Buffy

While watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer we as a class were asked to look at some of the connections we found between the Computer Mediated Communication today and what exactly the producers of the program were trying to achieve. Most of which is based on our personal observations between the two.


On a personal level I felt that it covered a few things throughout the program. The first one was and is a major concern to people today and that is getting connected to others. Not only are people today continuing old relationships and helping to maintain them but they are also forming new ones. Some of which they are not aware of whom they are meeting. Such is the case in the film where one of the girls meets a demon online.


This has all come about because of the transition to the electronic age. This is exemplified in the world today by Westminster College, part of this being the renovation of the library, to ensure that it stays up to date. This updating process does not include new reading materials instead it is a physical space most of which will be taken up by student using ht computers.


Also is it not odd that during the program the cyber world of the internet became the physical though the actual incarnation of the demon. Is that to say that our thoughts dreams and face book accounts instead of being just something online will become our only means of communicating with people in at the desk next to us?


These are just a few of the thoughts that occurred to me. It is tough to say exactly what the producers were trying to secretly say through Buffy’s adventure. However it is quite probable to say that it was more a means of having the program air that it is to foreshadow their personal opinions on what the future of the Computer mediated Communication has in store for us that we have not yet found out yet. My belief is that they simply are trying to send a message that we need to make sure we look at our information systems as they develop and make sure they help more than they hinder.