So I'm a little confused about the nature of this blog. Why am I writing it? Who is my intended audience? You're supposed to figure this stuff out before you make a blog, or so I tell my own students. I find myself now, as a student, unsure how this blog--aside from making me automatically hip and cool-- is supposed to help me learn. Perhaps I can use it to log my mental state and the state of my ideas throughout the research process.
All I know is, I'd like to research Skype for my individual term project. I certainly use it enough and know little enough about its invention, history, economic model. I heard recently that Oprah has been plugging it. I've been seeing more and more shows like CNN or Jimmy Fallon (don't ask why I was watching!) making a point of mentioning that their guests are live via Skype. Is Skype being used as a tool for social change? Are people Skyping to relatives in other countries about the Iranian elections? Or is it just a tool for socialization, the telephone of the future, that sci-fi movies have been telling us for years will be ubiquitous? Early Star Trek, early French silent films have had versions of the "video phone" but it hasn't really taken off on the grassroots level until now...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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