Tute presentation...

Hello again,

So this week it's my turn to do the tute presentation and i've chosen to focus on the first reading, "rebecca's pocket" by Rebecca Blood.

Blood presents a particularly positive view of technology as liberating and empowering the individual. Blogs, she argues, provides a space for the individual to explore her/his own identity through recording and reflecting upon one's own thoughts. In this media-saturated culture, individuals must embrace online self-expression to 'remember what it is to be human.'

If you have a spare few minutes in your day with nothing else to think about but resorting to uni work to curb your boredom, here are a couple of questions to think about for the tutorial:

-Why do people blog?

-What does it mean to be human? Can blogging allow us to be more human that we can ever be in the real world? OR Is the current obsession with technologies such as blogs causing us to forget how to be human?

Hopefully I will think of some more questions in the next two days.

See you all on wednesday!

Marina