Ritual and Fiction

My Second Life avatar

In an earlier post I suggested that I would talk about an alternative way of considering people’s relationships with their online personas. In that post, I brought up Goffman’s dramaturgical model - the Shakespeare’s “All the world’s a … [Read more...]

Let Facebook Bring Out the REAL YOU!

Mark Zuckerberg

I said in my previous entry that I would be making a follow up post, but that is still cooking after all this time. I thought I would write some other thoughts down here instead. I made an alternate Facebook account today which I’ll be using for … [Read more...]

Performance: Goffman, Gaga, Gender

Lady Gaga Lineart by DeviantArt user 'The-Hand'

It’s been a while since my last blog post, but in that time I’ve made some headway into my research. In the following post I’m going to detail a little about performance theory and how it relates to my research about computing technology. In … [Read more...]

Brave New Words: How Computers Create Things by Naming Them

Thoth

In the Ancient Egyptian pantheon of the gods, Thoth is an Ibis headed deity who is associated with, among other things, the system of writing and the invention of the sciences, religion, philosophy and magic. When Ra, the creator deity, called … [Read more...]

Look Ma I’m Researching!

This is how I like to imagine a conversation with a systems analyst goes at a party: "So what do you do?" "I'm a systems analyst." "Oh... and what exactly does a ... systems analyst do?" "... I analyse systems." I'm at the very … [Read more...]