Twitter V.Newspapers/CBC Content

If I met Chris Anderson in real life I really don't think we would be friends. Personally, and I hope that I'm not in the minority in this- I do not want my news to come from a friend or neighbor. I don't trust the grapevine. There's a game called telephone where those playing sit in a circle and the first player invents a phrase then whispers the phrase to the player sitting next to him who then whispers the phrase to the person next them and so forth. The point of the game is to see the difference between the starting message and what the message becomes when it's been strung through a series of ears and whispers. Typically the message has been completely changed. Why would we play telephone with the news? As it is I try to be slightly skeptical of mainstream media, be aware of biases but by reading news blogs and twitter accounts it's like asking for their opinions on the news not the news. I don't want that. I checked out Wired News and here are their leading headlines: "Judge Orders Cops to Stop Harassing Superheroes", "Kryptos Artist Launches Website to Receive Solutions", and "Boast the Most Perfect Roast Turkey". At the bottom of the page was the only headline that looked like actual news "New Afghan War Plan: 'Awe and Shock'" which I decide to take a look at. Mostly the article (written by Spencer Ackerman- a qualified journalist who once worked for The New Republic) dealt with the use of tanks in Afghanistan. The article quoted The Washington Post and mentioned a CNN interview. I don't understand how Chris Anderson can say newspapers and media are a barrier when they fuel his own website.

As far as the "How the CBC Thinks about Content" it's a very idealistic view. I wish that's how the media worked but it just doesn't. Newspapers and news shows work for a demographic that they will try to appeal to. If they're trying to sell papers that people will read then they will write what people will read. There's no perfect news source.

news paper and twitter

Mr Anderson came off rude, why is he being such a jerk in his interview? And yes media and news mean something still today, the news keeps people in sight of what is going on in the world. I personaly love watching the news although some of the stories are lame at times. I dont think getting news from twitter and email is the same thing as watching the news or reading the news paper to find out information. How old is Mr. Anderson anyways? i no twitter facebook and all those things are very popular but they still dont compare to the news. Twitter is just thoughts i would think. and just sentences not paragraphs. I dont have a twitter i think its just like having a status on facebook. on twitter you can only have 140 charateristics sometimes that is not enough to explain what is going on in the world. I dont get how this man can say all these things. he said news papers arent inportant yes they are some people dont like the read online and would much rather read a piece of paper. My dad reads the paper all the time, he loves it. I believe doing stuff online can be harder at times. what if your computer is down and cant get internet how are you going to read the news then. yes blogs and such are ok to talk about topics the news covers but i still believe you need the news and newspaper the world is advancing but some things we should still use and have. we can make the news and the news papers better with all the technology we have. not everyone has internet so how would they get the news if they didnt? this article kinda mad me mad the way he was. this guy is wrong

Library

The quizzes were very interesting. I have never seen the * thing they were putting after words though, i was confused about that but i kind of picked up on what it meant. I think i did well with how to word things when looking them up online, you have to word them so you get the best possible answers to your questions you are trying to figure out. I was also confused by how to find books in the library and i was not sure how the library sets up there books. the quizes did help though and i learned a few things. They were a pain trying to do but then someone told me i didnt have to do them anymore so that mad me happy i hate taking quizzes like that i would much rather just be lectured about it.

cbc's thoughts on content

I liked a lot of what was said in this article. I completely agree that the content part of the model should come after the real life is reported exactly how it happened, regardless of the medium. However, every medium is giving it's biggest effort to be the most entertaining way of delivering news, this way people will want to tune into them and get all their information from them. I think that every medium is too focused on being number one in their field that it's become more important than the actual message. I think each medium mentioned (t.v., radio, and internet) has it's positives and negatives. With T.V. you see with your own eyes what's happening and can interpret it your own way; however the scene that is chosen for you to view can easily be manipulated and leave out a lot. WIth radio, you have the option of turning to a certain channel and finding someone with your similar viewpoints to explain a certain event; however they're focused on getting more people listening to them so they could leave out a lot of information and overrun it with entertainment. The internet is nice because you can see an article, and then people's posts of their views on it and you get a much more wide variety of different viewpoints on the same subject; however with so many different opinions and views on one thing, how do you know which one to trust and which is the most credible? I thought it was interesting that written word (newspapers, magazines, etc) wasn't even mentioned, when at one point this was the only way to get news. Overall, i would agree with the idea that the medium is the message.

