Comprehending Internet culture requires a person to have a keen understanding of how one connects with others on a social, cultural, and psychological level. Interactions within the online realm will often crossover to the physical world as discussions maintained through computers do not remain there. People bring their beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors from their …
My interest in researching online social networks, especially Facebook, comes from my interest in other writers such as Howard Rheingold, Pierre Levy, and Henry Jenkins and their work looking at symbolic interactionism within social networks. Rheingold’s methods always looked at the vortex between technology, culture and critical analysis. The “technologies of cooperation” described by Rheingold …
One of the significant works in cyberstudies is Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto.” She argues that she would rather be a cyborg as it is a “social reality… our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction.” This centerpiece of organic substance and mechanical precision forms the basis of Haraway’s religion. The boundary breakdowns listed by …