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Theory in a Digital Age: A Project of English 483 Students, Coastal Carolina UniversityMain MenuTheory in a Digital AgeRemediationThis chapter will showcase how the remaking of art can leave its impact.Cornel West and Black Lives MatterMacKenzie McKeithan-PrickettDetermination in GamingThe Mind Set and ExperienceThe Hope for a Monstrous World Without GenderIntroduction to "A Cyborg Manifesto" and ThesisFreud's Uncanny Double: A Theoretical Study of the Portrayal of Doubles in FilmThis chapter of the book will look at the history of the theme of the "double" using Freud's Uncanny as the theoretical insight of the self perception of the double in film/cinema.From Literacy to Electracy: Resistant Rhetorical Bodies in Digital SpacesAshley Canter"Eddy and Edith": Online Identities vs. Offline IdentitiesA fictional story about online identities and offline identities. (Also a mash-up video between Eddy and Edith and Break Free.)“Pieces of Herself”: Key Signifiers and Their ConnotationsIs the Sonographic Fetus a Cyborg?How sonographic technology initiates gendered socializationPost-Capitalism: Rise of the Digital LaborerParadox of RaceDr. Cornel West, W.E.B Du Bois, and Natasha TretheweySleep Dealer - Digital LaborBy Melissa HarbyThe Kevin Spacey Effect: Video Games as an Art Form, the Virtual Uncanny, and the SimulacrumThe Twilight Zone in the Uncanny ValleyIntroductionThe Virtual Economy and The Dark WebHow Our Economy is Changing Behind the ScenesTransgender Representation and Acceptance in the MainstreamHow the trans* movement has caused and exemplifies the spectralization of genderA Voice for the Humanities in A Divided AmericaDr. Cornel West on the indifference in our society and how he thinks the humanities can help heal itReading Between the Lines: Diversity and Empowerment in ComicsJen Boyle54753b17178fb39025a916cc07e3cb6dd7dbaa99
Conclusion to Sleep Dealer
1media/virtual labor.jpgmedia/20150227184856-Sleep_Dealer_1.jpg2016-12-14T20:28:37-08:00Melissa Harbyd2f3de6cae22a8e1c9200f1cbdee03483bc87035128888image_header3550702016-12-15T05:22:30-08:00Melissa Harbyd2f3de6cae22a8e1c9200f1cbdee03483bc87035Sleep Dealer - Digital LaborBy Melissa Harby
Conclusion In conclusion, digital labor is becoming a form of machinery to humans. It is diminishing the human value and the emotions of the human mind and body through robots. "Sleep Dealer" was the essential example of digital labor because it showed the viewer the harmful ways in which labor is becoming virtual. The body is no longer in control of itself because of nodes, and the mind is lost in the contraption of virtual reality. Seeing as virtual reality has given new life to humans and work, digital labor is the new wave, and no one is able to stop it. The human mind is going to be under attack of robotic beings because the use of labor is accomplishing more work than actual man. Nodes are the commodity fetish that led to humanity being taken over by robots to do more labor for the United States. In "Sleep Dealer", men and women have nodes to connect to a virtual reality and are treated like machines. Money has become a high value of society due to the amount people out of jobs, and this film is a prime example of humans becoming robots to pay the bills. No matter the cost of human life, mankind is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy their humanity for technology.
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