RL vs. Online

Class brainstorm on our associations of Real Life (RL) vs. Online

RL = clear tone, limited access to people, clearly share emotions, body language, all senses, established standards, serious/literacy

Online = Play with language, unlimited access, evolving standards, hard to read emotions, emoticons :O, text, punctuation

Question for the week (to mull over and to write about in your analog notebooks): In this week’s screening, danah boyd argues that we “write ourselves into” digital existence on Facebook. What has driven the choices that you’ve made in your self-representation on Facebook? And where does your experience of facebook fall in terms of the (supposed) digital vs. RL divide?

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