I'm sort of still working out the kinks in this initial proposal, I know I want to focus on the discussion about the blurring of our two worlds: our virtual lives and our real lives and our embodiment, or disembodiment in each. I know this is somewhat broad, but I am having a somewhat hard time pinpointing my real argument.
My main focus will be on, and will incorporate a lot of Stone's concepts/ideas, how we have to keep the distinction between the two. I want to argue or show the importance of being human and what that entails, and how we are risking to lose more than gain if we completely lose our "humanness" if you will, by being completely engulfed in virtual reality and that we absolutely need a specific distinction, and that there should always be one, between the two.
I know this may not be what you are looking for Julie, but I am definitely looking for comments and suggestions on how to better formulate this paper.
Thanks!!!
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Adriana,
ReplyDeleteThis sounds very interesting I will think about what you posted and come back around with some ideas later this weekend. I am in agreement with you on keeping our humanness intact as we venture into the virtual world. Are you also going to touch on communities as well since that seems to be so closely related to the embodiment of ourself into the virtual world.
thanks nancy...i'm almost positive i will touch base on the whole "community" thing, it seems to go hand in hand, and i would love to hear your input or suggestions...!!!
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost, you have set up a binary ("human good!" basically), and since you will not be able to prove or disprove anything that is a binary or is a "what if", and you aren't to do a report (e.g. "here's what I found, the end" or "here's what Stone says, and I agree/disagree, the end"), you must seize one very specific thing/case/example, link it to something else, and argue for the validity of the observation you are making.
ReplyDeleteYour proposal should have included what you plan to do (including which general topics from the course that you are going to link together) -- this means details and some depth -- what you plan to argue (this could include the argument or the research question in advance of the argument, with an hypothesis of the argument you potentially foresee), and how you plan to support the argument (which theories do you see yourself using on either side of your argument, etc).
All of those elements should be present in blog #9, yet with even more depth than I expected for blog #8, since you will have annotated sources and know how you will be using them in your argument.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro
ReplyDeleteyour idea reminded me of this video when you mention "human-ness." It's funny, I found it when I was looking up Fahrenheit 451 videos. I had to buy the book after reading the first few articles in this class.