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My buddy Megan's coming to KMDI to give her first lecture since becoming a member... don't miss it:
Thursday, March 4, 2004
Time: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. EST
Room BA1200 [1st floor]
Bahen Centre for Information Technology
University of Toronto
40 St. George St.
Cyberculture discourse jokes that "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog," and offers the hype as claimed in the classic MCI advertisement, "There is no race/there is no sex/there is no infirmity." What are the implications of the hypes and hopes that bodies can be transcended online? How are bodies represented and imagined in computer-mediated communication (CMC)? In this presentation, I argue that cyberculture has re-packaged Descartes' dream of mind over body into the "new digital Cartesianism." I analyze images that represent the "hypes" of bodies in online spaces, and the cyberculture writings that reflects the "hopes" of a gender-queer utopia online. In contrast to these hypes and hopes, I outline the "reality" of how bodies and identities are invoked in CMC, and how stereotyped conceptions of sexual orientation and gender are reinscribed in online communication practices.
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Thursday, March 4, 2004
Time: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. EST
Room BA1200 [1st floor]
Bahen Centre for Information Technology
University of Toronto
40 St. George St.
Cyberculture discourse jokes that "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog," and offers the hype as claimed in the classic MCI advertisement, "There is no race/there is no sex/there is no infirmity." What are the implications of the hypes and hopes that bodies can be transcended online? How are bodies represented and imagined in computer-mediated communication (CMC)? In this presentation, I argue that cyberculture has re-packaged Descartes' dream of mind over body into the "new digital Cartesianism." I analyze images that represent the "hypes" of bodies in online spaces, and the cyberculture writings that reflects the "hopes" of a gender-queer utopia online. In contrast to these hypes and hopes, I outline the "reality" of how bodies and identities are invoked in CMC, and how stereotyped conceptions of sexual orientation and gender are reinscribed in online communication practices.
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