Analyze That

So this blog post is not going to be entirely academic. Although, some might argue that it is. I feel that we're entering a new phase in communications studies. Like the Raymond Williams-esque debate that there is no distinction between high culture and low culture, it becomes apparent that old habits die hard. We now willingly accept television, magazines and pop songs as relevant texts to study the media, yet still have apprehensions about studying computer games as modes of communication. Through my recent foray into Second Life, I can attest to the communicative qualities this online world posseses and the rich textual resource it has been to study. I am not, however, quite as confident when it comes to my HTML skills. I have just uploaded a Second Life postcard of my avatar to this blog, and whether this image will magically appear when I click publish is really one of the last few communications and media studies mysteries of new media mankind has yet to solve.