Cyber Culture

With advancements in web based interaction there is a wider platform to interact anonymously, at least to a certain extent.

I earlier discussed the concept of avatar use and this week I want to delve into an aspect of that: how web users use their option to be 'faceless' to offer their opinion or interact with other users and how this impacts on our culture.

After recently watching “behaviours in e-Learning” by Ray Jimenez I realised that in under a session of three minutes I had suddenly learnt something new, something for free and all from the comfort of my office space.

It seems e-Learning is evolving rapidly and that more and more people are being educated as a result. With e-Learning on the rise and more and more reliable sources available online for users to substitute their face-to-face learning, we should consider how this impacts on our culture. Specifically in terms of how we have changed our learning habits and in turn what the effects are both positive and negative.

After recently watching the 2009 film Surrogates , I realised how pervasive the idea of avatars are becoming in pop culture.