I'm having trouble connecting to the topic of Ambient vs. Immersive Media. I frequently engage in ambient media. My Facebook and Gmail account are constantly open in my web-browser. I also listen to talk radio constantly throughout my day. Often, NPR is playing and I am only catching snippets here and there. I can function without these things in the back ground as well. I do not have a smart phone (yet) and when I am out, I rarely engage in ambient media.
When I think about "immersive" media like World of Warcraft and Second Life...I get an icky feeling creeping up the back of my neck. It's fine that other people engage in these activities. I had never considered them to be social activities until this class but now I can see how it is social. However, when I've experienced immersive media, it's often been through indirect channels. For exampled, I was living with someone who was using immersive media as a means to avoid social interaction with me.
Facebook is a very social place for me. I had not considered it as a form of immersive media but now I am reconsidering that because depending on how you use it (and considering how I use it) I can see it as another immersive extension of one's social life. I often have to pry myself away from it and tell myself that no one is posting because everyone's gone to bed. I wonder what Facebook would be like if everyone used it the way that I do? I could forsee it becoming a lot like Second Life.
Please enjoy this awesome excerpt for the Korean film: "I'm a Cyborg, but that's Ok"
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