“The cyberpunks were the first generation of artists for whom the technologies of satellite dishes, video and audio players and recorders, computers and video games (both of importance), digital watches and MTV were not exoticisms, but part of a daily ‘reality matrix’. They were also the first generation of writers …who had grown up immersed in technology but also in pop culture, in the values and aesthetics of counterculture associated with drug culture, punk rock, video games…comic books and …gore and splatter SF/horror films”

My understanding of immigrant is the opposite of this model but on a wider scale.
During the past few days I myself have felt a bit like a digital immigrant…Faced with the Technological giant Twitter! – I had never really warmed to it in the past and this was one digital pool I firmly kept my toe out of. I felt peripheral, full of hesitancy…– definitely outside of the native camp. – dare I say it, a “tweejit”!

So for me, the term immigrant refers to those of us who find themselves with their toes clenched away from these digital pools.

I am overcoming my Twitter phobia…one tweet at a time.

An agent avatar is an interesting construct – the implication being that the avatar does things without you.

“experience is the new reality” – Sian & I were at an interaction design event last night and one of the speakers was talking about his app/game being built on the principle of ‘experience’. I think this has particular meaning in this field/space, but it seems like quite an empty concept when used like this. If you think it’s happened, that’s an experience, I guess?

I noticed the mention of the digital native in your accompanying text, Nikki – who is an ‘immigrant’ in digital culture? I’d like to see or hear more about how you’re thinking about this.