September 2011
6 posts
Anonymity... A time and a place.
I’m not quite sure if I speak for all my fellow friends and classmates when I say this, but I was brainwashed to believe that doing or saying something in an anonymous manner was usually not a good idea. Here’s why:
As a junior high and high school student, I was forced to sit through long assemblies at school that were all about the “dangers” of the internet. First it was...
Internet Persona vs Your True Self
I recently read an article by Virginia Heffernan called “The Old Internet Neighborhood” (see below for link to article). I can’t say I cared for much of her article (considering she spent the majority of it complaining about the decline of message boards), however, she quoted a woman named Lori Leibovich (founder of Kvetch) who stated, “Social networks are about...
“Social networks are about broadcasting. More about your persona than it is about...”
– Lori Leibovich
from the article “The Old Internet Neighborhood” by Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times (Opinionator)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/remembrance-of-message-boards-past/
“Learners are doers, not recipients”
– Walter J. Ong “McLuhan as Teacher: The Future Is a Thing of the Past”
“If we start to believe that the Internet itself is an entity that has something...”
– Jaron Lanier, quoted in “Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert” (Maria Bustillos)
http://www.theawl.com/2011/05/wikipedia-and-the-death-of-the-expert
“We create machines in our own image, and they, in turn, recreate us in...”
– David Lochhead, quoted in “Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert” (Maria Bustillos)
http://www.theawl.com/2011/05/wikipedia-and-the-death-of-the-expert