Comments on: Cyberculture: Bell http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/09/24/cyberculture-bell/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:27:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Daniel Griffin http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/09/24/cyberculture-bell/#comment-7 Daniel Griffin Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:15:13 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/?p=89#comment-7 You are right; I love that book! Gibson did occur to me, but not until after the discussions. But ExistenZ definitely has the similar idea of a consensual fantasy world. It occurs to me now that the "consensual" part might be more important. Especially after considering the idea of sharing in a culture. If one member ceases to take part in the fantasy, and "jacks out", are they no longer part of that culture. Do they even exist for the other members anymore? Lots to think about. Thanks Jeremy! You are right; I love that book! Gibson did occur to me, but not until after the discussions. But ExistenZ definitely has the similar idea of a consensual fantasy world. It occurs to me now that the “consensual” part might be more important. Especially after considering the idea of sharing in a culture. If one member ceases to take part in the fantasy, and “jacks out”, are they no longer part of that culture. Do they even exist for the other members anymore? Lots to think about. Thanks Jeremy!

]]> By: Jeremy Keith Knox http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/09/24/cyberculture-bell/#comment-4 Jeremy Keith Knox Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:43:23 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/?p=89#comment-4 'how it is a type of shared fantasy world in which our connections are taking place' Daniel, this is a very interesting take on 'cyberspace'. I wonder if you are making reference to William Gibson's 'Neuromancer': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer, which popularised the term 'cyberspace', famously described as a 'consensual hallucination'. Very interesting reference to the Amazon Mechanical Turk, thanks. I was aware of 'the Turk' automaton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk from which this service gets its name, but this use of crowd sourced labour is fascinating indeed, and adds a very interesting dimension to the idea of 'work stories' in relation to cyberculture. ‘how it is a type of shared fantasy world in which our connections are taking place’

Daniel, this is a very interesting take on ‘cyberspace’. I wonder if you are making reference to William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer, which popularised the term ‘cyberspace’, famously described as a ‘consensual hallucination’.

Very interesting reference to the Amazon Mechanical Turk, thanks. I was aware of ‘the Turk’ automaton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk from which this service gets its name, but this use of crowd sourced labour is fascinating indeed, and adds a very interesting dimension to the idea of ‘work stories’ in relation to cyberculture.

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