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"I am only satisfied if my spectators, shivering and shuddering, raise their hands or cover their eyes out of fear of ghosts and devils dashing towards them."

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Is this still imaginative play?

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Discussion Questions!!!

1) Where do you stand on the debate that technology has seemingly eliminated traditional forms of play? Do you believe that the imaginative aspect of play experienced in childhoods by generations prior to ours, what Dixon and Weber refer to as “rare forms of play” (as seen in Snow White example as uninterrupted, unrestricted imagination at work) , is retained through “new” media today?

2) What do you think of Caillois’ critique of Huizinga’s definition of play? Are games and toys produced through play or are they historic relics of culture? How much of society’s culture can be derived from an analysis of the play enjoyed within it?

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Defining Cyberspace – What exactly is it?

“Amorphous, uncentralized, and partially secured network of data-carrying computers,” serving as the foundation for the virtual space established within through software, or the Internet. While unsituated and immaterial, it is a place. (Hicks)

A conceptual space where words, human relationships, data, wealth and power are manifested through technology. (Loader)

Anti-authoritative cyber-libertarians such as John Perry Barlow and William Gibson help us understand cyberspace as an alternative virtual world, or an electronic frontier, where the emerging governance depends not on force but on ethics and enlightened self-interest.

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Terminology to Aid Understanding of Cyberspace

The distinction between ‘place’ and ‘site’ and between ‘material’ and ‘immaterial’ places is especially important to recognize.

Whereas ‘site’ refers the physical aspects of a location, place in turn refers to the connection different individuals have with the site through relevant experiences. He provides the example of the city of Jerusalem as a single site with a multitude of places within it due to the differences in relationships held with it between Christians, Jews and Muslims. Similarly, he pinpoints the airport as a location with multiple sites but one place. He establishes cyberspace as a place without a site.

Furthermore, the distinction between ‘material’ and ‘immaterial’ places lies in the physical, as within the latter we cannot stand nor can we smell or touch its proverbial structures. Immaterial, unsituated places such as cyberspace are known and experienced entirely through language, can ground and organize people’s existence as much as material places, maybe even more so. (ex. the concepts of heaven and hell)

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