What Sociology 3740 Taught Me

In this class, I learned various networking technology that help us to express our identity. There are MUDs, MMORPG, Second Life, Facebook, My space and so on. We are surrounded with multimedia world and virtual reality world. We can choose the best way to express our identity from the various networking tools. Then, with the [...]

My Online Character

Today, I found an interesting website, “meez” (http://www.meez.com/main.dm). In this website, we can create characters as we like. It is free!! Since my topic of the final paper is online identity, I read many articles by Sherry Turkle that talk about ‘gender switching’ in online world. Therefore, I thought this was a good opportunity to [...]

100th Desire is Really Really Worthyl!

  Do you regard “desires” as the negative things? I had had a negative impression against desires before. Now, I don’t think so at all. I am not a Buddhist. But a Buddhist monk whom I met at a temple in Japan taught me that desires were not necessarily bad. The monk said to me, [...]

Online Identity with Cyber Trance!?

One of my favourite music is “Cyber Trance”. “Cyber Trance” is computer programmed RAVE dance music. In Tokyo, I sometimes went to dance club on Friday night. At the dance club, cyber music was resounding loudly. We could experience the different space and the different feelings there because of the cool electronic music and flashy [...]

Online Dating and Luis Vuitton

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Online dating is one of the serious issues in Japan. It is not rare that a female is killed by a male whom she has known through online dating. Now, even young children are involved in online dating. The middle-aged or older men preferred young children to young adults. One of my friends at [...]

Animated Online Identity

“PUFFY” is my most favourite group. The group is made up of 2 girls, Ami and Yumi. These dingers are famous in Japan for their uniqueness. Their melody of songs is unique and not similar to other singers’. Their dancing is also funny. A few years ago, they became the characters of American animated television [...]

CG versus. Handwritten Animation

I like watching movies. However, I watch only animation movies at the movie theatre in Canada because it is often hard for me to catch up the development of the non-animation movies. Today’s animation movies are making use of computer graphics. These techniques create the very realistic movements of the characters. Some people say that [...]

Bank of Life!?!?

During my stay in Japan, I found an interesting Japanese toy. This toy is “Jinsei Ginko”, which means “bank of life”. “Jinsei Ginko” is not a simple piggy bank. Since it was developed by a toy company, it has the nature of game. In other words, with “Jinsei Ginko”, we can save money while we [...]

Hove You Ever Seen These??

This summer vacation, I went back to Japan. I visited Yokohama (a city) with my mom. Yokohama is a famous city that has fashionable stuffs. There were various shops; clothing shop, furniture shop, accessory shop and so on. One shop that attracted me so much was an electric appliance shop. This shop was selling computers, [...]

Cool Online Research!

The rapid advance in technology has introduced the new way of research. That is online research. What made me feel attractive about the online research are the qualitative data and the high efficiency. According to Adam N. Joinson in the book “Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet”, anonymity in online research makes [...]