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Thursday, March 25, 2010

The Final Essay Project assignment 2nd time around

I decided to write on cyber-identities on the internet and in cyberspace. Their are several writers that have written on the changes that have been made in cyberspace when it comes to identities of those that enter the internet whether for business or for fun. David Bell has written on the subject and so has Sherry Turkle. I would like to show how we loose ourselves in VR (cyberspace) compared to the RW (real world) reality that we live with having no choice to live in either now and be in everyday.

The arguement is that the cyberculture community connects the digital world with the real world and has today become a culture in its own. The proposal of my final paper, is that the real World, cyberculture community's and the internet is a race of individuals and even though these individuals are connected or related, showing how these are different and separate communities in themselves and we as cyber-surfers need these to stay individuals in each world or VR or RL community that we live in.
Each identity whether 'online' or 'offline' is divided by the individuality available in each separate world or boundary and technology available at this time.

2 comments:

  1. This sounds like a recapitulation of many of the things we have read -- except for the part about "race" which is just fundamentally not something you can argue. But that there are hybrid communities? We've discussed that. Individuality in both spaces, and differences? We've discussed that.

    Summary of observations of what has already been discussed is obviously part of the support for an argument, but it is not an argument. Find something very specific and make a claim why it is so.

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  2. I don't have an email but here are some research links that might help.

    WSU Library info
    http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/wcl/libraryaccounts_WC.htm

    JSTOR (this is where I find scholarly journals/articles)
    http://www.jstor.org/

    WSU Griffin (link to JSTOR)
    https://griffin.wsu.edu/patroninfo

    WSU new (replacement?) for Griffin research page
    http://washingtonstate.worldcat.org/


    I did this a while ago.
    1) I created an account in the WSU library online
    2) Went to the JSTOR page and logged in.
    JSTOR has a lot of scholarly articles to draw from.

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