twitter or newspaper

I think that Chris Anderson is kind of cocky and i didn't like how he started off the interview by making the interviewer seem stupid. I started to like him a little better as the interview went on, however I'm not sure i completely agree with everything he had to say. I think for people of my generation were used to getting news from our friends or things we see on the internet, but i think it's rare that we hear this news before it's in the media. I think that it's in the media, made into a big deal, then talked about enough so that people start mentioning it on their facebook and twitter pages. Maybe with the people that he knows and tweets he follows he gets that information early, but I know my friends don't know stuff like what's going on in iraq before the news. Also, even after he receives that information via twitter, people post their opinions on this news, they're not just posting the facts and what's going on, it's a bias look at what's going on and that can get information very distorted and leave a lot out. However, one could argue that certain news stations and reporters also have a bias outlook on that kind of information so it's hard to compare. Overall I think that eliminating the media all together is a dumb idea, not everyone uses twitter and facebook and not everyone even has a computer. Access to a newspaper or a T.V. with a news station is way more realistic then everyone looking at facebook status updates. A world with no news reports or news articles at all is going to leave people very much in the dark about what's going on in the world and will just leave more room for personal beliefs and interpretations of what's going on which will ultimately cause many fights and no real knowledge of current events.

library modules

The library modules were helpful giving a lot of information about how to improve how you search something. Normally when I am researching I will only try one way to phrase what I need and the modules showed that order, and wording and a few other tricks that can make your search way more beneficial. It was good to learn these things but I honestly don't think I will change the way i search for things, which is dumb but I just am so used to doing it how I already do. Also, I have done research papers before in high school and I have a lot of experience with MLA formatting and citing so I think I knew a good amount before, or at least had a small basic understanding.

research

The whole library research thing is a little overwhelming to me because I've only been to our library maybe twice and it's kind of confusing. However i have done research with books before and the modules definitely helped i'm sure i'll be able to figure it all out fine. I've done many papers with MLA formatting but I still have to look back at how to do it every time. I've never enjoyed citing my papers or any extra work for papers, I just like to write the thing and get it over with. I understand that it's an important skill to learn although I most likely wont be writing any papers as a fashion design major but it's a good thing to know how to do. I've done a bunch of research papers in high school they're definitely the worst papers to write but with the help of the modules and my background knowledge it shouldn't be too rough.

Twitter

Okay, this interview annoyed me a little bit. I just got the feeling this guy was cocky and annoying. ha, but overlooking that aspect of the interview I saw some truth in it. I never read the newspaper, and I never have... but I personally think that the reasoning for this is the generation I come from. Were the technology babies, like he said in the interview it is not like I have to go looking for news it always has just come to me. I personally do not use Twitter, but I do have a facebook and if anything big is going on in the world I can promise you that a minimum of 300 people are going to make it their status. Plus we have all these links on our e-mails today that give us the headlines, and if they catch your eye you click them and read them for free. I believe the newspaper industry is going down slowly. I mean I work at a McDonald's who used to sell USA today papers, but we made so little money on it they just stopped. My parents no longer get the newspaper because you can just go to NewYorkTimes.com and get everything you need for free, up to the minute, and it's even in a better format. So I guess what I am saying with this is that even though the man in the interview annoyed me, I completely agree with him. The medium in which we receive our news is changing, and I do not think many people have a problem with that.

