Project Objectives
We would like to highlight some common norms that actually hinder interaction between online users, so that these particular norms can be brought to people’s attention. It is our goal to make it critical enough so that people start to realize that some habits or preferences of ours online can cause misunderstandings and confusions. The technique is going to the presentation, the speech and we also will use some clips from famous YouTubers to make it more evident and convincing. We have done lots of researches, but there are not many materials that are useful, because the evolution happens too fast and the new cultures assimilate into the online communities way too easily. Some of us do question about the new cultures and somehow don’t like it, but it is not due to personal preferences or prejudice, it is just the way itself makes some of us uncomfortable and confused. We understand that most of us behave freely without boundaries and considerations because we are all hiding behind the screens, it makes us reckless about what other people are actually feeling or experiencing, because we don’t see their facial expressions and we can’t feel the anger and grievance. We want to bring the hidden guilty out of the surface so we all finally can review our behaviours online. Of course, to some people they behave in some ways because they are just following the custom going around them, so they don’t understand why some other people don’t do the same or can’t seem to catch on, that’s why it is our intention to show people what some seem to be very common attitudes or behaviours can be odd and unfamiliar to other people. Therefore, they get to be reminded that something common to the majority can be weird to some other online users.
Rationale For Topic Selection
Firstly, this research aims to eliminate cross-culture gap in the cyberspace. The existence of internet is not new to the world, but it was not advanced and access convenient to begin with, now it is rather easy and affordable to be used everywhere. Tons and tons of current users overlap with new online users, cybercultures are being formed online as more and more people use the internet. We rarely have to face consequences even if we behave out of the line, so we take advantage of the situation, we start to do whatever we want fearless, mostly this happens because we are just following what other people are doing. When more and more people are doing the same thing, even if the action is not really appropriate but we still accept it, that is because we unconsciously feel the rush to conform to the society, we start to re-evaluate some norms when they become more common and trendy. In the end, we just follow the custom. We should not contribute to the issue, we need to realize that it is up to us to make this virtual world a better place. We are not calling anyone out as if some norms are better over others, but clearly the online communities could have been a better place, it could have been more peaceful, it also could have been a place with less communication hindrances. We would like to increase awareness of some unhealthy norms online so we can provide a better experience with other online users. It is completely not wrong to develop new norms and make it becomes trendy and common, but we do have to consider other online users’ feelings. Secondly, this research serves the purpose to contribute to the level of professional development of the group members. This research is capable of helping us to have a better understanding about the cybercultures, so that we can at least embrace the differences in culture and adapt to it very quickly. Culture is something long-term, no one can easily alter what it is like, and how it works, but I do think that we don’t have to always conform to some norms that are obviously going to cause more dramas or issues, we can still be ourselves and keep good values in ourselves, knowing that there are some people out there who do feel the same as you do.
We would like to highlight some common norms that actually hinder interaction between online users, so that these particular norms can be brought to people’s attention. It is our goal to make it critical enough so that people start to realize that some habits or preferences of ours online can cause misunderstandings and confusions. The technique is going to the presentation, the speech and we also will use some clips from famous YouTubers to make it more evident and convincing. We have done lots of researches, but there are not many materials that are useful, because the evolution happens too fast and the new cultures assimilate into the online communities way too easily. Some of us do question about the new cultures and somehow don’t like it, but it is not due to personal preferences or prejudice, it is just the way itself makes some of us uncomfortable and confused. We understand that most of us behave freely without boundaries and considerations because we are all hiding behind the screens, it makes us reckless about what other people are actually feeling or experiencing, because we don’t see their facial expressions and we can’t feel the anger and grievance. We want to bring the hidden guilty out of the surface so we all finally can review our behaviours online. Of course, to some people they behave in some ways because they are just following the custom going around them, so they don’t understand why some other people don’t do the same or can’t seem to catch on, that’s why it is our intention to show people what some seem to be very common attitudes or behaviours can be odd and unfamiliar to other people. Therefore, they get to be reminded that something common to the majority can be weird to some other online users.
Rationale For Topic Selection
Firstly, this research aims to eliminate cross-culture gap in the cyberspace. The existence of internet is not new to the world, but it was not advanced and access convenient to begin with, now it is rather easy and affordable to be used everywhere. Tons and tons of current users overlap with new online users, cybercultures are being formed online as more and more people use the internet. We rarely have to face consequences even if we behave out of the line, so we take advantage of the situation, we start to do whatever we want fearless, mostly this happens because we are just following what other people are doing. When more and more people are doing the same thing, even if the action is not really appropriate but we still accept it, that is because we unconsciously feel the rush to conform to the society, we start to re-evaluate some norms when they become more common and trendy. In the end, we just follow the custom. We should not contribute to the issue, we need to realize that it is up to us to make this virtual world a better place. We are not calling anyone out as if some norms are better over others, but clearly the online communities could have been a better place, it could have been more peaceful, it also could have been a place with less communication hindrances. We would like to increase awareness of some unhealthy norms online so we can provide a better experience with other online users. It is completely not wrong to develop new norms and make it becomes trendy and common, but we do have to consider other online users’ feelings. Secondly, this research serves the purpose to contribute to the level of professional development of the group members. This research is capable of helping us to have a better understanding about the cybercultures, so that we can at least embrace the differences in culture and adapt to it very quickly. Culture is something long-term, no one can easily alter what it is like, and how it works, but I do think that we don’t have to always conform to some norms that are obviously going to cause more dramas or issues, we can still be ourselves and keep good values in ourselves, knowing that there are some people out there who do feel the same as you do.
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