So, going back to Flashmobs. Sorry for the horrible MS Paint fiasco. I saw Watchmen over the weekend and now I'm obsessed with graffiti for a little while. Props to Liz for finding the Produser picture. This has been modified and reposted without permission :)
Anyway, this is what I've come up for my hypertext essay so far. Maybe it has something to do with Nightquil and being 1:00 am, but I think that Flashmobs and Produsers represent two very different types of internet users.
Flashmobbers utilize cyberspace for some kind of meatspace value, like organizing events in the real world or promoting/boycotting certain real world entities, like what I discussed in the earlier post about anonymous vs. The Church of Scientology. However, if flashmobs qualify as impromptu version of street theater, then their maybe be a literary value there.
Produsers utilize cyberspace for the sake of making cyberspace. Produsers generally believe in pursuing a more egalitarian cyberspace, and develop/consume programs that contribute to that. The internet is not just the means to the end, but the end itself. Meanwhile, if flashmobs turn out to be a digital form of media, the flashmob may itself be nothing more than prodused theater.
My essay will cover these two categories more distinctly and, hopefully, the gray area between the two. You can be both a Produser and Flashmobber, but for the sake of my MS Paint shopped pic let's just pretend there's an ideological war going on from now, which can only be reconciled by electronic forms of prodused (flashmob) literature. The clearly defined and principled sentient vs. the unknown, omnipresent, anonymous, uncoverable.
I'm way too tired for any more of this now. Night!
i love the wardoozers! and the fact that i'm taking a class that calls for me to use the word wardoozer!
ReplyDeleteyou realise the only thing left is to modify a cap from 300 (this...is....a...FLASHMOB!) and beat a dead meme. it's fun - all the cool kids are doing it...