Have you ever heard about “OTAKU”? This word is very accustomed to Asian people, specially Japanese and Korean. In Japanese OTAKU means “Your Home”, but as time goes by it became the negative meaning-who don’t connected with any other just doing their own interests in their home. In other words, I think OTAKU is almost similar meaning with American word “gigs.” In Japanese, some movie about one OTAKU man’s love had been big hits. This movie’s title is “JunChaNam”- the internet guy.
(This photo is the movie poster of "Jun Cha Nam")
OTAKU is the person who has deeper attachment even than mania does. They concentrate only one thing such as Video, Computer Game, and Animation, so sometimes they are destitute of other common senses and other fields of information. In this aspect, sometimes OTAKU means that someone who is not good at communicating with others face to face. They just stay in their own home and communicate with other OTAKU through personal computer in unreality world.
While reading the “First Hand: Connecting to Collaborate: An Interview With Rob Cross”, I found that maybe OTAKU can be “People who are stuck on the edge of a network…” Also Cross said that . In these meaning, OTAKU are the representatives of these peripheral people. OTAKU not only enjoy themselves but also have influent on cultural things. They already become an expert in their interests, also they have eyes for criticizing culture. I think if we are well connected with OTAKU, disconnected person, we can get more useful information in social network.
In “Clive Thompson on Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook 'Friends”, he says that . On the web, it is very helpful connecting channel which can get some useful and various information from peripheral people like OTAKU, so I agreed with his opinion. In this social network, therefore we should not let peripheral people disconnected because they can be the very useful resources of information.
2 comments:
I agree with your opinnion, Futhermore, I think there should be more detail way to contact with them(like an OTAKU). It is obviously that we should tolerate them but in reality, there are no accurate way to tolerate them. According to this matters, there should be more specific suggestions in that article(interview).
The OTAKU you talk about in your post reminds me a lot of the issues I have with virtual worlds. I think with extended use of second life and other similar programs people may lose face to face social skills, which seems like Otaku have problems with. This will be really scary if by 2011 80% of people will have a "second life." That can't make our social skills any better.
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