Cooper and Grotheer Podcast – Turkle, Introductions
How real are our virtual worlds? Well, that is a question inspired by the text of Sherry Turkle. And in this podcast, Grotheer and Cooper aim at tackling that question and other issues that are created in the act of thinking about us, the real, and the virtual.
September 11th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Cooper and Grotheer,
Really great job of honing in on the central questions animating Turkle’s investigation. Good job too editing your discussions and interview subject to keep your exploration of the questions focused. I appreciated the development of the conversation over the course of the podcast and how you ended with a question that went beyond the chapters just enough to really open up the topic to the rest of the class.
If we had more time, I’d have the class pursue these thoughts in particular:
~John’s idea that the body is necessary because our senses our necessary to interpret the virtual experience (does this leave the body a “case” or does the body actually bring something to the table?)
~Dwight’s claim that the mind is not directly connected to the computer; it’s only translating (I get that the mind isn’t hardwired in the way Case was, but I still wonder if there’s such a clear boundary)
~And then, of course, I wanted to have the conversation about FB and whether or not we really are able to rewrite the rules.
Provocative claims worth pursuing.
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