Intriguing paradox - the idea of two competing ideas which are both true, it is a metaphor way. The Internet makes us all look all over the universe, the television broadcastings are being watched at the same time all over the world, people‘s culture become similar. There are some global advantages, Internet is like a global village, you can publish your own website, the availability of technology is an amazing change for example blogging and making your own web sites and it is so much easier to publish them on Internet. Television is just watching, but Internet technology is more accessible to mass audience, there can be a two way communication on Internet with interaction and feedback.
Internet really communicates in between multiple people for example, sound waves that are the biological nature of face to face communication, verses chatting on computer. How distant education is becoming so popular, more and more multimedia is coming, some people do their groceries on - line because it is a convenience for them at the same time their social skills. People seem like physically isolated, but they are mentally alert, people have the freedom to do things different ways.
Television is really a one way conversation, it’s centripetal force moves the viewers to watch the events, which drives you in one area for in doors, on the other hand Internet is out doors, it’s centrifugal force takes you to on-line cyberspace, you are reaching the outside world, take you to different web sites and if you keep on clicking it take you further out, which expands you to learn several other topics. On Television you can change different channels and watch but on Internet you can go to so many places.
As mentioned by Mark Federman our digital identity, like web , weblogs, web page postings and other digital media makes several digiSelves. Our identity in the cyberspace can bring us into identity thefts through different database . According to the Cultural Paradox article,” the loss of our digiSelf creates the McLuhanesque anti-environment that enables us to take notice of its manifest reality”.
3 key ideas in the readings are:
1.digiSelf
2. Internet
3.Television
Discussion Questions:
Are the digiSelf really not secured?
Is this really true that the use of media is stopping us to think?
Are we loosing the natural art, due to the digital innovations?
This week’s presentation gave me a very thorough picture of internet, cyberspace and
In future I have to be very careful about digiSelf and identity thefts.