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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Interesting /b/sides from the internets

Internet is a very diverse (cyber)space, there is room for everyone and websites are created everyday to satisfy the interest and desires of unimaginable kind of people, and now also to create new ones -interests, desires, people.Lately, I've realized internet is not just something you "enjoy visiting" like a stranger, rather it has transfigured more of something you own; you constitute, as a part; or which constitute you. Examples of the first case are the e-mails, of the second the "internet communities" of various kinds; and in the last case, the growing importance of the internet for everyday life.One interesting page I found which is a good example of what I just stated is 4chan -www.4chan.org -. It is a bizarre phenomenon. It is based on a very simple format, which is called "image board". It consists on a message list where people can enter texts and -as its name says- images. What is interesting about it is that people is forced not to identify themselves as they post, so what is stated there hasn't got an "author", so there isn't a responsible for what is posted. Also, there is not a moderator, because of that, the website is room for political incorrectness, hackers, and a long list of etceteras. Also, the massive population which constitutes the community, or the communities in it has the power to take over internet polls, and to influence “real” life.

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I am an international student at UCLA studying the developments of complexity science. Related to it, I created this blog aiming to spread the works and theories by the Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela.