Online communities and Fungux....

Nowadays i think is hard to say that someone to say that he/she do not belong to an online community. Due to the fact that internet is really popular in society, and people will communicate and use it for their everyday life. To talk about Internet and the power of it, will take forever just to understand half of the importance of it, however, what is important is to indicate that internet have help users to define themselves and find people that share the same values. For instance, i consider facebook groups are online communities, certainly some are really weird and i remember when i got my facebook account, i was trying to find a way to reflect my identity. It is hard to do it in webapages such as my space and facebook where the users are constraint to what the site offers. However, i found that facebook groups help to define who you are, by selecting groups such as : “facebook group for people who likes to join to facebook groups” or “I was doing homework and i end up in Facebook” or “Yes I am a mexican and i don't travel in a “burro” or have giant sombrero” and many others like this help me to define me and found other people like me and talk to other people that are “just like me”. Other online community, i love and adore is the PEARL JAM ten club.... huge participant there. Love it because i feel i have a connection with the band as well i feel i belong that i fit in this group. In the discussion board i totally understand all the topics, because i been there so long i have seniority, i feel important and i have some respect because of my obsession and my dedication to the band.

PART II (Every time i write “Part II”, i always want to say that part 2s are not as the part 1 lol... u know like sequels, except for the Godfather one. The part two of The Godfater kick ass!!!! but well ... just a stupid joke, anyhow.... sigh!)

Wow now we are talking about a research thesis... well usually that's the last one that i write when i do an essay but pretty much this is some ideas i will be mentioning in my thesis. The serious game, Seat at the table, can be used as an education tool to orientate youth about the social, economical and political struggles of the third world countries. The designed of the game and the information provided to the players allow them to situate themselves as a third world person and allow them to have control, at some extent, of the character faith. The game teaches to the player about the globalization's detrimental effect in poor communities all around the world. Usually one of my main arguments is the fact that the video game game play differs from high popular game, consequently, players do not feel that they are playing a game but that they are actually learning a serious game. Another argument is that what idea is being portray is that the game is representation an idea and i will try to indicate that is an anti-capitalist and anti-globalization discourse and i will provide example of how through the text in teh game it can be perceive such discourses.

And that's all i have done... I think we should get some feedback if we are doing the right thing