I have apprehensions about posting about my project ideas. To somewhat echo Craig's sentiments, I feel like people reading my drafts or picking through my ideas is kind of like being caught half naked and having someone point out your flaws. :p
I guess that would make Dr. J.P. and her bar friends a bunch of nudists, eh? I guess it's something you have to become comfortable with over time. I once read something by an author in a book about creative writing who stated that she would lie awake in terror at night that someone might break in and read her partially created story if she left it out on the typewriter. I can relate to that.
In any case.
I guess I'm pretty involved in the "digital culture." I'm part of a group brought together by the Wheel of Time series by the late Robert Jordan. They're novels of the Fantasy genre, which I never would have read but my husband convinced me they were worth a try, despite my loathing of Fantasy. He was right, they were very good.
When I joined the site, I had just moved to this part of the state from Concord University. I hated the school, but a I had a lot of friends there, so the move hit me pretty hard. Forum posting and chat (the site has an IRC webchat) kept my social meter up (you'll get that if you've ever played the Sims.) I didn't really know anyone here, I wasn't in school yet, and I couldn't work since I didn't have my greencard. I was pretty lonely, and the site I joined kept me from falling into depression. I've since grown to really care about these people; a few I've met in person and I plan to meet many more in October.
Anyway, here's the link if you're interested: http://www.tarvalon.net/news.asp
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2 comments:
Tiffany:
I know about waiting for the green card, never fun! Personally, I have no issues with nudity, I say naked bar night, here we come!
My paper is going to be about my online involvement with sci-fi series, Doctor Who. I was a huge fan of it when I was a kid and so wanted to be The Doctor.
Thanks to modern technology I am now a small part of that world.
Very interesting website.
First of all, I am not going to any naked bar night ever. ANd I will just say that while I love my friends naked bar night would have been terrible!
I like your story about being afraid that someone would come in and read the half finsihed writing. This reminds me of a writing class I took as a grad student. We were discussing what keeps us from writing, usually that little critical voice in your head that sits on your sholder and whispers in your ear. Now my professor saw hers as a rat. I hated rats and have a big fear of rodents, so we made the voice belong to a frog and to this day I have a small plastic frog that sits on my desk to remind me not to listen to that voice.
I think what you have brough up here is an important part of the digital culture and that is the search for community. Online everyone can find a community in which they feel comfortable and belong. When people tended to stay in one place their whole lives they had to find their community within a physical distance, but now communities can be formed by people anywhere and at any time. How do you think that this has helped or hindered people?
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