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Twitter: Feel Connected
An online collection of updated emotions from around the world.
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Twitter in Plain English.
About This Blog.
According to their website, "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"
Like many Web 2.0 applications, Twitter promises to make communication easier and better for people. Any user can see any other user's Twitter updates as long as that other person is not on a private setting.
"Twitter: Feel Connected", a project by Ariel Kavoussi, is an appropriation of "Tweets" from the collaboration of unwitting participants. "Tweets" on this blog update regularly to reflect the most updated emotions of the people who post them on Twitter.
Scholar and philosopher, Albert Borgmann, writes "the profound themes of the human condition..fail to sustain engagement in cyberspace". Many feel technology will bring about some superior kind of human interaction. While it's true that the internet supports the growth of new communities, people often neglect to see the alienating and distancing affects of their cyber-realities. Virtual intimacy is exactly that: Virtual.
So for Twitter, should the question be "What are you doing?" or should it be "Can 140 web characters really bring you "closer together" with your loved ones and the humanity at large?".
Please comment if you have a suggested search word you would like to be posted.
Like many Web 2.0 applications, Twitter promises to make communication easier and better for people. Any user can see any other user's Twitter updates as long as that other person is not on a private setting.
"Twitter: Feel Connected", a project by Ariel Kavoussi, is an appropriation of "Tweets" from the collaboration of unwitting participants. "Tweets" on this blog update regularly to reflect the most updated emotions of the people who post them on Twitter.
Scholar and philosopher, Albert Borgmann, writes "the profound themes of the human condition..fail to sustain engagement in cyberspace". Many feel technology will bring about some superior kind of human interaction. While it's true that the internet supports the growth of new communities, people often neglect to see the alienating and distancing affects of their cyber-realities. Virtual intimacy is exactly that: Virtual.
So for Twitter, should the question be "What are you doing?" or should it be "Can 140 web characters really bring you "closer together" with your loved ones and the humanity at large?".
Please comment if you have a suggested search word you would like to be posted.