After several weeks’ discussions in class, I should reframe my questions posted in the beginning of the class. I think my posted questions appeared to be broad and vague, and my reflections looked narrow-minded. My main problem of thinking about an issue went to that I tended to be confined by the access of that issue. For instances, if we were talking about identity, all I can think are associated with identity. (If it’s about information society, I think the social aspects of ICTs within this frame.) What are wonderful about the course could be the various angles to look at the relationship between human and the Web2.0; thus, I am learning new ways of seeing every week.
This week, the topic is place. I have never conceived the ICTs by place. What is a place? What can be a place? In which way we are situated in the world. Is internet bringing a new layer/ dimension to the spatial cognition? It is interesting that Leander and Mckim say that place came from social construction. A place has meaning and being through people’s memories and emotions attached to it. People could have very different stories of a place, but they could reach commonalties sometimes. People know their own existence through interactions: with people, with environment, and with the place they are in.
It is intriguing that Leander and Mckim categorize the online and offline relationships. A. Experiences in cyber space are often not seen as exceptional by participants. B. Participants make meaning of their experiences across online and offline. C. Internet-based social practices shape offline practices of identification. D. Online technologies extend rather than replace offline relationships. E. Offline places are embedded within and reproduced in cyberspace. F. National identities are practiced in cyberspace. G. Online and offline space are dynamically co-constructed and interpolated. These are simple but also profound. People live with a unified cognition—in tangible and intangible ways.
The other two readings focused how different ethnic people represent themselves online and offline. I am enchanted with how many social aspects I can look into with the main topic of ICTs.
Going back to the 3 questions, I would ask 1 more:
Identity seemed to be an important issue. Can I tell a good story in describing people’s spatial, national, international, self identities in a world comprise real and virtual areas?
This week, the topic is place. I have never conceived the ICTs by place. What is a place? What can be a place? In which way we are situated in the world. Is internet bringing a new layer/ dimension to the spatial cognition? It is interesting that Leander and Mckim say that place came from social construction. A place has meaning and being through people’s memories and emotions attached to it. People could have very different stories of a place, but they could reach commonalties sometimes. People know their own existence through interactions: with people, with environment, and with the place they are in.
It is intriguing that Leander and Mckim categorize the online and offline relationships. A. Experiences in cyber space are often not seen as exceptional by participants. B. Participants make meaning of their experiences across online and offline. C. Internet-based social practices shape offline practices of identification. D. Online technologies extend rather than replace offline relationships. E. Offline places are embedded within and reproduced in cyberspace. F. National identities are practiced in cyberspace. G. Online and offline space are dynamically co-constructed and interpolated. These are simple but also profound. People live with a unified cognition—in tangible and intangible ways.
The other two readings focused how different ethnic people represent themselves online and offline. I am enchanted with how many social aspects I can look into with the main topic of ICTs.
Going back to the 3 questions, I would ask 1 more:
Identity seemed to be an important issue. Can I tell a good story in describing people’s spatial, national, international, self identities in a world comprise real and virtual areas?
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