Thursday, October 4, 2012
Betrayal of ourselves
I highlighted this in Chapter 11. "Online worlds and role playing games ask you to construct, edit, and perform a self. Yet, In these performances, like the performances we saw with sociable robots, something else breaks through. When we perform a life through our avatars, we express our hopes, strengths, and vulerabilities". I think that a lot is wrong with the world today, that people can not express those qualities about themselves in real life but they can online. No one is proud of who they are enough these days to express it out loud. Technology has made it so easy for us to ignore our hopes and strengths and create everything we image in a avatar online.
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I agree what you said about technology making it easier to communicate online. I dont think it is a bad thing for people to communicate with others online, it justs suits them better becuase everyone communicates differently. I do agree by communicating online that the approach is different when interacting with someone online and in person. I agree that people can be happy when expressing what they think out loud, but I think people should commmunicate however they feel most comfortable when communicating with others.
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