Hi all

Hey everyone, I'm Jonathan, making my first post here. I'm currently doing my second year of Communication Studies with English as my 2nd major. To be honest, this is my first Women's Studies unit and I'm looking forward to it. I decided to take this unit as I'm quite interested in how different our identities are in this "digital age" from that of the past. I'm especially interested in the aspect of how people interact online, particularly in online gaming communities (which I unfortunately couldn't get to present on >.>) as I've been playing online games on and off for a few years. Through it, I noticed a very big difference between how people interact in real life and online. For example, aspects of gender are magnified online, something my female friends online can attest to. But anyway.

I'm from Singapore and came only to Perth for my university studies, so most of my interactions with my friends back in Singapore are suddenly restricted to online mediums only. Singapore's a nice place (for tourists) but focus on gender studies is very limited there - most of my friends back in Singapore have never been anywhere near a Women's Studies unit! Not to say that Singaporeans have strong gender biases or anything, just that it's not something people often think/talk about there. Therefore, I'm very interested in learning more in this unit. The topics discussed so far has been really fascinating, in fact!

I thought I'll provide a link somewhat related to the unit:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-plausible-ways-humans-could-become-obsolete/

Sure, it's a humour website and all, but there are few points raised in the article I find relevant to the unit, like the Uncanny Valley and the runner breaking world records because of his prosthetic legs. Also, I find many articles in this website rather humorous too.

Hope to learn about (and hear from) everyone else in this unit!