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03
Sep

Evolving private identity, publicly, online

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Some thoughts about identity, online.   Some netizens project their offline identity into online spaces. They mirror their so-called real lives by using their real names, writing factual and descriptive profiles, posting photos of themselves with family members, in common daily situations.   Others create new identities. They use nicknames or pseudonyms, limit information about themselves to words which are […]

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14
May

Will we be connected or conquered by new media? An apprehensive yet hopeful glimpse into our future through the posthuman eyes of WALL-E

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The following is an essay written by Virginia Streit as part of course work for her Master of Communication degree. The brief was to use a work of fiction to explore our uneasy relationship with technology.   With its strong environmental message and anti-consumerism theme, Pixar’s 2008 robot romance WALL-E appears at first to be a […]

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