Communities.... What do you call a community???
Is it a bunch of people who like a particular thing like dogs who paint...
I see that everyone thinks that the fundamental of a community is the people. However, is it possible that a community could be a group of dogs?? Could it be a flock of birds or animals??
The five main points of a virtual community is:
• to be an aggregate of agents
• their exchanges needed to be ‘public’ in the sense that people could enter the discourse
• these exchanges needed to utilize a shared code
• these exchanges occur over time: virtual communities do not arise overnight
• the interactions represented by these exchanges should involve strong emotional investment
Its funny, I read the second one that said 'people'... I suppose that it is, could it possibly be that a a virtual community could be anything else? COuld it be computers. I was just wondering if the way that computers talk to each other, is that virtual community? Are computers part of a virtual community?
Haha, I was just wondering. Feeling a bit rebelious... Does anyone else ever see past just the people? COuld anything else possibly be a community or virtual community?
Thanks for reading my thing?? IS it anything or nothing at all???
I found this weeks reading a bit boring...
Not in the way that Erika read it, because she always manages to be interesting. But that i just dont really enjoy being told about a virtual community, whatever it is, wherever it has been written.
The second lecture of that week was alright. I enjoyed talking and listening to people talk... I liked the many ideas that people came up with!!!
One of the most I enjoyed was the idea that people give more on the internet than they mean to. You refuse to write on your bebo page your address, but you put on a picture with your friends and behind you guys is where you live and people can actually see where you live..
Its interesting in all its creepyness!!! Its scary and weird. Just a bit to think about!
Have a good one everybody!!!!!!!!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Ummmmm, query!!!!
Just wondering, I've been reading all the blogs that people have left and there have been many people who have recapped what they have done in the class...
Am i doing it wrong??? Or is that just another way to do the blogs.
Huh????
Huhh??????/
Am i doing it wrong??? Or is that just another way to do the blogs.
Huh????
Huhh??????/
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Week 3 HACK_TIVISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We just finished having the class a couple of hours ago so I want to write down a blog while its fresh in my mind!
Firstly, i understand I have not written anything for last week, will do that later this week while I can...
I would just like to say that I really enjoyed this lecture, I have always found hacking such an awesome subject! As I was listening to Erika speak (its not rude to use first name basis right?) and I did indeed come up with a few ideas on the topic, something which I am good at when the topic interests me!
When Hacking was first invented or the word was thought of first by some people it was supposed to be something which had no malicious intent! Is it not funny how people have changed over the years. Either I am a pesimistic or over the years it has seemed that people have become meaner or more negative and that we have become people that no longer feel anything can be invented or made without malicious intent!!! Is that just me or do some of you feel that way. I dunno, just something to ponder over.!
Another idea I had thought of was this idea that if hackers had just been left to do what they will, there may have never been black hats (hopefully you all went to the lecture and know what I am talking about!). What I am trying to say is that if hackers had not been trampled on by authorities they may not have become criminals hacking into the system for reasons of stealing and such! Im such a stubborn person and if someone said I could not do it, I would do it! They may have done it for the pure pleasure of having a bit of fun or challenging the system! However, saying that, I guess, there are more people who do it because it is illegal! I mean lets face it, its more fun if someone is trying to stop you! hmmm, is that slightly psycho... hopefully not! Oh, i just totally changed my mind! oh well, not quite sure what I was trying to say! Aaaaaaaaaaaaany, moving on. (totally weak argument I know!)
Another idea I had was the idea that Erika put in my head about thinking of the internet in everyday life rather than it being a separate part of life! I dont know if thats quite what you said but it was something along the lines of internet being part of real life and internet life, that they were one life. (if you dont understand ask me to ellaborate! I dont know if this makes sense here, I have the bad habit of thinking I had left such a detailed message when in fact it makes no sense!)
Well, the point I was trying to make was that I dont agree at all with this statement! My idea is that the internet is something completely separate from real life! I am not being a #*&#% (did anyone pick that up ;)) what I am trying to say is that on the internet you can be whoever you want! If you are in real life you may be some overweight 50 year old man, but on the internet you can be a beautiful 20 year old woman! This idea that people can create whoever they want to be... They can join a cult who hate white people just to see what people are saying about them and be a white person yourself. I am just trying to say that not all people are on the internet will become that way in real life or that it is like their real life! Its just an idea....
Anyway, that is about all I wanted to write for now! Hopefully was an interesting read, if you didnt understand at all that is ok too, just say so and I will try to elaborate.
