http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2007/08/02/bedtime-stories/ playing with the faeries since May 2005 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:47:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2007/08/02/bedtime-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-60404 callan Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:02:49 +0000 http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2007/08/02/bedtime-stories/#comment-60404 .... I think that the participatory culture and interactivity of the tech-renaissance has birthed a new type of spectacle, the "virtual spectacle," in which a construct replacing an actual event or experience is now entirely constructed in online code with increasingly less and less relation to any sort of existing reality. Virtual participation may be democratic, but is likewise isolating because we are given the option of regulating our own virtual reality (not like with the goggles i.e."The Lawnmower Man") and presenting experiences via flickr/myspace/youtube/blogspots as we want them represented... It is kind of like living in "SECOND LIFE," only we believe that it is real and we don't look like "TANK GIRL" or a sexy cyborg. In participating in the online-information exchange-renaissance we become increasingly singular and isolated into our own separate virtual spaces...right? something like that. …. I think that the participatory culture and interactivity of the tech-renaissance has birthed a new type of spectacle, the “virtual spectacle,” in which a construct replacing an actual event or experience is now entirely constructed in online code with increasingly less and less relation to any sort of existing reality. Virtual participation may be democratic, but is likewise isolating because we are given the option of regulating our own virtual reality (not like with the goggles i.e.”The Lawnmower Man”) and presenting experiences via flickr/myspace/youtube/blogspots as we want them represented… It is kind of like living in “SECOND LIFE,” only we believe that it is real and we don’t look like “TANK GIRL” or a sexy cyborg. In participating in the online-information exchange-renaissance we become increasingly singular and isolated into our own separate virtual spaces…right? something like that.

]]> http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2007/08/02/bedtime-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-56441 subVerse Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:23:42 +0000 http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2007/08/02/bedtime-stories/#comment-56441 Thanks for this Chris. Great post! Thanks for this Chris. Great post!

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