Joanna Price

Biography
Joanna enjoys word games, mean and clever humor, talking to herself, the internet, tarot cards, not letting people into her room, coffee, conversation, certain people, sometimes poetry, and you know, stuff. Joanna really does not enjoy big crowds of people, really loud things, skinny jeans, or that stretchy feeling in her eyes when she stares at screens for too long. She hardly ever finishes what she starts but she did manage to graduate in Spring 2009.

Community Involvement
I served on Council for a while, it was pretty funny.

Academics
What?

Division I
Like, distro courses, right? I don't remember.

Division II
I did this thing where I took a lot of classes and then formed them into a concentration at the end. To my surprise, I wasn't actually majoring in computer science. Who knew?

Division III
I'm writing a book. It's about big things affecting small things and love. It's pretty in my mind but unfortunate on paper. I think it will get better.

= Division III =

''This article is part of a Climax Div III Issue. By Yonatan Schechter, Staff Writer.''

Joanna Price's Div III, entitled "A Case Study on the Application of Mass Opinion on the Individual Experience: the Effects of Technology on the Individual Experience of Love", looks at the effect of a group identity such as the internet or media on the individual experience. She states, “The way to examine this is by looking at how individuals incorporate this [the group identity in question] into their every-day life.” She felt that any individual experience could be studied in this way, but her focus was on modern technology’s effect on the individual aspects of love and sex. Joanna found that there were three ways effects that could be applied to other cases of the group/individual relationship. The first is the recognition of cultural context, e.g. identifying what is going on. The next way to understand the relationship between group identity and individual experience is to separate emotional reactions from individual thought. Finally, the third way to try and understand this relationship is that by accepting group opinions as true, we turn something that is not “real” into a hyper-real monster. To explain this last method Joanna says that we have to understand that social-construct is imaginary. Joanna thinks that the applications to the individual are at least as important as the information itself and tried to write her Division III with that thought-process in mind.