The informational and the intimate discusses the ideas of cyborgs and different identities and how we sometimes get lost within the internet from seeing whats real and what isn’t. We are constantly seeing people change on the internet with different personalities. They are behind the screen and no one can see who they really are. The social material production of new media discusses the social and different issues within the world of technology. I chose to focuses in on two different articles within each section that best represent each section In the article “The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities.” written by Donna Haraway, she talks about the idea of an emerging system created by industrial capitalism. She breaks down the industrialization
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She talks about the online identity named Julie, who is an elderly women but behind the screen is a psychiatrist who develops this personality to connect with women clients. He is starting to realize Julie is becoming more social online than he was in real life. Stone brings up the idea of object agency, where we give agency to inanimate objects. Stone than discusses the four epochs which are text, electronic communication, Information technology and Virtual reality and cyber space. There is a limited definition from where we are today. People begin to have cyborg envy and start becoming happier with there virtual life. People creating online identities relates to the section of the informational and the intimate because some people become more intimate when they create online personality in which they can become more intimate within that …show more content…
Many tech companies have a much more male population than women. Balsamo talks about how society views women in technology versus how we really see women in technology. She says that we need a gender makeover, and how putting more women in positions will not solve the problem, its more about how people in technology will think and act differently towards women in technology. This relates to the section “The social production material production of new media because it talks about the social issues women has within the tech
She talks about the online identity named Julie, who is an elderly women but behind the screen is a psychiatrist who develops this personality to connect with women clients. He is starting to realize Julie is becoming more social online than he was in real life. Stone brings up the idea of object agency, where we give agency to inanimate objects. Stone than discusses the four epochs which are text, electronic communication, Information technology and Virtual reality and cyber space. There is a limited definition from where we are today. People begin to have cyborg envy and start becoming happier with there virtual life. People creating online identities relates to the section of the informational and the intimate because some people become more intimate when they create online personality in which they can become more intimate within that …show more content…
Many tech companies have a much more male population than women. Balsamo talks about how society views women in technology versus how we really see women in technology. She says that we need a gender makeover, and how putting more women in positions will not solve the problem, its more about how people in technology will think and act differently towards women in technology. This relates to the section “The social production material production of new media because it talks about the social issues women has within the tech