User:Reidi Merlin

Reidi Merlin
Reidi Merlin
	File:SLSnapshot-ReidiMerlin.PNG Reidi Merlin as of April 2, 2007
First game	Second Life
Created by	Adam Johnson

Digital Culture

"Note: You can use this webpage from your own wikipedia account, if you have one, by going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Reidi_Merlin and then editing the page. This is a lot easier than logging in as someone else, if you're already registered on the site.--AdamFJohnson 00:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

good idea to sign on as different users.--Michelledt 01:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

General Project Themes

Nodes

Interactivity -- Michelle, Adam, Diane

Immersion

Nonlinear Narratives -- Michelle

Consciousness -- Adam, Frank

Embodiment -- Adam, Gabrielle, Frank

Architecture -- Gabrielle

Rhizomes/Trees

Layouts

Wikilayout (Courtesy of Michelle)

Option 1

Using wikis to organize our topics/provide a discussion platform for creating a separate "embodiment" of our projects

Option 2

Editing Wikipedia directly in an attempt to address our own areas of interest (somewhat analytically, perhaps) while in the process performing aspects of digital culture, i.e. interactivity, interconnectivity, etc

Web Garden

This idea is arboreal --AdamFJohnson 00:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I like this idea because I can think of ways to make it coherant and still pretty. Even with Alex running around.--Diane 8:27, 27 March 2007

Central Hub aka "spine"

Project Discussion

General

This is a great idea if we all sign up for wikipedia accounts and learn the wiki-editing language, which is really quite simple. Also note that we don't need to ride wikipedia for this, as their software/web2.0-ness is open source. We could host it all on remus or whatever server. --AdamFJohnson 00:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I´m down with starting hosting on other site. Wikipedia was just the easiest start-up that came to mind. anyone know how to get us started on remus?--Michelledt 01:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I know

It occurs to me that there is an easier startup. But what would we really need with a class myspace? Isn't the fact that we have a Second Life character taking it far enough? ^_^ Our class is rapidly becoming something of an entity on the web, just in terms of it being represented as a whole rather than as a collection of people.--Diane 8:33, 27 March 2007

Rhizomatic vs. Arboreal Structure

are arboral structure "bad," or at least out of favor? I often have the impression that we assume that rhizomes are somehow superior, more sophisticated "structures," but I wonder why. Is it because we associate them with digital-ness? Is a "digital culture" inherently rhizomic?--Michelledt 01:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think they're out of favor, in fact, I think they're just a popular and understandable as they ever were. I just think we have come to understand that the rhizome is a better way to describe the interactivity, tangentiality, hyper/meta textuality, extension, etc of the internet and digital technology. Though, remember, digital binary is actually arboreal in the sense that it relies on either/or and on/off to direct itself.--AdamFJohnson 03:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Class Readings

READINGS FOR TUESDAY 4/3
(We're reading all of Sensorium, but here are the chapter presentation assignments)

Page	Chapter	Presenter
5	the mediated sensorium	michelle
73	christian jankowski	annie
84	francois roche and r&sie	diane
105	air	adam
119	compoundings	adam
125	control	alex
133	decorporealization	frank
137	ether	gabrielle
146	godscan	frank
149	hedonics	catherine
163	labanotation	mike
174	networked eyes	michelle
180	neurodynamics	frank
190	ocularity	michelle
194	prosthetics	annie
200	remote sensing	gabrielle
207	spectral	diane
212	surveillant	elena
216	synaesthesia	gabrielle
220	tethering	mike
229	utopian body	adam
235	viral	elena
238	yuck factor	catherine
241	zoon	alex

Reidi (Second Life avatar)

"What is interesting about Second Life? Can you become a book?" -Heidi

The avatar Reidi Merlin was created for the purpose of exploring the world of Second Life and to provide the class with a means of gaining firsthand observation and experience with the growing culture of the SL community. Her adventures have led to discoveries of online sororities, helpful users who pose as hobos, and learning just how much detail goes into the construction of each and every single item within SL, everything from the trees to the neighborhoods to individual avatar personas.