‘Space’ and experiences online
June 30, 2007 Victoria
How could I call my experiences online? I can call it “practices in space”, or even in cyberspace I suppose to think now. Earlier I did not care about how to identify the process of being online or what actually the space is. “…Cyberspace is not a void. But neither is it like geographical space – it does not “contain” places. In fact it does not contain anything at all. Instead, cyberspace is a metaphor that conjures up an image or an idea of the potential of information or telecommunication networks which are formed by computers linked by telecommunications,”- says Rob Shields (Unspun, 2000).Personally I think that time, which I spend in Internet could be called like spent stage in another tense, in other place, space, because the world of Internet and real life are different. Surely, both of them have some things in common, but the same time… You never know with whom you’re actually chatting. Nowadays, thanks for progress, many people have Scype and built-in cameras in their computers, so they can see each other and talk to. But for short time communication, possibly, in the same chats and forums, everyone could think up himself or herself again and again, playing and fooling another people. That’s fun from one side, from another it is about uncertainty and desire to escape from reality. My own experiences online are not so huge or broad. It’s narrow, and I do not want it to expand. Firstly, because I prefer not virtual relations. Relations in real life for me are more valuable. Secondly, usage of Internet for me is limited by searching news and some useful information or that is in my interest. Thirdly, now I am posting entries on my personal weblog and group weblog and what excite me the most is to answer on comments and thus way to debate and discuss topics. All in all, I could and simply call all these experiences belong to space, another space, and another dimension.
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