Or if you dont agree we could have like a blog argument or discussion or debate or something!!!! FUUUUUUN!!!
ANyways, ( I know i say anyway too much, i will try to kick the habit!) Thanks for reading and looking forward to your comments or whatever you want to write!!!) :)
Firstly, i understand I have not written anything for last week, will do that later this week while I can...
I would just like to say that I really enjoyed this lecture, I have always found hacking such an awesome subject! As I was listening to Erika speak (its not rude to use first name basis right?) and I did indeed come up with a few ideas on the topic, something which I am good at when the topic interests me!
When Hacking was first invented or the word was thought of first by some people it was supposed to be something which had no malicious intent! Is it not funny how people have changed over the years. Either I am a pesimistic or over the years it has seemed that people have become meaner or more negative and that we have become people that no longer feel anything can be invented or made without malicious intent!!! Is that just me or do some of you feel that way. I dunno, just something to ponder over.!
Another idea I had thought of was this idea that if hackers had just been left to do what they will, there may have never been black hats (hopefully you all went to the lecture and know what I am talking about!). What I am trying to say is that if hackers had not been trampled on by authorities they may not have become criminals hacking into the system for reasons of stealing and such! Im such a stubborn person and if someone said I could not do it, I would do it! They may have done it for the pure pleasure of having a bit of fun or challenging the system! However, saying that, I guess, there are more people who do it because it is illegal! I mean lets face it, its more fun if someone is trying to stop you! hmmm, is that slightly psycho... hopefully not! Oh, i just totally changed my mind! oh well, not quite sure what I was trying to say! Aaaaaaaaaaaaany, moving on. (totally weak argument I know!)
Another idea I had was the idea that Erika put in my head about thinking of the internet in everyday life rather than it being a separate part of life! I dont know if thats quite what you said but it was something along the lines of internet being part of real life and internet life, that they were one life. (if you dont understand ask me to ellaborate! I dont know if this makes sense here, I have the bad habit of thinking I had left such a detailed message when in fact it makes no sense!)
Well, the point I was trying to make was that I dont agree at all with this statement! My idea is that the internet is something completely separate from real life! I am not being a #*&#% (did anyone pick that up ;)) what I am trying to say is that on the internet you can be whoever you want! If you are in real life you may be some overweight 50 year old man, but on the internet you can be a beautiful 20 year old woman! This idea that people can create whoever they want to be... They can join a cult who hate white people just to see what people are saying about them and be a white person yourself. I am just trying to say that not all people are on the internet will become that way in real life or that it is like their real life! Its just an idea....
Anyway, that is about all I wanted to write for now! Hopefully was an interesting read, if you didnt understand at all that is ok too, just say so and I will try to elaborate.
Or if you dont agree we could have like a blog argument or discussion or debate or something!!!! FUUUUUUN!!!
ANyways, ( I know i say anyway too much, i will try to kick the habit!) Thanks for reading and looking forward to your comments or whatever you want to write!!!) :)
Monday, March 10, 2008
Little by Little
Ok ok, im not one for writing reallllly long blogs and so I am going to do it little by little throughout the day! I left it till the last minute as I was waiting to see what other people wrote so I could get some idea as to what exactly Im supposed to be doing! I mean I read the assignment and all that but seriously it took me a while to figure this all out.
Like some of the other peopel hopefully were I was worried when i first saw that this paper was Cybersocieties. I was actually one of those who had no idea what that mean (hopefully there are more out there). I mean I kind of pieced it together cyber- as in the internet and societies which are a group of some kind is what I would say they were. SO i guess I did kind of know what it was but seriously I had no idea.
THen i started worrying about our lecturer and whether they would be boring (in which case I would have pulled out because I seriously cannot stand boring lecturers), but ours was not so Yay.
But that was my thoughts on this class, something which would have probably been better to have written last week! So that is it for now... I will give you my thoughts on the lectures and readings later in the day! Have a good one yall, :O
Like some of the other peopel hopefully were I was worried when i first saw that this paper was Cybersocieties. I was actually one of those who had no idea what that mean (hopefully there are more out there). I mean I kind of pieced it together cyber- as in the internet and societies which are a group of some kind is what I would say they were. SO i guess I did kind of know what it was but seriously I had no idea.
THen i started worrying about our lecturer and whether they would be boring (in which case I would have pulled out because I seriously cannot stand boring lecturers), but ours was not so Yay.
But that was my thoughts on this class, something which would have probably been better to have written last week! So that is it for now... I will give you my thoughts on the lectures and readings later in the day! Have a good one yall, :O
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