Modes of my Online Identity Performance

MY MODES
Video
Music
Not using an SNS but instead creating an independent website
Text
Interesting Graphics that seem attractive
Flash buttons

I think that these are the kind of thing that people like to see on informational independent websites. I know I will be showing a rough edited version but the idea is to show a possibility of a scholar website. Scholar websites look and seem like knowledgable or it least very detailed looking places that seem like the website historian knows or really likes the subject. The valitity of the information however is biased or a good precent of scholar websites are not all good sources of information unless it is endorced or supported by a well known and respected website with accurate information. My website exploits the "scholar" website as alluring but should be seen as face value peice of entertaining reading and to check the facts before using them for research value.

Reflection on Online Identity Project

I think that doing a popular figure like Captain Jack Sparrow was pretty fun. I love pirates anyways and I've already done a project on Pirates of the Carribean for another class so I had plenty of information about pirates. I did however find Myspace to be rather limiting on what can be put on a webpage. I couldn't put in an interesting cursor or have music playing in the background without paying for it. It was more like a template that forces the user into very strict guidelines onto how they can express themselves. Myspace used to have open HTML windows where you could post almost any html script to change your page but I'm sure with the problems with pop-ups and all those -ware viruses its become imparative that the website designers got more limiting to what will be allowed in regards to html inserts.

Limitations of Sound

Telling stories with only sound such as a ghost story around the campfire, a podcast, or something similar where you can't see anything you can only hear about it. This means that people will use their imagination to fill in the rest of the blank. When something like that happens you will not have a consistant understanding of a situation and have many variations of how "visually" it would be translated. I prefer visual stimuli especially when being taught because then I can get a very clear understanding of what is being told to me, especially geometry. Auditory learners can probably have a better time with stories being told and things that they like to listen to such as radio stations with talk radio or "radio dramas" but all the same even there, people will have different channels within their own personal experience to determine how they process the data.

Response to Quote

“Online we are embodied and disembodied,
raceless and part of a race, gendered and not gendered.”

You can be anyone you want online. Noone can trace if you are who you say you are unless they meet you in person. I can be a black man from flordia with a shrimp boat and ten million dollars if I want to be. I wouldn't because thats lame but I COULD which is the point of this phrase.

Final Project

I don't have an idea what I want to do yet for my final project.... I did a group project about Captian Jack Sparrow and I've decided its A LOT of fun to do a thing about maybe another pirate? The only reason I say this is because there is a WHOLE lifestyle that can be represented by a 21st century pirate. A guy/girl who has a thirst for booze, theft, sex, partying, and the open sea. ALSO pirates have their own language, and the dialect would be unique to the regon to which the pirate is found in.

Other ideas include... 

Marvin the Martian (for the whole outerspace aspect of understanding human technology)

Sammy Cheddar (A african male who is so obsessed with cheese that he changed his last name to cheddar... recipies.... where to find BIG cheese... events that include the focus on cheese... how to make cheese..... green bay packers are cheeseheads)

Shaggy (From Scooby Doo) .. his webspace how to find the best social spots and places where you can get legal canibis, good snack joints...

Ferris Buler (Idiots guy to get away with things.... all things website)

Casper (All things paranormal... paranormal tv... paranormal movies, objects to see ghosts, how to get ghosts to pass on, how to communicate with ghosts, casper's uncles... casper's events include hauntings, possession, and eating sweet treats.... halloween bash)

This is the Word.