At the beginning of this course, I find that it is difficult to understand what is really a cyborg. After the Unit in this course had used a lot of issues to describe how human being become a cyborg in this digital age.
Through computers, human can do a lot of thing that could not be happened in the reality. They can use keyboard to "speak up" their opinion that they rarely raised in the reality. We have different identity and communities in the Internet world. Everyone who excess to the computer seems automatically become a cyborg.
I remember when I was in primary and secondary school, computer was not still common in every household. Due to the advance technology, I started to have computer lesson which require us to learn Microsoft office. At that time I still do not think it is important and close to me, why should I learn such stuff? I do not even owe a computer at home! And all the homework was hand-written.
Now I understand how computer is important to our daily life. Without it I could not access information from outside world; I could not contact my friends; I could not even do assignment! I depend on computer a lot in my entire college life. I cannot imagine what if I do not have a computer in home, could I still can submit the essay easily?
Computer is part of people's life. We seems cannot stop living without the digital devices, people are becoming cyborg. They use them to communicate to people, use them to do business, or use them to express themselves like typing their blog like what I am doing right now.
In this course I have also leart people also can form different identities while they are using the computer, they can be a student asking question on the forum, on the other hand they might be a cultural jammer to voice out their resistant towards their school.
The presentation that my group was the Online Communities. During the research I have learnt how new groups of people formed in the Internet world. Which made me realize the power of the Internet.
Ho Ka Man Carman
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