Research Reflection

Since I was one of the people in the class who already had to use the library modules and quiz this semester I pretty much have it down. I unfortunately had to sit through not just one, but two sessions in the library along with those modules for other classes to make sure I understood them. Do not get me wrong, it was nothing bad about the librarian but I mean having to sit through a hour presentation by her twice is not what I call fun. I come from an extremely small school, where I honestly did not have to do much of anything that I did not want to. So research papers were not a very big thing, but of course my first week of college I had two that were due. I pretty much have the whole system down. Sometimes just the fact that I have 10,000 results to go through at once is a little overwhelming but other than that it seems like a piece of cake.

Research

I am going to be completely honest here when I was in school I was never really good at researching information and all that fun stuff , but when I reached my senior year things started to get much better. We had a research project to do my senior year and we had to site everything in MLA format and if we did any of the citing wrong we would automatically fail and would not be able to graduate and then I was nervous. But in the end it turned out perfect and I had done everything correctly. That project had helped me out alot on my researching and made me more prepared for college. I had already read the library modules and they have helped me out so much more. The modules made everything I had already known about citing so much more easier and clearer and I feel now more confident in my writing then I ever have before.

Twitter

I agree with Chris Anderson. I thought this interview was very interesting and well spoken. I believe that Mr.Anderson is right. When you have some source of info like twitter you could keep up very everyone and everything that is going on. When there is a huge crisis or problem in the world like a bombing or something drastic like that you will most likely hear about it on twitter first before it even get to the news. I believe that news is being shut out more and more but it is still being used every single day. The people that use twitter and such every single day and every single minute of there lives are the people that were brought up with all this modern technology, but if you were born way before this new technology you may not be interested in twitter. You may want to watch the news and read a magazine to find out what is new in the world because you do not understand twitter. I personally don't use twitter I never have and probably never will but I have used facebook and other news medias like that to keep up with the news which in this case is kind of the same thing. I think what Mr.Anderson was trying to say was that slowly and slowly each day more and more people are turning to the news media online more than they are on tv in which I think is absolutly true, but I also believe that the news on tv will never fade because there are some people who need that news and need it to stay.

Tweet

There are many wise, interesting points in this article that are enticing to me from the very beginning. I personally dislike reading newspapers and try to avoid news channels as much as possible for similar reasons as Anderson. I do not like how the media translates what is happening in the world around us. There is so much focus on events that are irrelevant to my life that I find myself uninterested. I relate to how Chris Anderson uses his Twitter account for news updates; I use Facebook similarly. These social networks are not only used to keep in touch with friends and stay updated on the lives of those friends, but it is also used as a reliable source of information. Instead of listening to/reading the news, reading status updates and checking newsfeed provide reliable sources of “news.” It is easier to pick and choose what it is true and what is not based on the source. Also, people talk about issues that effect my life because I am in theirs. Another valid point in the reading is that just because this generation has relied on printed newspapers, magazines, and journals as their primary informant, does not mean that it has to last forever. Anderson compares Apple to the businesses that will open to be adapted to the use of the internet. The way that Apple has produced iPods that have replaced record industry labels, new businesses will rise using solely the internet and will replace printed works.

Anderson Interview

I thought that the interview with Anderson was very interesting. At first I thought he was very outspoken and kind of rude. After going through the rest of the interview I started to think he was more and more right. I thought it was very neat that he said he does not read any of the news. He just hears about the news through others or on the internet on Twitter. I would have to say that I probably read the paper once every three month, so four times in a year. I believe that it is much easier to look at the news on the internet instead of picking up a newspaper and going through all of the articles. I think that it is a positive alternative to have so many different ways to find out about the news. I am not always somewhere that I can get to a newspaper so being able to get on the internet and look up what is going on in the news. I believe that the internet has done nothing but improve the way that news gets to the rest of the world.

