Henry's Self Reflection

As an enthusiast of Internet, I really enjoyed the investigation of relationship between Human and Cyborg. The course content actually impacted on me with a critical review on my depedence and attitude to technology. Therefore, in my webliography, I took a trial to explore a brand new ideology--- Transhumanism that was not covered in the course. Besides, our web blog offered an precious opportunity to share our opinion about technology, also a glance at others analytic thinking and skills and written style to same topics which was similar to the last Creative Writing course on poem sharing. I quite appreciate if others courses could establish this good atmosphere as well.

Self-Reflection by Scully

This course helps me to explore the relationship between human and technology and the ethnicity in cyberspace. I totally agree that technology is blurring the boundary between human and cyberspace unconsciously. At the very beginning, I have never thought about the cons of technology. Since I totally appreciate the precipitation of technology in making our life better, we are only focusing on the positive side of technology. While we did not aware that technology is somehow entering and dominating our daily life, technology is turning our world to the next generation. Like I learnt from the topic of video games, video games are now teaching people to think like computer. At first, I felt it is really crazy, as we would never memorize something in 10101110. But, when we play video games, we will only do action after we have received the signals on the screen. We are emotionally and sometimes motionally followed the computer.

I do agree that I am cyborg. I believe that my memory system is same as the design of computer. I have separated memories like the folders in my laptop and putting them in aphetically. Like people storing and sharing their files in cyber, blogging is a convenient way in academic use.  Yet, blogging is not really user-friendly for mac users. Since I have experienced some errors before in most severs, I have never really tried writing blog before. It is good for me to try blogging and I find it is effective to reflect ourselves in a modern way like blogging.

Reflective post by Amie

I think this course is very up-to-day, as all the information covered in the course is all related to our daily life now, but not in the past. Therefore i think if the course is opened in the twenty years ago, no one will really understand what is the real situation. For example, the case we talked about the online shopping, online community and the notion of cyborg, also and the cyber rape. I really do not think that will happen in the past. Therefore they can only understand by their own imagination.

Moreover, this course give me a great opportunity to re-think about our orientation in the fast changing world, especially when facing the virtual reality. It is because we can not use our traditional thinking to judge the society and culture. For example, the emergence of MSN or facebook. The older generation may think these online communication methods can really shorten our time in mail. However, if the new generation access to these online communication methods too early, they maybe in danger, such as the accident in HK within these days. A 16 years old young girl was killed and cutted into pieces, and her head was be thrown into the sea. She is the case who talked to strangers in MSN. Therefore is online communication a good or bad thing? We still need many time to think about that.

Finally, i really appreciate the help from Anna and the use of welbog. Her explanations are so clear in both lectures and tutorials. Also i like to use weblog to post our work as we do not have to actually come and hand it by myself, and that's really a time consuming thing.

Anthea's Reflective Post

After these couple weeks of learning, I think that using blog to deliver our works on line is quite interesting. That allows our fellow classmates can share our personal opinions and at the same time we are able to give response to the works. Therefore, that is a successful application which we can make use of our knowledge to the technological materials. It can completely reveal how we get involved our learning in our daily life.

Definitely, I am a cyborg indeed. What I am using and what I am doing in my daily life is all related to the technology. For example, I can't get rid of my cell phone when I am going out. I rather think that I would feel so uncomfortable if I forget to bring my cell phone with me along. However, we have to do our paper research through internet in which can provide us some different, updated and immediate information. So technology can really help in nowadays society as well as individuals. Through these several experiences, I understand that I have been relying on the technology for a long period of time.

I think the most I like in this course is to learn how to think profoundly the meaning beyond when we are mixing the technology aspect into our reality. The course can contribute some new understanding and ideas about how we communicate to the technological knowledge to me. Those understanding we might not be consciouses in usual. Even through some concepts provided in this course are a bit abstract and complex but I am quite enjoying to learn about it. Because they always appear in my life however I seldom pay much attention to figure out them.

Bertha's Reflective Post

After the 12 weeks of lectures and tutorials in Self.Net, it gave me a theoretical concepts about the relationship between human bodies and technology throughout this course. At the very beginning, I had no idea about the meaning of cyborg, which I had never heard of this term either before. Firstly, what I had learned from this course is definitely the importance of the technologies to our recent life. We are all now living in a digital world that we almost have close connection with the technologies in our daily life. For sure, this brought conveniences and enhanced our life in several ways. However, some may challenge that the widespread of technologies into human life may take control over us in one day and also lead to some ethical issues. For this, we have to really concern about this situation from now on.
Besides, I was really appreciated about this new experience of writing such kind of weblog as a kind of assessment. As writing our own blog online is now already a very common way, it's efficient that others else can see your expression and reply your post freely.

Juliana's Self-Reflection

It is quite fresh for use of weblog for learning purposes. Every one posted the work on the blog, it seems that we share everything. To be honest, I do not really like this teaching mode. I feel embarrassing when my work is posted on the blog, everyone who login can read what I have done. I also feel that I lost my privacy. On the other hand, I discover that the teaching method does have its advantages when I read Tammy’s webliography. It makes my eyes wide open. It really helps me understand her topic and it lets me know that her work is so good. However, the comments section is not really good ideas among classmates because it is hard to say the truth when the targets you comment on are your classmates, who we meet face to face everyday.


During the course, we always talk about cyborg, human and technology. I think that we can not avoid facing theses topics in the twenty first century. I agree with Donna Haraway said that, everyone is a cyborg. I am a cyborg too. Nowadays, we are surrounding by technology. It improves our life and living standard. With a hundred years, human have been putting much effort in science and technology cause of improving and changing human history. The boundaries between human and technology can not clearly distinguish.


The topics which the course covered attract my interest, especially Donna Haraways’ notion. Furthermore, Ana gives a lot of freedom and help to us when we were doing the assignments. For me, I do not like the weblog learning method as I mentioned before. Overall the course is good and I am really enjoy it.

Yan's Self-Reflection

After been through all the topics in this course, which can really explore my insight in different issues. From learning different theoretical concept that about the relationship between human and technologies in this course, it can enhance me to think more about the influence bring from technologies is getting serious and important to ours life. As the main concept is around to the cyborg through out this course, and it is creating the idea about technology and human is always deep into my mind. So, it makes me notice that cyborg for a human is very common that I even notice of it. And it seems that this can also pointed out that people are already can not be separate with technologies already in nowadays. It is like the topic of playing video game is always treat as very common to everyone of us, but it also show that people are always influence by technology of how to act and choose.
Beside, I also learned different point of view from the use of presentation during ours tutorial. In the presentation, I can have a better understanding about those readings through the detail explanation. Also, it was very effective by using different examples from local or western to be elaborate for the presentation. Therefore, I think that it can make me understand that there are different aspects about the negative and positive side from technologies to human overall from this course.