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03 Aug 08
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Welcome
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back”.
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I’m not trying to scrape the bottom of the psych barrel
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proves the context of his joke
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Cook not only discusses a universal need for connection and validation via whatever-and-all gadgetry provided by an era, he indirectly credits computers with creating a type of connection, one that is specific to that technology and has not otherwise existed before it
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the textual presence of “other”
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within which to feel their absence… their disinterest… their confusion
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Bravo Dane
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for “textualizing” the bulk of modern relationships
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or a saved list of cell phone texts, or e-mails, or instant messenger histories, or, well, blogs
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o check-up on themselves and their endeavors in the third person
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“Dating” is, in a way, something you can now do with yourself.
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But what are the consequences of this digital paradigm?
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In 1989, American communication theorist J. W. Carey defined communication as “a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed” (Communication as Culture, 22). Up until the introduction of digital media, Carey’s “transport model” of communication (in which the whole process is geared to delivering messages from senders and receivers) was the norm. Audiences were passive, and they were aggregates not individuals (Soukup 93).
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“re-mediation” of information
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