#petercrapitto

So hello one and all; classmates, the NSA, and other denizens of tumblr. I’m Peter. Crapitto, Peter. I’m a creative writing major, and also I’m majorly awesome!!!! ;) ;D XD I’m funny sometimes, I swear. I guess this is sort of a reintroduction, as the internet can surely tell you with its seemingly infinite capability for holding onto the past.* I have actually attempted this course before, and so this for me is a return with a fresh, and hopefully constructive, new outlook. ** I really hope to broaden my exposure and understanding of new media, particularly social media, and its role in our culture. Particularly as a writer for our school newspaper, a form of media that seems to largely be going out of style and is at the very least going through a major evolution, I am interested in how news is found, reported and accessed in this modern day. I guess having never spent time on Twitter in high school I find myself now trying to catch-up with the times. ***

As for my response Wesch, I find I am more fascinated than frightened by the cultural/societal changes that are coming as a result of this new digital age. Certainly as an aspiring author questions of how we define authorship and copyright may be concerning, but the potential of media in this interconnected digital world is exciting to me, and I think we should not be so set in our ways that we cannot embrace such changes. Others things Wesch says we need to rethink include ethics and privacy. I think these are things we must accept, not react against. Loss of privacy in our current day is a major concern, but I think that is a reality we must face. We must open ourselves up to the world in order to benefit from it’s newly interconnected nature. Ethics too must be rethought, simply because our current systems are inadequate to deal with ethical quandaries of the internet age. Perhaps what concerns me most personally is that we may have to rethink the concept of our own identity. To suggest that we don’t just use technology, that technology is a part of us now. It’s intimidating. It brings into question the concept of a true-self that I think most of us would like to believe in. It’s difficult to fathom. Even then though, I am curious to see where this new world is going. How shall we perceive ourselves and others in a future that is all about the online?