Adelaide's reflective post on this course

Before attending to this course, I had no idea about cyborg and believe that technology is positive to human being. However, after twelve-week lectures of this course, I have learned the concepts of cyborg and cyberculture in different perspectives. Technology not only brings us convenience in our daily lives, it also blurring the boundaries between gender and class as Haraway mentions. At the same time, some scholars worry that technology may harm human being like Frankenstein's monster. In fact, when I come across this course, I found that I have already become a cyborg unconsciously! Since technology has invaded as an important part of our lives, machines such as computer, mobile phone as well as television are associated with us. The issue of virtual identities and communities interests me a lot because it is closed to our real lives. Surfing on the internet and form communities in cyberspace like facebook and online forums becomes our daily activity, and I believe that it would be interesting to see how people construct their virtual identities after going through this topic. Although some concepts like cyberpunk and postmodernism are abstract and quite difficult to me, the weblog helps me to learn effectively. As we share what we have learnt as well as our opinions on particular topics, we can learn from each other and even have a in-depth understanding.