Post class Jenkins and Poster

Jenkins and Poster both put forward this idea of the web as being “ Rhizomic”, “Viral”, “Chiasmic”. And this is true to a certain extent. Yes we can be connected with people from the opposite end of the world, receive and give information we never would have had before. The idea that we can share our ideas, art creations, videos, essays and more, the idea that we participate we are active members of this wave. But as much as some aspects of this are great I think it also poses a problem because it makes all these art forms somewhat lose their essence, as Benjamin would say. We are able to show “the world” but it is not the real thing. It is just a copy of it on a screen. Also it blurs the lines of who are the artists, professionals and who are the amateurs. And as it was mentioned in class, what do we believe in all that is said in this abstract place of the web? What do we trust and what do we not trust? Think of Wikipedia, we all use it to look up basic info, but complete strangers wrote that, anyone can change it and what is the background of the person who posted the info. Are they qualified in that field? We know we should not rely in it yet we still do. To finish, I would like to talk about this idea of being connected to the world. This is false. We are connected to people who are just like us, who have the means to have Internet and be connected to us. We are not sharing anything with certain parts of the world that do not have the luxury of having our tools of communication and knowledge.