reflective post

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This unit has been really different to what I expected it to be, which is great. I had thought that in a lot of ways it would expand upon the kinds of concepts and ideas that are mandatory in english/cultural studies units - only with a cool, techie-type bent to it. Obviously, no unit is an island unto itself and there are lots of ideas that follow on from other units but I think that self.net is unique nonetheless. It was refreshing to be involved in the types of ongoing popular debates and discourses surrounding the internet and technology – file sharing, pornography, culture jamming etc.

I think that the material - its familiarity to a lot of us, gives it a greater relevancy and immediacy, and a personal involvement which can’t be replicated in Victorian Ideologies or Reading Theory. It forced us, well - me at least - to engage with the technology in new ways and to acknowledge my own convoluted relationship to technology – raising important questions about life and reality and technology.