Friday, November 24, 2006
FunCast - Fun and Games on the Virtual Playground
For a more multi-modal experience of "More Fun and Games on the Virtual Playground" you can read today's Funcast while you simultaneously listen to the aformentioned FunCast, originally written in the 90s, a sample whereof follows:
The virtual community: The uncensored, voluntary and potentially anonymous exchange of ideas and images available through this very electronic medium, and all the related media, promotes the formation of virtual play communities. Again, the normal rules of communication and social standing are suspended. But in the virtual community, we also suspend the rules of space and time and body.
Virtual playgrounds: Like of course the World Wide Web. And even e-mail. And bulletin board systems. And of course newsgroups. Each a playground for virtual play communities. A playground of playgrounds.
The virtual community: The uncensored, voluntary and potentially anonymous exchange of ideas and images available through this very electronic medium, and all the related media, promotes the formation of virtual play communities. Again, the normal rules of communication and social standing are suspended. But in the virtual community, we also suspend the rules of space and time and body.
Virtual playgrounds: Like of course the World Wide Web. And even e-mail. And bulletin board systems. And of course newsgroups. Each a playground for virtual play communities. A playground of playgrounds.
