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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Week 8: What are you, a freakin’ cyborg? What does that mean?
My lifestream this week has been taken up with looking at three areas, the latter two as preparation for deciding on and writing my assignment: the posthuman; politics, digital culture and e-learning; and transliteracy. I have to admit, on the … Continue reading
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Week 8 Summary
Being the first week of block 3 I obtained the readings and had a brief look at them but have been significantly distracted by finishing the ethnography. A lot of my learning this week has happened in the ‘real world’ … Continue reading
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Week 9 begins!
During this week we will continue the reading, thinking and discussion on cyborgs, posthumans, and other troubling of established boundaries – building towards next week when we begin applying some of this to the challenge of pedagogy and learning design. … Continue reading
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Lifestream 7
I spent the whole week 7 in the field, tracking down the connections between people, sites and doings within the chosen community (#eltchat). The idea of connectivity established by the three components appealed to me a lot. While jumping from … Continue reading
On the differences between the cyborg and the posthuman
We’ve seen that it is an over simplification to consider the cyborg as a fantastical techno-creature from our most outlandish fiction. For me personally the cyborg represents an enhancement to basic human function through the use of some prosthesis. And … Continue reading
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Summary: Week 8
I began week eight by asking the question, are we already posthuman (lifestream: 07.11.2011, #1)? In many ways, we depend on tools like a mobile phone as a type of cognitive prosthesis, an extra layer of memory which grants us … Continue reading
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Week 8 Summary
It took a little bit of tweaking but I’m now happy to report that the feeds in my Lifestream are working. It does feel good to be able to bookmark sites, save interesting quotes, videos and images. Our focus this … Continue reading
Week 7 Summary
The ethnography task has been interesting. I would until now have consider myself quite distance to the virtual world. However, the varied contributions from the class have been an eye opener to the fact that many communities that I consider … Continue reading
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Posthumans, macro-organisms and DRM dangers
Although the concept of posthumanism has many interpretations, it is primarily considered as an evolutionary change from the human condition to something similar but enhanced in some way. Generally this means enhancement through the application of some digital or mechanical … Continue reading
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Tagged code, cyborgs, posthuman
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Micro-ethnography: TheGlobalWe
Arrival Story: As a person who has little association with virtual communities, other than to keep in touch with geographically distance friends and relatives on a very ad hoc basis, the decision of which community to study was not an … Continue reading