Lecture notes from week 3
- Post modern equals a fantastic self.
- Negative effects of virtual world is that we are not connected to our real live selves.
- Do we have a identity or many?
- Experimentation can be found with sexuality, relationships, class, race and gender.
- Key point- disintermediated.
- Non verbal, no smell, touch or feel of emotions or people.
- Free of real life oppressions.
- Technophillic- Poistive/new technology.
- WE can each personalize our experience of life.
- Empowered self- Lots of choice.
- Modern media- modern man.
- New media- postmodern man.
- Hyper reality of simulations NOT representations of reality.
- Even in real life our identites are not fixed.
- Can 'discover' more intent and fullfilling selves.
- Diegesis means world created by text
- Experimnental identities are often stereotypical (offensive) socially regressive.
- Post modern technophiles- see the web as seeting us free to be post modern
- Critics of technology- see it as decreasing our real life in various ways
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