Thursday, February 12, 2009

On "Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: Cyberculture Studies 1990-2000"

Since the popular inception of the Internet, many people have tried to characterize how it affects people's lives. While I enjoyed the concise wrap-up of the recent history of the many facets of online interactions, the topics switched quickly and I never felt like I got the "whole picture" idea of what the author was trying to convey. Some parts of the paper seemed to be interjected with a strong stance on a particular part of the Internet.

I enjoyed the "Discoursing Cyberspace" section, that began to unravel the "frontier" metaphor. This really interests me because of the rule of "cyberspace" part of the project I plan on working on.

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