Our presentation topic is Online Communities. We will talk about the reading from Sherry Turkle, ‘Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace’. This article is all about multi-user dungeons (MUD) and Turkle concerned about many of us appear to be choosing to invest ourselves in unreal places.
As the development of technology keeps going on, human want everything that commutes right into our homes and depend more on virtual reality. Turkle challenged that this kind of desire will make our real life even more separate because people no longer have social contact. She pointed out that virtuality tends to skew our real experience in three ways. The first one is Disneyland effect. Another effect of simulation is that 'the fake seems more compelling than the real'. She lastly pointed out that 'virtual experience may be so compelling that we believe that within it we've achieved more than we have'.
We agree with Turkle's point of view that although virtual environments are valuable, we still need an authentic experience of self.
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We have raised two questions after our presentation. Our classmates had a well participation. Thanks a lot. Through the discussion, we found that some of them spend whole day online. They usually read the news and play online game. Most of them think it is a problem because it may harm our health.
Our classmates also discuss both positive and negative side of virtual community. The positive impact is that we can easily keep in touch with people through internet. For example, we can find our classmates or friends who have already lost contact with them through facebook. However, on the other hand, if we spend too much time on internet, we may have lesser time to communicate with people face-to-face in real life. It may be a problem because virtual reality seems to make our real life even more separate.
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