After the course, I had come up a question: Are we become as a cyborg now? I think the answer is yes; we had become as a cyborg , as Cyborg is an integrated entity of machine and human. In nowadays technology can be found in everywhere, even on your body such as your mobile, i-pod, electronic watch, etc. Moreover, in the medical point of view, technology can replace the lost functions of human’s body such as robotic legs. It can replace the human legs which had lost in the accident. Therefore, we are relying on the technology very much and it seems we can’t still alive without technology. It can’t separate the human and the technology, as it seems we had integrated together. Because of that, it may cause the problem as technology may become too powerful and over control. As we are fears towards technology because of the well developing of the technology in nowadays, that is a contradiction to take a balance between them.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Jessie's reflective post
The use of weblogs for learning purposes is very effective. Through the weblogs, we can share the assignments with peers; discuss the unit topics and readings; respond or comment classmates' opinions. It is very convenient that we just sit in front of the computer and thus can gain a lot of knowledge and information.
I think I'm a cyborg. In fact, I prefer face-to-face communication rather than CMC. However, as the rapid developments of technology and people have lesser time to see each other, we have to communicate with people through technology and it is the only way to keep contact with our friends. I'm not sure it is good or bad. I'm quite contradictory to this.
I think the course is interesting. It helps me think deeper about the relationship between humanity and technology, as I have never thought this kind of issue before. However, some of the readings are quite difficult to understand.
I think I'm a cyborg. In fact, I prefer face-to-face communication rather than CMC. However, as the rapid developments of technology and people have lesser time to see each other, we have to communicate with people through technology and it is the only way to keep contact with our friends. I'm not sure it is good or bad. I'm quite contradictory to this.
I think the course is interesting. It helps me think deeper about the relationship between humanity and technology, as I have never thought this kind of issue before. However, some of the readings are quite difficult to understand.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Daisy's Reflective Post
After attending the course, I realized that I have become a cyborg unconsciously. Technology has become part of my life. The first day I do is to press the “on” button of my computer. I spend more than ten hours in the Internet, to read the newspaper, bid the things I like on ebay and get the information I want. You can see that many people are using their i-phone to connect to the Internet or communicating with others in the MTR. I can’t imagine how the world would be if we cannot connect to the Internet one day, especially when the due date of essays is coming, I think the consequence would be horrible. All the things, including the banking system, stock market, and the whole economy of the society will be lose control. We should think about are we relying too much on the technology? Is it a time to pull out myself from the virtual world?
Although there are some topics very difficult, some are still very interesting such as video games and online communities. There are many stereotypes embed into our daily life as well as in video games. I understand human and technology is inseparable nowadays and we should be aware of the side effects. Or one day we could do nothing without the help of technology.
Most of us own a weblog and it is becoming more common. Through using the weblogs on the Internet, we could exchange comments and understanding what my classmates are thinking about. Their responses are very useful for me to learn. Also we can have more interaction besides posting our homework. When I have difficulties in one of the topics, I can go to read the weblogs as some of my classmates can give clearer explanation through their post after presentation. As a result, the weblogs is effective for helping me to learn.
Although there are some topics very difficult, some are still very interesting such as video games and online communities. There are many stereotypes embed into our daily life as well as in video games. I understand human and technology is inseparable nowadays and we should be aware of the side effects. Or one day we could do nothing without the help of technology.
Most of us own a weblog and it is becoming more common. Through using the weblogs on the Internet, we could exchange comments and understanding what my classmates are thinking about. Their responses are very useful for me to learn. Also we can have more interaction besides posting our homework. When I have difficulties in one of the topics, I can go to read the weblogs as some of my classmates can give clearer explanation through their post after presentation. As a result, the weblogs is effective for helping me to learn.
Eileen's Reflective Post
From the subject name “Self. Net”, it seemed to be a very difficult things. But after twelve weeks lectures and tutorials, I think that it is not as difficult as imagined. It is just talked about the technology around us everyday such as video games, culture jamming and virtual community. It helps us to understand more about the negative and positive impact on technology which we may not know before.
Writing weblog become more popular today. I think it is very convenient for us to know others response, feeling and information about a specific event. Also, it functioned as dairy. We can get some interesting story and information about other people. But in this course, weblog become a tool for us to exchange our knowledge. For example, all of us post our webliography on the weblog, we can see that each of us have different perspective although we may do the same question. To a certain extent, it helps us to widen our horizon.
