Thursday, February 7, 2008

Two older pieces

From the discussion: Here is the text of Julian Dibbel's A Rape In Cyberspace, published in 1993. The most interesting thing to me, which we didn't get into in class, is Bungle's reasons for his offensive (to the rest of the group) actions. His words: "I engaged in a bit of a psychological device that is called thought-polarization, the fact that this is not RL simply added to heighten the affect of the device. It was purely a sequence of events with no consequence on my RL existence." Very different than our ideas about real life and virtual life today, and very indicative of his character both on and offline.

Second, the fun piece: Red vs. Blue's PSA, Internet vs. Real Life. Also a bit dated (who here voted for Nader?), but much of it is still applicable.

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