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 [...]
Archive for August 17th, 2007
What Sociology 3740 Taught Me
August 17, 2007My Online Character
August 17, 2007Today, 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!
August 17, 2007Do 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, [...]