Twitter

The interview that Anderson gave was very interesting to me. I didn't know that it was possible to know about whats going on in the world without watching the news. I thought that it was very uncanny of him to have twitter as a reliable resource. Alot of sources that are found on the web are not reliable. Relying on a social networking site for information is a risk of being misinformed. People tend to have the ability to change valid information into fictional renditions. You cannot rely on every thing that is displayed on the net. He says that people on twitter care about what goe on in the news. This may be true but the thing is, people can put facts into opinionated inferences. I don't advise this way of getting information but you can attain information in wh atever way suits you personally.

Research

Research is actually something I can do pretty well. My high school had a well known English department that made us write a lenghty research paper every year. We had to pass the paper with a B- or higher to move on to the next English course. I understand citing,formatting, and the MLA style pretty well. The library modules kept my attention because it asked you a question right after you read a little bit which helped me understand better. I learned about how it is impotent to state main topics find synonyms and combine ideas using AND and OR and to refin my search my using the main part of the word.

Twitter

Personally this interview was intriguing to me because Chris Anderson truly thought that Twitter was a reliable source to get his information from. Personally, I think the way he answered questions made him seem arrogant and ignorant. Maybe that is because I have the complete opposite opinion of Twitter. He says that the people on Twitter care about what is going on in the world and they tweet about it. This may be true; however, there are just as many people tweeting about what food they had for breakfast. I would much rather rely on a well respected magazine or newspaper to report the world news. I agree that technology is a huge part of our world today, but there are more substantial Internet sites then Twitter to get news from. I believe that Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are used more for social entertainment rather than serious facts. When I think Twitter, my mind immediately creates an image of pointless status's about peoples day and messages much like you would find on AIM and Facebook. Majority of people would think this, especially young adults. The older generation may not even know what Twitter is. Anderson states that the words journalism and media do not exist anymore. I find this ironic considering he works at a magazine-a form of media. My major is magazine journalism so i guess I would strongly disagree with Anderson on every level.

newspapers and CBC (BG)

I think with everything we have discussed, the interview with Anderson, fits right in with our discussions. it is difficult for the paper business to keep up with the advances in technology when it comes to research and news. So many people are turning to computers to look up the weather or to find out spots scores. while it might be easy to get caught up in the cyber world, you got to be extremely careful. its kind of scary how sucked up we can become with the internet. then all of a sudden all your information is on the web for anyone to get to. i have the feeling that eventually people will start losing contact with the real world. while the cyber is convenient, it still can be addicting and a safety issue. while papers are still around and are a reliable way to obtain information, eventually theres going to be no way it can keep up with the cyber world.

Twitter (BG)

I found the interview with Mr. Anderson, very interesting. i have never read anything like this about an interview. I find it interesting the way Mr. Anderson knows about the news. He dosent read about it, instead he hears it from others, or via the web on twitter. I guess for the most part it makes sense. Technology these days is advancing and is making it easier to keep up to date with the news on the go. but at the same time its difficult to find a site that is reliable. but once you find a source, its very easy to just look up the news instead of sitting down and reading a news paper. i think though that what it really comes down to is how do you like to know about the news. Would you rather sit down and read the paper, look it up on the web, hear about from others, watch the news on tv, whatever works for you. everyone has a different way of getting information.

100 Word Reflection (BG)

I understood alot of what the modules were talking about, thanks to the college writing class i took back in high school. So some styles like MILA came fairly easy to me. Searching for books online can be confusing but these modules were really easy to follow and helpful. i do feel a little better after going through these modules but i feel like if i were to go back i would forget everything. I like how they were interactive, so they kept my attention. I thinks its good that Kent State has such a huge library, and i feel the best way to do research is to just go in there and do it. but at the same times its nice that there are modules available to help you along the way.

100 word reflection

Thankfully I already had some knowledge of these library modules due to the fact that we read almost all of them in FYE class. A few things I learned was what truncation was and how the most common form of it is in the form of an asterisk. I also learned the certain steps that you take when you are finding research or a research article which was very helpful because I actually had a lot of trouble last time I tried to do that in my intro to PE class. In my opinion even though I have read the library modules twice I still think trying to find a book is somewhat still a difficult task. I always seem to forget a step in the process but I guess I will get better with more practice. Finding books online at Kent and finding books in the library is so different then back in high school. It is all a learning experience I suppose though.

