Mistaken Identities: Problems of Movie Discussion Boards :: Online Cyberspace Web Essays

Mis give inn Identities Problems of celluloid Discussion Boards Theres always another mind there. Its same having the corner bar, complete with old buddies and delightful newcomers and new tools waiting to take home afresh graffiti and letters, except instead of putting on my coat, shutting the down the computer, and walking down to the corner, I just request my telecom program and there they are. Its a place is how Howard Rheingold set forth online communities in his essay The Virtual Community (94). Is this what the world has come to? The detail that shutting down your computer is such a horrid vista that walking down the corner to a bar or a caf induces unrea describeic and almost an absurd thought? That this small task has become too much effort to put forth? I would homogeneous to believe that such a mind frame does not endure throughout the population. These were just a few of the thoughts that raced through my mind by and by reading this essay. W ith Rheingolds continual praise of online communities and in reading articles that suffer that others agree with this new lifestyle, I became extremely interested and wanted to chance on more. I decided the only way to know what these communities were about was to join one. I chose Internet Movie Database (ImDb) Message board as my starting line point. The topic of general film talk caught my interest. I read the posts left over(p) by those who had visited the site and found their knowledge of movies to be overwhelming. Many of the members were eventide able to name characters of many movies. One post was called, Name that tagline. It proceeded to list ten iterates from random movies. Within minutes responses were given with the answers to each quote it was amazing that people were this indulged in movies on a daily basis. another(prenominal) point I found a bit odd was the lyric in which the posts were written. It was not typical everyday talk, rather highly structured, a s if each person was attempting to outdo each previous post. I accomplished this afternoon that the reason I cant stand him is not because he is dividing up the movie audience into marketing niches and then pandering to them. What he is doing is glomming onto daring nice statements and movie projects that might be un net profitable if done with integrity, and guaranteeing himself a profit by dumbing them down and star sucking them up to make Oscar mount for a mass audience.