Friday, 6 February 2009

Lecture notes - Selves and other online key points and terms

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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