Twitter

I think the twitter article concerning the interview with Mr. Anderson was actually pretty interesting. I really did enjoy reading it because it was easy for me to understand, at least for the most part. I actually think it is kind of crazy how Mr. Anderson does not read the newspaper or watch the news and relies on the news coming to him via other people, the web, and twitter. It is understandable though that those are easier sources to deal with but first off, personally I would not trust twitter with information because anyone can post anything. Second, I prefer watching the news because I can rely on the information being mostly correct due to the pictures and videos that are usually viewed on the television. Same with reading the newspaper. I have to see it to believe, coming from a trust able source of course too. My learning styles also have to do with visual. If I just listen to the radio for information it will not stick in my memory as much as it would have if I watched the news. I also told myself I would never ever get twitter because I have always thought it was stupid, in my opinion that is. But everyone has their own personal way of retrieving news and information. It is really whatever works for you whether it is by reading the paper, reading the web, twitter, or watching the news.

newspapers and CBC

I think a lot of what we already have learned in this class makes the interview with Anderson such an obvious view. Newspapers of course are having a hard time competing with all the news access people can get from online. It isnt a negative thing if newspapers will stop existing at some point because people arent less interested in getting the news. Really people are interested in getting the news faster, and the internet allows this. People are able to access news stories that interest them and only those which interest them at a much faster rate and much easier AND for free. Using the internet as a source for information is just an all around win situation. Newspapers can't compete with the ability to search and therefore strictly read about one topic.

CBC claims that the medium is the message and that each of the media, tv, radio and internet have unique ways of providing information to their audience. CBC worries that the internet is going to provide people with poor content and that it will inform no one. I dont know how they think this is possible. The articles arent poorly displayed via the internet they are displayed with a much easier way of accessing them, and deliver just as much information as media that was previously preferred before the internet.

100 word Reflection (Kevin Farr)

I learned a lot from the modules. They definitely taught me how to go to the library and find a book. Even though I have never done that before it will be something good to know for our last paper since we do need three sources. Also already using MLA in high school the MLA module was pretty easy to fly through for me, But most of the other ones i had to read through and take the quiz once or twice to pass it. But I do understand everything in the modules and think they were very helpful.

Twitter (Kevin Farr)

The interview with Mr. Anderson was really interesting, I enjoyed it. I don't really hate watching the news, I think that it is still very vital. You may be able to get information from many different mediums now but I still find the newspaper and the news very important. One of the posts on the blog talks about how the newspaper is getting the boot and I don't think that is true. At home I got the newspaper everyday and I would actually read some of it. And here at kent state they have their own paper and i see people grabbing it all the time. So apparently the newspaper isn't really getting the boot. I do think that there are other way of getting news, take twitter for example. If it 100% possible to get news off of twitter but you have to follow a news stations twitter feed. Most people using twitter wont do that though. They use twitter to follow their friends and their favor celebrities. Now don't get me wrong, I think the fact that many other mediums are supplying news and other information is very handy in todays society but i would still sit in front of the tv and watch the new for a little bit or pick up a newspaper. I dont think they are getting the boot just yet. But a couple years from now i don't know. They just could be extinct. But for now I think they are very useful.

TWiTTER & CBC - JK

I really liked the interview with Mr. Anderson. I like that people are taking what people say seriously even if it's not in the news. Honestly, I hate watching the news. Sure, it's great to know what is going on, but the news is just pure negativity. I realize that people want to hear about bad news, but some things are just so irrelevant to my life. It’s crazy to think that newspapers are becoming not longer needed. They were the first thing to spread the word and now we have so many other means to do this that they are getting the boot. It shows just how far we’ve come and just how much we are developing. I think it is completely possible to get news from Twitter. Sure you might not hear about the war is you're following Paris Hilton, but following other people can definitely put you in the know. I like that we can get news from different places.

