WEBCAM RITUALS AND STEREOTYPES
Webcam and its many rituals have created consumers to
play a marketed product in a field of technology that has become a popular game
of viewing. Whether of a business use or
a public use, Webcam is playing with public to supply the views. People are dating, chatting, viewing places,
and some are doing business on-line across the distance to make sure they get
their view. Dates are more personal for
that who’s on the other side via satellite by webcam. Dating also creates a telecommunications need
to see what someone looks like because of
attraction to keep interested.
Chatting becomes more of a want to talk and see as if visiting in
person. View of places such as a
research site at the South Pole the “Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sits at
the Earth’s axis on a shifting continental ice sheet several miles thick” as if
waiting for Sasquatch to appear (www.usap.gov, p. 1).
WiseGeek off the internet notes, “Businesses often use webcams for video
conferencing” (www.wisegeek.com.,
p. 1). With all this use of
technological telecommunications of Webcam, people are creating rituals of
needed timely business of getting their live view of what their wanting to look
at by Webcam.
The stereotype webcam is receiving from all the public
rituals of webcam use has caused a lot of public reactions that have left
positive reactions, and some negative reactions. Of the positive, there are the powers of
viewing live on time to get the needed you are there. The negative stereotypes are when as Wikipedia
(2013) states, “users do not wish the continuous exposure for which webcams
were originally intended, but rather prefer privacy.” Another negative stereotype of webcam is
hacking. This is “the fraudulent process
of attempting to hack into a person’s webcam and activate it without the webcam
owner’s permission” (p. 7). The
positives do outweigh the negatives when it comes to viewing with the power of
telecommunications of webcams powers to see who’s on the other side. Security does protect Webcam as technological
communications advancement for today from crime, and has its laws for usage per
user.
Webcam has given the insights of the rituals and
stereotypes of its telecommunications technological everyday use that has
benefits to what I may want in the future for my telecommunication
experiences. Webcam is a current popular
culture that will always have its positive and negative aspects of rituals and
stereotypes to what consumers want for its use.
At least the positives outweigh the negatives. I see Webcam as telecommunication technology
for a view, yet needs protective rights for usage against possible
hackers.
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November
28, 2013, from www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spweb.cam.cfm
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2013).
Webcam, (p. 7). Retrieived
November 22, 2013,
from
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam
wiseGEEK. (n.d.).
What is a Webcam?, (p. 1).
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