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March 5, 2008 by gypsysavage
The following are questions are intended for members of the Rowan graduate course, Writing for Electronic Communities.
On Bush: n the author’s quest for the “great record”, he virtually prophesies the creation of the internet. Relative to writing for electronic communities, what invention do you propose that would enhance our record of knowledge and our ability to communicate efficiently (your invention can be as crazy or impossible as you like). I propose that we invent a lens with which we can project our ideas onto a medium, and communicate at the speed of thought. In terms of individual achievement, check this video out (dude’s a nerd but he’s awesome). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Reponse: Thinking man and the sum of his knowledge is a composition on the quest to organize the great record of knowledge. Certain rhythmic representations to identify similar character parts are old associations we have relied on to warn us to stay clear of perilous doom of unreliability that is a possible threat to development. Capturing or imaging spirit scenarios in our psyche is an advance arm of intelligence whether the process is for past enhancement or newly developed future promise.
On Dibbell:1. After a virtual rape, Dr. Bombay’s community scrambles for identity, defined solely by the execution of one of its members, the perpetrator. Just like the author, I have a hard time taking this bollocks seriously (it did take multiple violent rapes for the VR community to become more self-aware). But she does bring up a central point: where lies the theoretical boundary, all but non-existent for non-MOO-users, between RL and VR? Consider this:Where virtual reality and its conventions would have us believe that legal and Star singer were brutally raped in their own living room, here was the victim legal scolding Mr. Bungle for a breach of “civility.” Where real life, on the other hand, insists the incident was only an episode in a free-form version of Dungeons and Dragons, confined to the realm of the symbolic and at no point threatening any player’s life, limb, or material well-being… (Dibbell) 2. Within this virtual community (of practice?) psychopaths and newbie’s are the two types of users who view MOO as a place where they can act without censure. The potential anarchy of MOO is what’s most appealing. The rest of the users, says Dr. Bombay, “Tend to make the critical passage from anonymity to pseudonym, developing the concern for their character’s reputation that marks the attainment of virtual adulthood.” So, answer me this: what’s the point of a virtual existence in which you have unadulterated freedom at your fingertips if all you’re going to do is be as self-conscious and restrained as you are in real life? What’s the point if you are going to employ government and regulate the goings-on of the community?
Response: If you look at it in this way you will find a certain peace of mind moving a society where rules of the road are encouraged.
On Turkle:4. Can you think of problems with an alternate version of your “self” displayed in virtual rooms or in video games? In other words, in generations to come, will a human being’s identity be so fragmented that the self will be utterly indefinable? What would be the consequences of turning ourselves over to the “psychology” of a computer, as Turkle puts it?
On Kelly:5. Kelly says we little notion of what the web really is. Can anyone really define it (for real, this isn’t rhetorical), keeping in mind what it could become by 2015?
Response: The Kelly package was a very nice chronology scenario of those facts for a future perdition. We have to read patterns to find meanings how the demands for new kinds of life are expected. In his history he unfolds certain realities that the “hyperlinked world was inevitable “and his future is a social genre expectation.
Back Yard Songs
1. what do you think that the impact of this technology will have on the power that academia?2. What kind of influence will they have if the only thing necessary to become a creative writer is the ability to “creative” “writes”? Response: It is comparable to a you tube that reaches out to students to watch television productively, informing them of a new intelligent influences underlying in parts there that prepares a way of creativity and not the opposite. 3. Also, in literature classes, back in the day, professors used to spend a lot of time explaining interpretations of certain works of literature. Only very motivated students would take the time to go to the library, read the journals, and other reference material to see if those interpretations could be refuted. Now with hypertext, the interpretations and refutations might very well be located right next to the text. How will this affect the way that professors will now teach literature?Response: They will have an opportunity to steer clear the cliff notes for a new craft of a faster valid and reliable system of data to impress student’s future betterment. Second, there were some terms that I didn’t understand. What is a “Track Back”? What is a “card metaphor”? What is “banality”? What is a “Borghesian Alpha”? What is a “rhizome”?
- A Trackback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
- An i-card is a rectangular icon displayed in the user interface of an Identity Selector (formerly also known as identity agent) that represents a digital identity–a set of claims about some entity (typically a person, but it could also be an organization, application, service, digital object, etc.).
- A principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- Genre of genuinely Web-native fiction
· Rhizome Vocabulary/Our system of classification consist of terms that artists assign to their work. Artists choose from Rhizome’s vocabulary of new media terms as well as adding their own terms. When new terms reach a certain level of popularity they become part of Rhizome’s vocabulary
Third, if students are going to be using hypertext 3.0 as part of their literature study, what reading strategies do we need to teach them in order for them to be able to read the text and navigate the text of texts like Great Expectations or any of the other texts in the canon? Will the canon texts now be used less in favor of text that are not on hypertext?Response: I think this a boundary where places like the Gutenberg press will become an exploration site for developing new forms from dital work from a vast public domain. In this way we will be able to manage new technology and create a new interest in traditional works of art. Fourth, how d o we reach the “Deep Web”? (Is that anything like the “Deep Magic” in the Chronicles of Narnia?) Seriously, it seems that all the good stuff is there. I know I’ve often tried to get copies if the Courier Post online, but can’t do it. I know that old versions exist because I remember seeing them on microfilm, but maybe they do exist in the “Deep Web”. How do we get there? Response: Deep Web a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.Fifth, and how about Foucault? I don’t know about you guys, but I really never liked Foucault. He always very dull and difficult to understand, but Landow’s discussion of Foucault’s networking as having no top and no bottom actually made sense to me. What do you think?Response: Foucault plumes observation Sixth, how about this quote from Derrida found on page 113? “. . . Writing must thus return to being what it should never have ceased to be: an accessory, an accident, an excess.” How about that as a writing prompt for next year’s HSPA? What do you think about that?Response : Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular) appear to shift and complicate in meaning when read in light of the assumptions and absences they reveal within themselves. Jacques Derrida coined the term in the 1960s, [1] and proved more forthcoming with negative, rather than pined-for positive, analyses of the school.Seventh (I KNOW, I was supposed to stop at 5, but I want to get this one in.) Hypertext lends itself to collaboration, but are there going to be problems deciding who gets the credit? Also, at what point does “collaboration” become “plagiarism”?Response: I think there is a rule board to decide that matter. The process by which people/organizations work together to accomplish a common mission is not a false presentation of someone else’s writing as one’s own. Its a case of copyrighted work or work for hire not the individuals own property,
