Blog post 8

In Turkle, Video Games, she talks about how video games and computers impacted society in the 21st century. One aspect was addiction, people first get introduced they keep doing it over and over again but that was a myth according to Turkle. You have to learn how to fully play a game and balance it out. It requires skills and that is not addicting.

She also discusses computational specificity, she stated that video games are like pinball. You stare at them then react to them by smashing button and levers and then get better at video games you keep practicing at. After that your scores pile up and you get better at it.

In A cyborg manifesto by Haraway, she discusses many topics such as social-feminism in the late 20th century. She discusses a female cyborg that goes to different dimensions and doing normal human movements such as dancing.

Another topic is Fractured Identities, meaning its difficult to keep you identity and keeping it essential. She stated that there’s no state being female. It is difficult to describe
feminism in s single verb.

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