My favorite concept

one of my favorite concepts

What have I learn in this class etc...

I learn a lot about how people represent themselves on line in order to get reacting from others. I learn that long before technology was as advanced as it is now some people had already knew that technology was going to take jobs from people and that computers would be able to do the things that they do know and that anyone would be able to use a computer. My favorite thing about the class is that it is online and we get the opportunity to do weekly blogs. I also like the fact that you respond to our questions very quickly. My least favorite thing was that the extra credit had to be done at a certain time and not at anytime throughout the semester. The class can be improved by having shorter readings and more interesting readings. Some of the readings were easy for me to understand but some of them were kind of hard to understand.

What reading I found interesting

One of the readings from this class that I found interesting was the reading on "Second Life". I thought it was interesting that in the article they pointed out that all online avatars were basically created to look one way. Women had big boobs and were skinny and mean had six packs and they were buff. While in reality most people do not look that way. I also found it wired that some women who participated in second life websites said that they sometimes felt uncomfortable, which was due to the harassment of women by men. I really don't understand why anyone would harass an avatar that just stupid to me. However, I don't think that second life websites should have pictures of naked women or display them as prostitutes because its just sending out the wrong message in general. Those negative images could lead men to saying negative things about women.