I started Chat Room with the assumption that virtual worlds drive us apart. That a world so technologically-driven as ours leads to lower degrees of intimacy between us. We are too afraid to actually chat with someone face-to-face, so we so we go onto chatrooms and meet people virtually.
I think it's fantastic.
it is so! in many ways i see the internet as a celebration of the random, of chaos. it's interesting that journalists and musicians and others who have traditionally been paid to provide information/entertainment are now having to re-evaluate what they are being paid for. what is their role, their good? how can they create a community that supports them, rather than just assuming that a structure or a process will take care of it for them.
ReplyDeletei'm interested in the statement "now that i have found intimacy online". what do you mean by that?
yeh - I also love that peo;le have to reevaluate the role of the media and books and print in general.
ReplyDeleteWhen I say 'I have found intimacy online' it's exactly this! It's being able to chat with you, with Catherine, to talk to people on facebook, like my extended family.
Oh skype! where would we be without it?
and I can keep in touch with people I meet at conferences, and actually write to artists that i like. I used to think it felt like a mask - yes, it does - but ha! artists have always used masks to break through to parts of ourselves that we may not otherwise access.
masks are old school ... :) ha, i get you. it's just another medium and the goodness is all in how you use it. sending cyber kisses to you love. x
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