Monday, 18 February 2008
FAILED VIRTUAL LOVING
After much effort by each group member in trying to create the perfect avatar, we have decided there is not enough time to achieve this. We think it will be better to move onto other research for our project instaed of trying to create something which is draining our energy and not benefiting us as a group.
WEEK 6:ONLINE IDENTITY
When i typed in ''urvi patel'' in google search engine it came up with 11,400 hits, which was like ''wow''. so then i thought just type in ''urvi'' to get less results but i got 82,200 hits. The websites for ''urvi patel'' ranged from simple personal blogs and webpages to girls who had won awards for their work. I didnt find any of this interesting as it felt like when you see someone with the same shoes on as you and you dont think much of it.
everyone else in class found their facebook or myspace profiles somewhere in their hits but I couldnt find mine. Even though i had thousands of hits shouldnt I be somewhere in the first few pages?How is online identity measured?How does one make themself be on the the first few pages of the results hits. Does popularity determine what number we are on the results page?
In http://www.192.com/search/search.cfm I think i found myself. The year of my first was correct as was the town I was born in but inorder to have a detailed search I needed to become a paying member.
But it is not only fun finding youself online but also scary, if we as a class can stumble across online work from years back then a hacker can work miracles. This exercise reinforces the fear society has about online identity fraud.
everyone else in class found their facebook or myspace profiles somewhere in their hits but I couldnt find mine. Even though i had thousands of hits shouldnt I be somewhere in the first few pages?How is online identity measured?How does one make themself be on the the first few pages of the results hits. Does popularity determine what number we are on the results page?
In http://www.192.com/search/search.cfm I think i found myself. The year of my first was correct as was the town I was born in but inorder to have a detailed search I needed to become a paying member.
But it is not only fun finding youself online but also scary, if we as a class can stumble across online work from years back then a hacker can work miracles. This exercise reinforces the fear society has about online identity fraud.
Monday, 11 February 2008
Whats Happened so far?...
Our idea to a get a avatar has sort of not worked due to the fact that we did not register properly. they wanted us to provide a form of ID such as a passport number. after a week of confusion and trying to use the second life website we figured out what to do. we inputed a 'fake' passport number as ID and hoped for the best. to out supprise the fake passport number worked! a message popped up saying this passport number has been checked against goverment records and so on and so on....what bull!! (pardon the french).
If we were real second life users we would be given a false sense of authority into believing we are valid members of this comminity. How can a fake ID pass through a so called goverment checking sytstem without being caught out. We have a basic free account which we are always reminded to upgrade to a paid premium account. Without being a paying member we have no chance to be authenticated against actual records.
How can a website be allowed to do this especially when some of its members are treating this second life as a real life . Some of the members have lost the sense of realism and created a financial losses by investing real money into a virtual banking system.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18842021
the dfinition here that needs to be looked up is VIRTUAL. virtual banking creating REAL losses.
If we were real second life users we would be given a false sense of authority into believing we are valid members of this comminity. How can a fake ID pass through a so called goverment checking sytstem without being caught out. We have a basic free account which we are always reminded to upgrade to a paid premium account. Without being a paying member we have no chance to be authenticated against actual records.
How can a website be allowed to do this especially when some of its members are treating this second life as a real life . Some of the members have lost the sense of realism and created a financial losses by investing real money into a virtual banking system.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18842021
the dfinition here that needs to be looked up is VIRTUAL. virtual banking creating REAL losses.
Monday, 4 February 2008
WEEK 4: virtual loving
ok...as a group we decided to base our project on virtual communities and how 'cyber love' and how real relationships are/can be formed online, in the virtual world. We set ourselves the task of watching a documentary Wonderland: virtual adultery and cyberspace love BBC 2. In this a ' 37 year-old mother of four in the midst of a passionate affair that is tearing her family apart. She's spending up to 18 hours a day with her lover, and her husband is in despair. But the extraordinary thing about this affair is that Carolyn's lover is man she has never met. Because he's not a human being. He's an avatar (or computer generated figure), who exists only in the virtual world of Second Life. And their relationship exists only in cyberspace'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008vrht.shtml?filter=txdate%3A30-01&filter=txslot%3Aevening&start=2&scope=iplayerlast7days&version_pid=b008vrg5
This documentary gives a great insight into a virtual 3D world which is more in depth and real than the likes of facebook. Second life is actully a second life were people can buy luxury good and take on any image they please. It's population runs into 3 million, people start forming actual relationships and in some cases second life can become blurred into real life as proved by a couple who got married in reality and virtually.
https://secure-web2.secondlife.com/
Instead of looking at this growing world as an outsider and experiencing things second hand I thought it would benefit the group to actually have our very own Avator. so I created Purk Vought, she is not born yet shes just a ID name because it would be unfare for rest of the group...soo watch this space as we create and delve into SECOND LIFE.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008vrht.shtml?filter=txdate%3A30-01&filter=txslot%3Aevening&start=2&scope=iplayerlast7days&version_pid=b008vrg5
This documentary gives a great insight into a virtual 3D world which is more in depth and real than the likes of facebook. Second life is actully a second life were people can buy luxury good and take on any image they please. It's population runs into 3 million, people start forming actual relationships and in some cases second life can become blurred into real life as proved by a couple who got married in reality and virtually.
https://secure-web2.secondlife.com/
Instead of looking at this growing world as an outsider and experiencing things second hand I thought it would benefit the group to actually have our very own Avator. so I created Purk Vought, she is not born yet shes just a ID name because it would be unfare for rest of the group...soo watch this space as we create and delve into SECOND LIFE.
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