Monthly Archives: October 2011

Lifestream Week 5

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Austin Tate

My lifestream shows continued commenting on Digital Artifact entries for classmates… and I produced a few more images of my own artifact. There were some very amusing visual effects when I entered the OpenSim region on which the artifact is … Continue reading →

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Ethnographic Studies on GA-MMA

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Austin Tate

After some discussion with the group and my tutor, Sian, I have chosen to do my ethnographic study on the Gerry Anderson Model Makers’ Alliance (GA-MMA). I did some preparatory work, got some facts and figures together, etc. I started … Continue reading →

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Finding a community

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Grace Elliott

  I know there are lots of online communities out there but I am struggling trying to find a suitable one for my ethnography.  I have spent quite a few hours searching, unsuccessfully. Made a start with looking at something I’m … Continue reading →

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Week 4 Summary

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Kevin Shawn HUDSON

I tossed around ideas for my visual artifact for most of the week.  I went from playing with PowerPoint, and Xtranormal, to doing a photo mash-up.  The technology wasn’t the issue, but the focus of the artifact was.  I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Lifestream 4

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

While discussing uncanny pedagogies, Bayne (2010) lists Lifestream as an example of something that captures the spectrality of one’s digital existence. What is this digital existence? Hook (2005 in Bayne, 2010) deconstructs it as a ‘disembodied presence’ and, what is … Continue reading →

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Limit to Limitlessness?

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

The ‘unheimliche’ liquidises boundaries in various areas of ontological significance and so disrupts the sense of presence, time, space, nodding to Delueze and Guattari’s interweaving concepts of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation. Due to that, online learners and tutors are rendered as … Continue reading →

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AI – Avatar Identity – Beneath

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Austin Tate

An ususual view from under the water looking to all the clones and avatars above the water’s surface. Following a rescue trip to bring out stranded avatars (me, he, she, us, them) who had got knocked into the water…

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AI – Avatar Indentity – Machinima

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Austin Tate

YouTube Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sa8Fdc5U-0

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Into the field – week 5

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Siân Bayne

The visual artefacts/artifacts are all up now, and they’re looking really good – so please do continue to drop by them and make some commentary when you can. I think collectively they do a great job both of thinking with … Continue reading →

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Week 4 Summary

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Steph Cronin

The week of the artefact. The theme I wished to present was clear from the outset…or so I thought. The film festival has made apparent that different people can love or hate the same film, find it entertaining or disturbing … Continue reading →

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