this a better than normal relationships as there is people from all over the world, with various interests just there for someone to meet. However, I believe some feelings can only be developed through face-to-face communication. So I think that the meeting of people online is an interesting and novel and in some ways practical way of meeting a partner or friends, but this should be contiuned in real life.
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Thursday, 5 February 2009
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Online Personas
Week Three. Topic One.
Assuming on online persona is something I do not know alot about, mainly because I do not have alot of contact with forums and chatrooms and so on. When I was younger, I sometimes used forums and message boards, but I never thought of changing my persona, I think this was possibly to do with my age, and the internet being fairly new. One can change their identity from changing their age, to their job, to even if they are male or female. I think ones dentity being completley hidden could encourage people to change things, one can even be more open about their real selves (I believe usually in the case of sexaulity).
Bolter and Grusin (Lister et al:2007)believe that chatrooms and so on do nothing but serve the "cultural remedation of the self". Turkles (Wired 4:01. Who Am We?1996) agrees with this, writing that computers not only change our real life (ie.helping with school work), but are changing us as people, either by us changing outselves online, or changing our selves by what we experience online.
The choice of a picture (or avator) to represent us online means that we can choose anything from a picture of us to a picture of a cat, we have the choice to hide. Most forums and even social networking sites promote the use of nicknames for screen-names, these can persuade people to change or hide their real life selves. For example, I, Ellie McCullough, can be "washingmachine64" or even "Mike Smith".
Online personas can have some good points though, as one does not judge others on appearance or race or gender if its not disclosed. One is judged on their peronality (assuming thats not made up as well). Stone (Lister et al:2007) sums this topic up well by stating that the "physical facicity of human bodies is changing", we are now becoming anything and anyone we desire online, something that is not yet possible in the real world.
Assuming on online persona is something I do not know alot about, mainly because I do not have alot of contact with forums and chatrooms and so on. When I was younger, I sometimes used forums and message boards, but I never thought of changing my persona, I think this was possibly to do with my age, and the internet being fairly new. One can change their identity from changing their age, to their job, to even if they are male or female. I think ones dentity being completley hidden could encourage people to change things, one can even be more open about their real selves (I believe usually in the case of sexaulity).
Bolter and Grusin (Lister et al:2007)believe that chatrooms and so on do nothing but serve the "cultural remedation of the self". Turkles (Wired 4:01. Who Am We?1996) agrees with this, writing that computers not only change our real life (ie.helping with school work), but are changing us as people, either by us changing outselves online, or changing our selves by what we experience online.
The choice of a picture (or avator) to represent us online means that we can choose anything from a picture of us to a picture of a cat, we have the choice to hide. Most forums and even social networking sites promote the use of nicknames for screen-names, these can persuade people to change or hide their real life selves. For example, I, Ellie McCullough, can be "washingmachine64" or even "Mike Smith".
Online personas can have some good points though, as one does not judge others on appearance or race or gender if its not disclosed. One is judged on their peronality (assuming thats not made up as well). Stone (Lister et al:2007) sums this topic up well by stating that the "physical facicity of human bodies is changing", we are now becoming anything and anyone we desire online, something that is not yet possible in the real world.
"Open-Architecture"
Week Three. Topic One.
The internet can be described as "open-architecture" for one main reason. The "open-architecture" concept ws thought up by Licklider in 1962, and is primarily to do with the flow of information. The theory of "open-archietecture" is that data flows freely from everywhere in the world-there and back. Previous "old media" simply send messages one way: from the insitution through the tv or radio (and so on) to the audience. The internet provides more of a circulation of data-we provide data, send messages and so on, and the internet provides us with what we need back.
The internet can be described as "open-architecture" for one main reason. The "open-architecture" concept ws thought up by Licklider in 1962, and is primarily to do with the flow of information. The theory of "open-archietecture" is that data flows freely from everywhere in the world-there and back. Previous "old media" simply send messages one way: from the insitution through the tv or radio (and so on) to the audience. The internet provides more of a circulation of data-we provide data, send messages and so on, and the internet provides us with what we need back.
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