Thursday, January 27, 2011
blog #2
reading the culture jam chapters and watching has been enlightening but i have had ideas of the subjects they talk about. In culture jam the chapter post human the writer talks about how people have been so immersed in technology that they lose actual social interaction. During the chapter the writer talks about MUD an online type game that people can create an avatar or an online self. MUD players see their online self as a 'realer' them then in actual outside life. "MUD addicts end up inhabiting a world somewhere between real life and virtual life. It's too real to be a game, yet too artificial to be real. They hover in "the gap". The quote explains something that is happening more and more in our generation with games such as 'World of Warcraft', Mabinogi, and other Role playing games. People are being more involved in these games and feel that their real selves are better represented in these games. The people i've watched in the Youtube videos that were posted on D2L also strengthen this 'theory' that 'addicts' feel more comfortable online where they hide behind a screen and pixel/text instead of going out and living life fully. There was a movie i saw called Ben X this movie was about a student who had social problems and acted very awkwardly while in the real world, granted the student had a mental disorder yet awkward none the less, Student spent most of his days online in a game called archlord in this game he was consider a hero, his true self, he considered this game his real world and the real world an alien landscape. I have a question to ask, have any of you created or witnessed an argument online (youtube, blog, forum, 4chan) for the sake of creating an argument? the reason this happens is because of none confrontational arguments. people seem to grow balls when they cant be seen. This also shows how people show there true selves over the net. This must stop, their should a line when one should know when and where online personas and real life personas meet and end.
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"people seem to grow balls when they cant be seen."--yes, interesting "Internet" phenomenon. Why is it that we feel more confident when we're behind a computer screen?
ReplyDeleteI feel "we" become more confident because being behind a screen you can say whats on your mind without having a physical person in front of you. This lack of human interaction actually lets people feel safer about saying morally wrong things or saying something down right rude.
ReplyDeleteI often wonder how someone can feel more real in a virtual world than in reality...Is it because they're better accepted in said virtual world than in real life? Or because the virtual world is "better" in the sense that it is less complicated and lets someone experience fantasies that they would otherwise never encounter?
ReplyDeleteThat is so true though, people get way too comfortable and say whatever they want, express whatever they want over the internet. They live in their virtual world because they can't confront people to begin with. How they live in their virtual world, I don't know.
ReplyDeletePeople do have more "guts" when they are online. In the documentary when the gamers are yelling at the "farmers." But if they ever met the people in real life he wouldn't talk to him that way!
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