I believe that I am a cyborg. It's so hard for me to exclude technology in my life. Technology invaded our lives from different aspects. Undoubtedly, technology gives us so many advantages, such as easier to communicate with others. However, it made human depend on it. After doing the webliography of Frankenstein, I know more about the relationship between technology and humanity. I think that we are still need to work hard on keeping harmony or equality between technology and humanity.
I really enjoy this course. Through the lectures, different classmates' presentations and discussions, I learn more about how the technology affects our lives. And although I rarely play video game, after my presentation, I got a deeper understanding about the issues of video games. Undoubtedly, technology helped us a lot when we did our assignments for this course.
Writing weblog become more popular today. I think it is very convenient for us to know others response, feeling and information about a specific event. Also, it functioned as dairy. We can get some interesting story and information about other people. But in this course, weblog become a tool for us to exchange our knowledge. For example, all of us post our webliography on the weblog, we can see that each of us have different perspective although we may do the same question. To a certain extent, it helps us to widen our horizon.
I believe that I am a cyborg. It's so hard for me to exclude technology in my life. Technology invaded our lives from different aspects. Undoubtedly, technology gives us so many advantages, such as easier to communicate with others. However, it made human depend on it. After doing the webliography of Frankenstein, I know more about the relationship between technology and humanity. I think that we are still need to work hard on keeping harmony or equality between technology and humanity.
I really enjoy this course. Through the lectures, different classmates' presentations and discussions, I learn more about how the technology affects our lives. And although I rarely play video game, after my presentation, I got a deeper understanding about the issues of video games. Undoubtedly, technology helped us a lot when we did our assignments for this course.
Refection of the course
Before I take this course, I am just a “normal” internet user and think that internet is part of my daily life and help us to connect the outside world. However, this course let me know that new cyber community and cyborg not only brings the convenience, but also brings the side effect to the society. Some scholars mention in the course worry about the harmful of cyber community. Therefore, when I am using the cyber community, some key concepts I learnt in the lecture will come out in my mind. When I visit the cyber community, such as facebook or some discussion broad, I will try to think deeper in it.
In addition, I think the webliography is a interesting task. As other courses will not accept us to is many internet sources as academic references, and we have to find a “real book”. However, this course provide us to take a chance to search some academic sources online, I think this opportunity let us to observe a different side of internet but not only the leisure part of it.
In addition, I think the webliography is a interesting task. As other courses will not accept us to is many internet sources as academic references, and we have to find a “real book”. However, this course provide us to take a chance to search some academic sources online, I think this opportunity let us to observe a different side of internet but not only the leisure part of it.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Anthea's reflective post
Before I attend to this course, I don't know any ideas of relationship between technology and human. I think the weblogs work for me. It is because it reminds me what people talks about in the tutorials. Although we discuss the question and give any comment or ideas in the tutorials, we will forget important points or ideas. The weblogs help us easy to find out what the topic is and help us to do our essay. And we read our classmates' webiogarphy to see other ideas and learn more.
I believe that I'm cyborg. I always play online games and video games. Sometime, I read the forum and talk with my friends in msn or Facebook. So, I'm in the virtual communities. In the past, I could not separate my real life and virtual life. Just played game when I was at home, and stop it when I sleep.
The readings that we discussed in the lesson are useful. I think the topic of culture jamming is difficult. After I read those reading and listen our classmates' presentation, I get what it is. All the topic is helping us to learn more our society.
I believe that I'm cyborg. I always play online games and video games. Sometime, I read the forum and talk with my friends in msn or Facebook. So, I'm in the virtual communities. In the past, I could not separate my real life and virtual life. Just played game when I was at home, and stop it when I sleep.
The readings that we discussed in the lesson are useful. I think the topic of culture jamming is difficult. After I read those reading and listen our classmates' presentation, I get what it is. All the topic is helping us to learn more our society.
Reflection on the course
After finishing all the lessons, I found that I have learned more about what cyborg and cybercommunity are. Besides, I discovered many side-effects and the bad impacts of digital technologies, digital media and online communication. Before taking this course, I think technology is really good for us and our daily lives although it helps us a lot. However, people become rely on it. It is not a good phenomenon and we are facing the crisis that technology takes over human.
Moreover, I think the assignments help me a lot, especially the webliography. We have to search our information online. It seems to allow us to experience the searching journey on the internet which relates to our course. Also, we post our works on the blog is another way that to have opportunity to reach the cybercommunity and have online communication. We can learn during doing the assignments.
Moreover, I think the assignments help me a lot, especially the webliography. We have to search our information online. It seems to allow us to experience the searching journey on the internet which relates to our course. Also, we post our works on the blog is another way that to have opportunity to reach the cybercommunity and have online communication. We can learn during doing the assignments.
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