In my opinion we have always shown degrees of ourselves in different characters at all times – virtual or in “real life”. There is no separation of the two. But are we really? Bell and Bauman argue that “virtual membership is elective and selective” (Bell). Making this virtual membership no different from RL communities-we can select what we are part of and have to be accepted by selected community. For example in a RL community, a student at a university is part of the university community but in order to be part of a university athletic team that student must make the selection to tryout for their team and also be accepted and pass their tests into the team to play. See because even if I wanted to part of something sometimes you have to get an approval from that group and that includes paying or passing to be able to join and speak their lingo.
The image projected by the individual changes as you change your interaction with a certain community because of the specified language of that group it may not be just the language it self it can be broken down even to the vocabulary of a doctor as an example. I think that if you’re part of an online community you get to choose and be chosen as well for participation.
The view of an online community as being a peg community is probably true because both virtual and RL communities use the same process for participation but one is virtual and the other is in physical form.
I think I will use the following for assignment # 2:
http://www.craftforum.com/?gclid=CIW6ou2tjKQCFRL4iAodkhsbHQ
http://www.getcrafty.com/
http://forums.craftzine.com/
I chose these because I LOVE to create things and I have never participated in any online communities for crafters. Now I can take time and analyze these three to see what the similarities and differences are.
Bell, David. The Cybercultures Reader. 2nd. 1. New York, NY: Routledge,
2000. 254-63. Print.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
DTC355 Blog Post 3
Addidas
I choose this superbowl commercial to use as my example of affect transfer.
At the beginning of the video there is a brief focus on a guy wearing Addidas branded clothes but it does not feel forceful on the viewer to buy Addidas apparel. Instead they use humor and interest by the quirky event that is happening. They use originality as their main focus. Then at the end of the clip they say "Addidas" followed by "celebrate originality". This add does not tell you to buy their stuff instead they use the viewers emotional response from the unrelated event and then transferred to the product being sold, simply showing an image of their repetitive logo apparel throughout the clip, and then followed by images of the emotional event leading to their brand as the finale. “They expect that the series of messages are intended to work together constructing an overall image and set schematic relations that will convince the audience member to take the desired action.”(Hill 36)
Cited
Hill, Charles A. "The Psychology of Rhetorical Images"
Defining Visual Rhetorics. Ed. Charles A. Hill and Marguerite
Helmers. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
http://superbowl-ads.com/article_archive/?cat=81
I choose this superbowl commercial to use as my example of affect transfer.
At the beginning of the video there is a brief focus on a guy wearing Addidas branded clothes but it does not feel forceful on the viewer to buy Addidas apparel. Instead they use humor and interest by the quirky event that is happening. They use originality as their main focus. Then at the end of the clip they say "Addidas" followed by "celebrate originality". This add does not tell you to buy their stuff instead they use the viewers emotional response from the unrelated event and then transferred to the product being sold, simply showing an image of their repetitive logo apparel throughout the clip, and then followed by images of the emotional event leading to their brand as the finale. “They expect that the series of messages are intended to work together constructing an overall image and set schematic relations that will convince the audience member to take the desired action.”(Hill 36)
Cited
Hill, Charles A. "The Psychology of Rhetorical Images"
Defining Visual Rhetorics. Ed. Charles A. Hill and Marguerite
Helmers. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
http://superbowl-ads.com/article_archive/?cat=81
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
DTC 475 Post Two
Digital Divide
Waschauer suggests that the original term is "the notion of a binary divide between the haves and the have-nots". But he completely disagrees by stating that the "Digital divide is marked not only by physical access to computers and connectivity, but also by access to the additional resources that allow people to use technology well." (Warschauer)
I completely agree with him. This digital divide is not measurable- making it difficult to say exactly what it is. Waschauer mentions samples of different situations of the difficulty to get immediate access to the Internet; It could be simply the lack of time conflict, tool resources, and/ or the lack of literacy, making it more of a gray shade area than just black and white issue.
2. Can you think of any other metaphors besides the office
metaphors used with Windows and Macintosh operating systems that
might be better? How come these might work better? (150-200)
I really can’t think of other metaphors. I do understand the idea behind the status of class between the two operating systems; At a small scale there is a divide in the preference of operating system based on the standardized English language literacy capacity of the user. In other words classifying that English is the only way and the right way.
Cited
Warschauer, M. (2002). Conceptualizing the digital divide. Retrieved August 31, 2010 from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/967/888
Selfe, C, & Selfe, R. (1994). The Politics of the interface: power and its exercise in electronic. Electronic Contact Zones College Composition and Communication, 45(4), Retrieved from http://www.paulmuhlhauser.org/475/Readings/interface.pdf
Waschauer suggests that the original term is "the notion of a binary divide between the haves and the have-nots". But he completely disagrees by stating that the "Digital divide is marked not only by physical access to computers and connectivity, but also by access to the additional resources that allow people to use technology well." (Warschauer)
I completely agree with him. This digital divide is not measurable- making it difficult to say exactly what it is. Waschauer mentions samples of different situations of the difficulty to get immediate access to the Internet; It could be simply the lack of time conflict, tool resources, and/ or the lack of literacy, making it more of a gray shade area than just black and white issue.
2. Can you think of any other metaphors besides the office
metaphors used with Windows and Macintosh operating systems that
might be better? How come these might work better? (150-200)
I really can’t think of other metaphors. I do understand the idea behind the status of class between the two operating systems; At a small scale there is a divide in the preference of operating system based on the standardized English language literacy capacity of the user. In other words classifying that English is the only way and the right way.
Cited
Warschauer, M. (2002). Conceptualizing the digital divide. Retrieved August 31, 2010 from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/967/888
Selfe, C, & Selfe, R. (1994). The Politics of the interface: power and its exercise in electronic. Electronic Contact Zones College Composition and Communication, 45(4), Retrieved from http://www.paulmuhlhauser.org/475/Readings/interface.pdf
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