Radio.TV.Web. They are all really completely different. I think television is the least effective when it comes down to it. On the radio, sure you don't get a picture, but you can call in and voice you're opinion. Web is the same way with all the websites and blogs that you are free to subscribe to and comment on as much as you want. I think that TV is best for entertaining.

CYBERSPACE - JK

I thought this reading brought up a very interesting point. Even though I don't think it matters whether you regard cyberspace as a place or not. I wanted to talk about the "ISN'T IT ALL HARMLESS?" It's scary that people are spending so much time on the internet or in "cyberspace" that they lose almost all contact with the outside world. It's becoming such a problem that people need to go to support groups. I understand that some people might find the idea that they can be who ever they want appealing, but it's really scary. People don't need to go out there and find someone to date, it's only a click away. Online dating isn't rare anymore. Virtually anything can be done from the computer and that is making us all hobbits. You need to have interaction with other people, that's the way it has always been. It doesn't seem healthy to not interact socially in someway. Take the movie Surrogates for example, in the movie everyone lives through a surrogate, meaning they sit in their apartment and control an avatar. They lose physical contact with one another and people don't even have too look like their surrogates. The end of the movie shows that we need person to person interaction and living through our computer just won't cut it.

As nice as technology is I think we all have to remember that it's not our lives. Our parents and grandparents lived without all these advances and so can we. Cyberspace is certainly spreading but we shouldn't let it take us over.

REFLECTION - JK

Honestly, using the library for research seems over whelming. There are so many floors it seems like a lot, not to mention there are multiple libraries throughout the campus. After going through the modules I feel a little better, but I feel like if I were to go in there I would forget everything I just learned. The modules were however put together very nicely. I liked that they were interactive because that kept my attention. I think the best way to get used to researching in Kent State’s very large library would just be to go in there and do it. It is nice that they have modules to show important elements of research.

skill modules

Researching in the library has always been very easy for me. I have been pretty good at figuring out what articles are real and what articles are fake. Throughout high school I have used the Info Ohio page, which is like going through the library to help find research for a paper. I never really use books, I tend to stick to articles online since I don't really look through books or try to find articles from books unless I absolutely have to. From the modules I learned how to use keywords when making searches I never used and/or to search for things or put anything in parenthesis. I don't really have any questions or concerns when it comes to doing research on the internet or in books.

100 word reflection library and research Kyle Baker

Generally when using the library I always have trouble finding books. Even after the fact that i look them up in the system there seems to be some issue. When doing research assignments i am able to use scholarly articles to my advantage through the use of google scholar and ohiolink . These always provide me with a good source of information. Generally in high school my weaker point wasn't in finding the Information it was citing it and using it appropriately in my text. I find it hard to transition from a fact from an article to just explaining or trying to tie it back to my point. Also when it comes to research and writing a paper i never know when to paraphrase or use a direct quote from a source.

news

When first reading the article "Who needs Newspapers when you have Twitter?" I began to think just from the first question that the article may be long, but short at the same time if that makes any sense. I thought the article would be multiple questions (making it long), but short because the person receiving the interview wasn't sounding very cooperative. I had to stop and think whether I agreed or disagreed with the statement that media and news are terms of the last century and barriers of this century. I think to some degree that could be true, especially when you watch the news sometimes the news of who is Hollywood is getting married or breaking up overshadows who locally was injured or anything bad that happened to them. I would 100% agree with the fact that if the newspaper disappeared right now entirely, a majority of people wouldn't notice. I for sure wouldn't and I know we only receive the newspaper at our house unless they give it to us for free, if we have to pay for it my parents don't want it since they never read it. Going back to words of last century I think people that possibly died or whatever that haven't been with the world since the last century would also be lost in this century with all the short hand words and sayings that many people say today. I however disagree with him when he says the news on TV is not popular anymore just like newspapers. I like having the news on at 6 so I can in a half an hour catch up on everything locally and in the world without having to read through sections and sections of the paper. I would agree in the second article that running news stories on the radio doesn't make much sense because you don't get the pictures to the story like you would when you watch the news. I like to see the images that go along with the story instead of just hearing it. It also wouldn't make that much sense to show a radio report on TV because then you're just looking at a TV screen just listening and not looking at anything. I think news reporters should make their main focuses of communicating news to the TV and online. Most people that listen to the radio are wanting to hear music not news or talk radio.

