Saturday, March 27, 2010
Final Paper Longer Proposal
I am still wrapping my hands around what specifically this paper should focus on and I believe with your comment Julie, I am going to argue that our reliance, or society's reliance on technology has allowed us to become so disembodied from ourselves and each other that we have given ourselves a false sense of what a community really is. Yes, there are two cases of community, those online, and those we have in real life, but we are losing sight of the fact that our real life communities need the focus more than our online communities do. If we don't realize that the latter is being neglected, the more we dive full force into our personal representations online, the further away we get from actually being connected with a real human. I will not be arguing that technology is bad, because i love it, i will focus on the fact that when technology, when and if it does, disappear, we will lose all skill to interact with one another and we will be alone. i am going to use Deborah Lupton, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Donna Haraway, Michele Willson, David Tomas, David Bell, Kevin Robins, Maria Bakardjieva. My citation list will be following shortly.....
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You are making generalizations and prognostications that you won't be able to support if you go down this path.
ReplyDelete* I cannot evaluate your sources as they are not citations nor do they have annotations providing a summary, assessment, and reflection regarding the source and its place in your work (see assignment sheet).
* Contact me via e-mail if you want to work out any aspects of your argument or organization along the way, or to evaluate scholarly sources (provide citation and annotation in the e-mail), or to bounce presentation ideas off me.
Hmmmm, "I am going to argue that our reliance, or society's reliance on technology has allowed us to become so disembodied from ourselves and each other that we have given ourselves a false sense of what a community really is." tells me (Brent) that some people think they will die without being connected and are losing sight of the people next to them. A good example is a teen or early 20 something with unlimited text on their plan. They kind of lose sight of the people at the table with them. Even if it's only for 140 characters.
ReplyDeleteWhereas "we are losing sight of the fact that our real life communities need the focus more than our online communities do." This might be a generational gap. My family members that are all over than I am don't text or they text very little. Me, I average 4,000 a month. I topped out at 5k texts in November. Same for voice minutes though too. If it weren't for my physical community though, this last year of my life wouldn't have turned out the way it did.
I think the saying "love finds you where you are" might apply. If a real life community doesn't exist for someone then they will seek out a community. We all want to belong. Same for virtual communities I suppose, there are just a lot more to choose from.