Dr Danica Radovanović je viša savetnica za internet tehnologije, digitalnu pismenost i inkluziju. Viša je savetnica za društvene inovacije i istraživanje na Univerzitetu u Oslu. Takođe, stručnjak je za razvojne politike pri institute PRIO, i članica je IEEE za digitalnu inkluziju. Više:
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Thank you for helping me with my misunderstanding of your views.
We are certainly in agreement.
With older people, I think withdrawal to virtual associations is fraught with some peril, because it encourages physical isolation. I’m hunting for data which can enlighten me in that regard.
Whereas for young people, as you suggest, there are issues, but they tend to be quite different. I’m digging around in survey data about that but have reached no conclusions thus far.
Like you, I have friends who have sharply restricted the range of their online interactions because they were afflicted by hangers-on who posed as valid professional associates.
Some who have recently come to twitter are for that reason extraordinarily quiet in their explorations.
In my own case, I’ve stayed away from Myspace, Facebook and the like, and „backed into“ twitter.
My deliberate strategy involves making no attempt to accumulate a following, or to follow a great number of folks. and to „converse“ with those to whom I feel I have something to offer and who can, if they elect to, respond in kind. Most of my twitter communications are still direct to and from people who came with me. Most have been friends for decades. You and a few others are the exceptions to that rule, and I’m happy with that outcome.
Thus far requests for help from non-clients have been reasonable and appropriate.
Unfortunately, I suspect my experience casts little or no light on the impact of these environments on elderly people who adopt them, or upon the teens and tweens, who in the well-wired world may be adopting them en mass. I hope you and I and maybe some others can sort that out together in time to help accentuate the positives and reduce the negatives.
Hi Dana, completely agree… and topics you are discussing are somewhat part of what I am going through in my research project on Storytelling in Hybrid Environments (http://ecologyofthenovel.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/embodiment-of-stories-in-hybrid-environments/) as part of a more general investigation on The Ecology of The Novel (http://ecologyofthenovel.wordpress.com/).
In my view, development of 3d platforms as Second Life (http://secondlife.com/) or WoW (http://worldofwarcraft.com/) basically implement the virtual reality paradigm, indirectly supporting narrative theories of involvement into fictional worlds (Pavel 1986) by means of «transportation» (Green – Brock 2000, 2002, Green – Brock – Kaufman 2004). Immersive video experiences supported by devices as Headplay (http://www.headplay.com/) definitely work in the same direction, of soaking users into virtual environments, keeping ecological surroundings out of the picture. On the other hand, a huge load of web 2.0 applications move in the opposite direction, aiming to provide users with contents they carry with them throughout their daily interactive experience of places and people. And an huge divide is going to be drawn between those getting isolated into their own purely virtual narratives crowded with avatars, nicknames and digital phantoms and the others exerting media so to hybridize their own perception of the environment and organisms playing a part on it, that his to enrich stories hey carry on throughout their life.
Well, I think that the point of view depends of the persons, for example i doubt that everyone that use FB are just for be „hype“ as you said, in my case is easily talk with others that i don’t have in the msn (and I don’t want to have) in the FB way, or to find someone that i haven’t see in long time, of course there will be, also as you said, persons that will use it just for „the social stuff“, not all the people do that, and for serious talking just create a group or something for talk, all depends just of your mature and what is what you want,
I wish I knew your FB ID, we should be friends for sure 🙂 Your observations put into words many of the same i have made recently. Eduardo’s point is very valid :: there ARE many uses, identified, discovered or otherwise, of virtual networking, chatting, blogging, and so on. I agree (I think with you), that one’s blog should seriously be the sort of ‘main window’ or ‘gateway’ if you will, on any identity. It is a more accessible portal in any case, while FB or ORKUT profiles are a personal space, as too are the skype or ICQ friendships.
@anatole, professional view of digital and hybrid communication researcher
@eduardo, you got reply on previous post comment page.
@hp19:7, i think you already did. let’s separate these two things: there are users, SNS users that observe their FB, MS, Orkut etc. accounts as their ‘own homepages’ – also noticed at some SNS profiles instead of URL of personal site or blog, URL of FB ID or MS username, suing SNS platforms as their ‘ready-to-go’pages.
everything other said are variations on digital communication moduel: as mentioned skype/icq as personal communication channels either for chat in real time, or net telephony.