Cyberpolitics -

Week 5: The virtual and the real

Background -

- the interplay between the virtual and the real- the technological and the social / cultural practicee.g the Hong Kong independent movement

Concepts :-

VirtualitySpatialityDisembedding and communityDisembodiment and identity

Virtuality

Early virtual experience - novel - fantasy (as if real)Virtual reality - e.g cybersex - interactive fantasyPolitics of Fantasy - subversive, inverted coding, legendary - political implications of the Internet as a fantasy space - e.g 踢好戲量出旺角Virtual as a social space with new set of rules - e.g second life

Second life - how to flyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2bczvyHoM

PolyU Second life educationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QMolUk1rmI

Spatiality - cyberspace

Network space - the Internet computer spaceTechnologically designed social space - email, blog, forum, chat, social mediaSocial innovated technological space - e.g twitter

Email p-p and p-n

Blog and personal media p-n

Forum n-n

Facebook and social media

Identity - cyborg

Disembodiment - textuality and anonymity vs. bodyFluidity - textual performance (style) and social accomplishmentRenovated Hierarchy - Power and resources

- Identifier - Information and knowledge- Bandwidth and hardware- Law and regulation- Time- Network bridge

Honglaowai:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-eF7p8hRA

Virtual community

Classical definition - kinship, geography, tradition, customs, general will, affectionsImagined community - post-geographicalDisembedded - time and space

Locality - technical spaceIdentity / social relation - fluidity, renovated identityCustoms and norms - technical design and user-generationMembership - transient personal choice

Convergence of online and offline

- Interplay / dialectic relation between the online and offline- Cross media communication - Regulatory regime- Business integration

A note on research methode.g online fansclub