The kids made sushi, swam, painted nails, fought - it got my little WOW "addict" into the flow of things, as long as he wan't being accepted by the group because of his idiosyncracies he went to WOW, but when he was accepted he just loved being part of the madness.
Very frustrating to have to search through .pdfs to find the reference but because I am soooo tenacious I finally did :
"The MUD is the real world—in the sense that the real self can be revealed there, without the constraints of everyday life that prevent people from expressing their inner beings. This player feels that everyday life as shaped by prejudices that are based on physical appearance. Again there is a separation between the two experiential planes, each having different affordances and constraints. Moreover, the respondent maintains that the real world is the MUD world because the real self finds its authentic form there." Talamo A.,Pozzii S.,Mellini B.(2010). Uniqueness of Experience and Virtual Playworlds: Playing Is Not Just for
Fun. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 17: 1, 23 — 41
Isn't it more about the fact that the Self finds an "accepted" form here rather than authentic one?
I have thought long and hard about my sleek, sexy, intelligent, white Mac tonight.
When I log off does it continue to have fun?
Could I attribute it a personality or is it about how it reflects me?
Could I confuse "presence as medium as social actor " (The At the Heart of It: one).
But I have still been sitting in front of this object all night - clicking on receive to get mail, going through Face Book, checking who is on Skype....
are we all just lonely - we need the Piazza?
Well if so, we don't have a Piazza, so how are we going to deal with what we got?
Cyber connecting...
And each step towards cyber connecting leads us one step further from Sukha.
What is going on here?
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