Ulmer's Ch1-2

Ulmer, introduced the terms of “mystory” and “internet invention” indicating that the new technologies might affect our daily life, working field, family, and community and that we can use the internet to communicate personal memory with all the institutions of society. The first step to develop mystory is to search for personal wide image and use wide scope image to produce meaning by assessing how a feeling evoked by an image, what image reveals about the world and how the world works (p.10). In addition, in order to generate the image of wide scope, the “emerAgency” is a useful tool that propose to use digital networking and internet as invention bank to develop wide image in specialized disciplinary and public policy arenas.

Mystroy can be divided into four different institutional discourses as a popcycle that includes family that one enters oral culture, community that one enter literacy, entertainment that one enter “electracy”, and career that one enter specialized disciplinary. “Popcycle” refer to "the ensemble of discourses into which members of a society are 'interpellated that is social and psychological process of identity construction occurs through four dominant institution: Career, Family, Entertainment, and Community” (24-25).

In addition, Ulmer also talked about Image and how the images become a method in designing mystory and supporting a new order of thought and expression. She also mentioned how to connect an emotional meaning to an image for generating felt. I was wondering how do I connect image to emotional feeling and what my wide image could be. I begin to thinking about where I come from and looking for images representing Taiwanese’s national culture.

Taiwan Indigenous. Today, because of government intervention and education, there is increasing interest in Taiwan's aboriginal culture. Facial tattooing is an old cultural tradition of the Taiwan's aboriginal culture. Facial tattoos also served as symbols of honor in aboriginal, for example for men who were skilled in headhunting, whjavascript:void(0)ile in women they represented virtue. The aboriginal lived in tribes, and their clothes signified tribal authority.









Yin & Yang
The concepts of Yin Yang indicating the union and harmony of opposites has existed long time in Eastern philosophy. The influences of yinyang are easy to observe in Eastern culture, but its conceptual meanings are hard to define. Yin yang is a dynamic balance of all things, and harmonized structure in Chinese society.