"Hybrid spaces merge the physical and the digital in a social environment..." (p.759)
A Hybrid space is simply put in place to categorize the fuzzyness inbetween the fine lines of physical space and the digital space. Since there is such a debate over, when do you cross over from physical space like typing, to digital space like the words posted on the internet for all to see? This is the Hybrid Space.
Ishii figured he could "bridge the gap between cyberspace and phusical environment by making digital information (bits) tangible" (p.760) Basically everything done on a computer whether it be typing or downloading, is stored in byte wide information, and each byte consists of 8 'bits'. So Ishii said that if we can understand what every bit is telling us, and not just drawing conclusions from the overall picture, then that would make the digital aspect more physical...arguing the mobility of the digital world now is a huge step in percieving the digital realm as a more physical part of our lives. Manovich created an augmented space generated by video suveillance, recording the physical into the digital, cellspace, where satellites relay information to GPS units hauled around by physical beings/objects, and by static screens in the windows displaying information to whomever walks by.
We have integrated the internet with our live so much we don't even perceive it as getting onto the internet to look something up rather as a serch engine that is already there, waiting to be used whenever we want. Younger people today have started to rely on their cell phones as a means to do everything; it is their lifeline, always connected to the internet. That is how they stay connected to everyone, that is how they navigate via GPS, that is how they purchase movies tickets or tell their DVR to record a show because they are going to be late.
What this essay comes down to is defining a hybrid reality. Going along with the hybrid space, a hybrid reality defines specific points in time where one is consumed in the phisical, and digital space at the same time. Since we have to have a phisical space, reality, and a digital space, reality, and we can't figure out how to seperate the two, now we have the hybrid space, reality which is the meshing of the two.
A majority of the population in technologically advanced countries experiences the hybrid reality every day, usually multiple times a day probably without even thinking about it other than transfurring, imputing, creating, etc. information and going on with their lives.
On a semi-side note:
The digital divide will eventually be forced shut due to technology being integrated into everyone's daily lives as a social standard. And anyone who falls behind will be left behind because the World isn't going to wait for everone, thus leaving a gaping chasm between those with, and those without. That is kindof contradictory, so to make it clear the digital divide will be forced shut for people who live in say, America. But countries who fall behind like the in the middle East or Africa will be left behind.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
communities
My interpretation of a virtual community is simply an online web of people interacting with eachother.
The first virtual community that comes to mind is this blogging...specifically the blogging with eachother in the class of DTC 475. Since I have a cell phone, in the hiarchy of things im part of the virtual community of everyone with a cell phone, but thats pretty vauge. Lets see, I don't have a facebook or myspace, another virtual community would be playing online with other players in Ghost Recon 2 as we can chat while we play. My interactions in these communities include discussing topics like this, and generate broader range of knowledge toward a given subject. Or there is the discussions on how to kill the oponet faster. You can have numerous experiences, if you are chatting then usually that experience for the day is pretty random as people just discuss their day or the problems they are having. Another virtual community I am apart of, is the National Gun Rights Association. The barrier to entry is you need to be pro gun rights and express that by giving your name and signing the official pro gun rights thingy...i cant remember what its called...to keep the morons (to say the least) from taking our gun rights away.
There are deffinite barriers to any virtual community, obviously you need access to a computer, with internet. You may have to be accepted into the virtual community like this one. If it is a game-based community, you need to have purchased (or pirated) that certain game, download, and meet all the requirements of that game in order to particapate online. For any virtual community you need to have basic knowledge of the computer...like what the keyboard does. what you can do with the mouse. and most importantly, how to generally navigate the internet.
A virtual community is a place online, typing on a keyboard and putting something out for others to read whether it be an extension of the physical community like class, or meeting ppl online and chatting in any forum with people you've never met, where you can take on the role as a man or woman or a freakin monkey in training.
The first virtual community that comes to mind is this blogging...specifically the blogging with eachother in the class of DTC 475. Since I have a cell phone, in the hiarchy of things im part of the virtual community of everyone with a cell phone, but thats pretty vauge. Lets see, I don't have a facebook or myspace, another virtual community would be playing online with other players in Ghost Recon 2 as we can chat while we play. My interactions in these communities include discussing topics like this, and generate broader range of knowledge toward a given subject. Or there is the discussions on how to kill the oponet faster. You can have numerous experiences, if you are chatting then usually that experience for the day is pretty random as people just discuss their day or the problems they are having. Another virtual community I am apart of, is the National Gun Rights Association. The barrier to entry is you need to be pro gun rights and express that by giving your name and signing the official pro gun rights thingy...i cant remember what its called...to keep the morons (to say the least) from taking our gun rights away.