"How the CBC feels about content" and "Who needs a newspaper when you have twitter"Kyle Baker

In the article who needs newspaper when you have twitter i disagree with various things that were said. I feel that in this article Chris Anderson shows how lazy society really has become. Whenever you read a newspaper information doesn't just come to you. Usually you have to read through the entire article to find one thing you are looking for. In the process of doing this i believe that an individual can accumulate a lot of knowledge that is unexpected. By Anderson just getting things through twitter it is taking away from the reading process. He's just receiving data and trusting that its all correct from the source. And since he is getting most of his information through twitter it drastically effects the number of sources being used. Usually the more sources you have the more credible a piece will be, and i feel that he is getting away from this.

In the article "How the CBC feels about content" they talk about how the medium changes the message. I strongly agree with what they say about some things just need to be seen rather than hearing them or reading them out of a newspaper. Certain mediums may get you to feel certain emotions that help you decide how you feel on the topic at hand. If you change the medium in often cases you change what is being said.

cyberspace reading

I think that this is a stupid argument. The internet is a thing it's not a place. You can go to different sites and communicate to other people in other places but the internet itself is not a location. In Koppell's No "There" There essay, he makes it seem like he believes that "cyberspace" is an actual location; however, he points out himself that the phone and the postal system can do the same communication and neither or them are considered to be places. He just proved that his point is wrong right there. People can definitely get wrapped up in "cyberspace" and I can see how certain people could see it as another world but I just don't feel the same way. You could then make the argument that video games, movies, cell phones, i-pods, and so many other things are other world's then as well. I think that having regulations and a government-like management of the internet is ridiculous. Obviously there are special cases in which what you look at should be regulated (i.e. child pornography sites, hate crime sites, etc.) but to say that those sites being regulated is like having a government for the internet, is way over the top. I can see how people who play games like "second life" would see the internet as another world, but it's just like playing a video game. You might meet people in the game, but it's not really them it's their avatar there's no reality it's all pretend. When your done you log off and your back to your actual world there's never a time that you leave and go somewhere, it's all just a mental state. That's like saying when you dream you go into another world. People are too reliant on their computers if this "cyberspace" idea get's any more in depth, eventually our world is going to turn into everyone being inside on a computer, only interacting with people playing this "second life" game and real human interactions will disappear. I don't really even understand why it matters so much if some people say that being in "cyberspace" is like being in your own world, I might disagree but you can call it whatever you want it doesn't affect me. I don't understand why that's a debate or issue unless it gets so extreme that our world becomes like how I mentioned. If some people can't meet other people in real life and feel better doing it over the computer and think that that's their real world go for it.

Cyberspace (Blog Week 12)

The reading on "Cyberspace" was actually quite interesting, since I "log" onto to Cyberspace everyday, I related to it very well. I agree that Cyberspace isn't a physical place and there aren;t many boundaries but it is still a place in its own way because you can do many things without people telling you what you can and can't do, like in the real world. Although you aren't there physically you are there participating in what you are actually looking at or doing. Just because you can't use your senses to be a part of that place doesn't mean you aren't really there. Cyberspace is infinite and that's what is great about it. There are so many things you can do in cyberspace including chat rooms, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and company websites. Oh and Twitter. Cyberspace even has it's own language because the internet is put together by special encodings to make things the way the look and sound and how they work. There is no real distance between things in cyberspace because your always a click away from something or someone, literally. Whereas in the real world you are have to drive or walk to a certain place to actually be there. Cyberspace can save time and money in almost all scenarios.