My ‘visual atrtefact’, ‘The Map is not the territory’ can’t be embedded here (for reasons I can’t figure out) so I’ve posted this on my own blog which you can get to here.
I suggest that you take the ‘View Larger Map’ option so that you have space to explore all the embedded content.
lmao, love it – just watched ‘We Didn’t Start the Flame War’ three times in succession. must. stop. now. Nice take on cyberia ^^
Thanks Tracy. It made me laugh like a loon too. My favourite video in there though is still The Onion’s ‘Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids’. Brilliant stuff.
Lol. Liked the parents as stalkers clip
. Very funny!
I like how this both draws from block one and foreshadows our work on community in block 2, Damien – and I think the map works extremely well as a visual metaphor (though there’s been some good stuff written on how landscape metaphors for cyberspace are problematic because they imply territory, and something fundamental and outside human agency – let me know if you’re interested and I’ll dig up the refs I have on that).
Please do Jen!
Here you go!
De Saille, S (2006) A Cyberian in the Multiverse: Towards A Feminist Subject Position for Cyberspace. Leeds: Thinking Gender Conference 2006
Olson, K (2005) Cyberspace as Place and the Limits of Metaphor, Convergence Vol. 11, 1.
Sardar, Z (2000) Alt.Civilizations.FAQ: Cyberspace as the darker side of the west, in D Bell and B Kennedy The Cybercultures Reader. London: Routledge.