There are deffinite barriers to any virtual community, obviously you need access to a computer, with internet. You may have to be accepted into the virtual community like this one. If it is a game-based community, you need to have purchased (or pirated) that certain game, download, and meet all the requirements of that game in order to particapate online. For any virtual community you need to have basic knowledge of the computer...like what the keyboard does. what you can do with the mouse. and most importantly, how to generally navigate the internet.
A virtual community is a place online, typing on a keyboard and putting something out for others to read whether it be an extension of the physical community like class, or meeting ppl online and chatting in any forum with people you've never met, where you can take on the role as a man or woman or a freakin monkey in training.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
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What the hell is this dude talking about? I could not follow this guys essay if my life depended on it. It seemed like every other sentence he was going off on some tangent listing everything he could think of so by time i found a period i had to go back and read what he was tyring to describe... ok now that i have that out of my system I will talk about my ideas of cyberspace.
There are 4 defenitions out of the ten that at least have one part in them that stand out to me. These definitions seem to randomly tangent out to a freakin different planet at the end but the beginings on some of them are good. The first definition I like was:
Cyberspace: Accessed through any computer linked into the system; a place, one place, limitless; entered equally from a basement in Vancouver, a boat in Port-au-Prince, a cab in New York, a garage in Texas City, an apartment in Rome, an office in Hong Kong, a bar in Kyoto, a cafe in Kinshasa, a labratory on the Moon.
Now I don't know about the moon, at least not yet. But as far as the rest of the definiton goes, it is pretty much what I think of cyberspace as-somthing you can access from your computer (a phone able to access the internet is the same thing) and if you are within range, and equipped with the proper hardware then you can access the realm of cyberspace. But even though this is the best description as a whole, there are some other lines that I would like to include that also get the point accross.
"Everywhere and nowhere, a place where nothing is forgotten and yet everything changes."
"Its corridors form wherever electricity meets intelligence. Its chambers bloom wherever data gathers and is stored. Its depths increase with every image or word or number, with every addition, every contribution, of fact or thought. Its horizons recede in every direction;..." then it goes off on a tangent
And the fourth definition I sortof like, well bits and pieces of the very last def. of the ten. The line about cyberspace being everywhere and nowhere is cool because you can access the internet almost anywhere, whether it be through your modem, wireless router or via satellight it is available, but only on a screen. Cyberspace in like light that we can't see, except it can penetrate our walls. and since we cant see it, it is everywhere and nowhere. nothing is forgotten because the government records it all, but whoever made the site or has control over the site could change it at any time. But what I like about the 3rd definition is how it states its corridors form wherever electricity meets intelligence...which is so true because cyberspace is a digital world, and anything digital requires electricity.
There are 4 defenitions out of the ten that at least have one part in them that stand out to me. These definitions seem to randomly tangent out to a freakin different planet at the end but the beginings on some of them are good. The first definition I like was:
Cyberspace: Accessed through any computer linked into the system; a place, one place, limitless; entered equally from a basement in Vancouver, a boat in Port-au-Prince, a cab in New York, a garage in Texas City, an apartment in Rome, an office in Hong Kong, a bar in Kyoto, a cafe in Kinshasa, a labratory on the Moon.
Now I don't know about the moon, at least not yet. But as far as the rest of the definiton goes, it is pretty much what I think of cyberspace as-somthing you can access from your computer (a phone able to access the internet is the same thing) and if you are within range, and equipped with the proper hardware then you can access the realm of cyberspace. But even though this is the best description as a whole, there are some other lines that I would like to include that also get the point accross.
"Everywhere and nowhere, a place where nothing is forgotten and yet everything changes."
"Its corridors form wherever electricity meets intelligence. Its chambers bloom wherever data gathers and is stored. Its depths increase with every image or word or number, with every addition, every contribution, of fact or thought. Its horizons recede in every direction;..." then it goes off on a tangent
And the fourth definition I sortof like, well bits and pieces of the very last def. of the ten. The line about cyberspace being everywhere and nowhere is cool because you can access the internet almost anywhere, whether it be through your modem, wireless router or via satellight it is available, but only on a screen. Cyberspace in like light that we can't see, except it can penetrate our walls. and since we cant see it, it is everywhere and nowhere. nothing is forgotten because the government records it all, but whoever made the site or has control over the site could change it at any time. But what I like about the 3rd definition is how it states its corridors form wherever electricity meets intelligence...which is so true because cyberspace is a digital world, and anything digital requires electricity.
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