I had a look on Jason Nelson website which is creative. I have never experienced this kind of website before. His poetry is really strange and this is in fact unique to the internet. This is intenet art where the mediatisation make it art as we can add a lot of things around that are going to attract the eye. The internet is now transforming or creating a new kind of poetry that is only poetry if watched from the internet.
In the second part of the lecture we watched a video on this new virtual community called "second life". This is a cyberspace where people have their own avatar to represent them selves in that place. They can personalize and dress their avatar but they can also put real money in that cyberspace to afford clothes or land. The most surprising thing is that you can convert real money into second life currency and it works the other way. This made me think of issues like people are buying land and selling them to make profit but it is ony about virtual stuff nothing of what you buy in second life is real. The only real thing and here is the point of second life is that you invest that money in a community where people can share communicate and even do business so this what they are looking for when they sign up they want to be part of that community even if it has a cost. Moreover if you are smart enough you could make profit. technology enable peole that have the knowledge to create completly virtual space where you can do the same things as in real life and sometimes more.
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