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As described in “A Passion for Objects,” how does the author describe digital culture at its heart?
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Monica Jones's comment,
September 4, 2012 1:19 AM
Turkle describes digital culture as being a need and necessity in everyday life. She states that "by the end of the 1980s, my students begin to write about growing up with electronic games, lasers, video games, and "home computers," objects that are investigated through the manipulation of program and code. Yet even with the passage from mechanical to electronic, and from analog to digital, students express a desire to get close to the inner workings of their machines. The early personal computers made it relatively easy to do so". I think she means by this that her students liked working with digital objects that didn't come programed already like the ones do now in the new era. Maybe they liked working on these machines themselves and building them from scratch up also. The metaphor that she used to describe all this was "an early personal computer was like an old car in your garage. You could still "open up the hood and look inside.""
John Nielson's comment September 4, 2012 10:00 AM
Attaching Word files to e-mail is comparable to a standard railroad gauge as described in "Moore's Law and Technological Determinism" because they both show flaws such as Mircosoft Word changing font all of a sudden and the standard railroad gauge is slightly narrower than the optimum, but they are still continually used because they have become standard to use my the majority of people. In "A Passion for Objects' Turkle states at its heart digital culture is precision and infinite possibilities.
Jonathan Schneider's comment September 4, 2012 11:33 AM
Turkle decribes our passion for objects as a collective overwhelming need to be knowledgeable about technology as it has evolved over the past decades. I can personally relate to her article because I work in the telecommunications sales industry and I see everyday the passion and NEED for new smartphones in customers' questions like, "when is this or that device coming out?" Additionally, the need and passions are demonstrated when thousands of people line up outside of AT&T, Verizon and Apple stores to desperately get their hands on the newest iPhone.
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