by hynesk | Mar 4, 2013
Throughout this course we have analyzed texts that depict different real-virtual world relations. We see our cyber-identities depicted in social media in the movie The Social Network. Race and ethnicity are shown in both our virtual and real world in S…
by hynesk | Feb 25, 2013
In “A Real Girl” by Shariann Lewitt gender issues and technology intersect with the main character who is a virtual woman in a computer. The whole story she is contemplating whether or not she wants to be “real”. The virtual woman gets …
by hynesk | Feb 11, 2013
I will be doing essay prompt 7. I would like to do this topic because I noticed a lot of racial references in Snow Crash. I believe that Neal Stephenson is commenting on how we are a racially ignorant society. We continue to still use racist and deroga…