Monthly Archives: October 2011

The Monster is Within

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

While reading Margrit Shildrick’s paper on monsters, I couldn’t help seeing parallels between a female body she uses as an exponent of a monstrous body and a digital body (being it an individual avatar or technology in general). Shildrick lists … Continue reading →

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Lifestream 2

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

Still playing with my stream, mastering it (by the way ‘master’ is an anagram of ‘stream’). What does ‘stream’ mean? To discover what it means for me, I invite you to play with the letters below:

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Delicious and the lifestream

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Jen Ross

hi again, everyone! As you probably know, Delicious changed hands last week, and the default lifestream feed for the site is no longer working. I’ve solved this for my lifestream in the following way (full instructions for customising the new … Continue reading →

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It’s week three – do you read me?

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Jen Ross

Hi all, and welcome to week 3! The lifestreams are really starting to pick up steam now, fed by the excellent tweets and blog posts from the past two weeks and your other content that is either rushing or trickling … Continue reading →

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Week 2 Summary

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Steph Cronin

Already the beginning of week 3! Whilst reassuring myself that we are still at the beginning of the course I realise that I must remind myself that it is only a 10 week course and the time will fly in. … Continue reading →

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Summary: Week 2

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Daniel Griffin

This week we’ve been considering the themes of Being Human and Other Worlds (lifestream 04.10.2011 #5).  Being somewhat of a gamer and virtual reality hobbyist, the notion of Other Worlds holds particular interest for me and seems to tie in … Continue reading →

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Week 1 Summary

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Steph Cronin

This has been an entirely overwhelming week resulting in failing my personal objective of producing daily contributions, as the week was over before I realised it had begun. Unfortunately, a disproportinate amount of time was spent on the basics that … Continue reading →

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Trials and tribulations of Lifestream

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Grace Elliott

My day has been spent finding my way around Prezi. This application came highly recommended to me so I abandoned my attempts with Tumblr and began exploring Prezi. My plan was to look through the Synchtube session notes from the … Continue reading →

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