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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Lifestream Week 8
The work on digital ethnographies dribbled over into this week with continuing comments on the ethnographic studies of others in the class, and feedback to those kindly commenting on my own ethnographic study on the GA-MMA community. I made a … Continue reading
Spacewar – virtual worlds circa 1972
You may be amused to read an account of virtual worlds and computer gaming circa 1962 to 1972. You needed imagination to play then! As you needed imagination for the MUDs and MOOs of the early 1980s. This is an … Continue reading
Week 7 Summary
This week has been busy with putting together the data gathered for my ethnography on science bloggers. I spent a number of hours trying to organise the information to make it easier to understand but the zoom-in/zoom out tool of … Continue reading
Posthuman – Connected
“Posthuman” as a term is used quite widely and in flowery prose for a range of aggregations of human and other external entities… machinery as in the cyborg, with bionic devices, sensitivity to the environment, connections with others, remote sensing … Continue reading
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Mini ethnography – the virtual choir
Oops forgot to say where to leave comments…. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-virtual-choir Against this post would be great – thanks in anticipation
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EDEDC Class Friend – David Richardson
This is a links page for the convenience of my class friend, David Richardson (Twitter @_djcr) http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/week-by-week/block-3-cyborg-learners/ …/block-3-cyborg-learners/weeks-8-9/ …/block-3-cyborg-learners/weeks-8-9/bring-a-friend-to-class-2/ …/block-3-cyborg-learners/weeks-8-9/weeks-8-9-readings/ …/block-3-cyborg-learners/weeks-8-9/discussion-questions-week-8/ tweet using #ededc wallwisher wall http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/posthuman2011
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Week 7: Some breathing space….
This week I was in the relaxed position of having posted my ethnography, partly because I misread the timetable and partly because I knew I wouldn’t have time to do much later on in the week. This meant that … Continue reading
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Week 8 is here….
Welcome to block 3 – time has gone quickly and this is our final course section. The micro-ethnographies are coming together – still a couple to come but the majority are in and looking terrific. We suggest spending a few more … Continue reading
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LifeStream Reflections Week 7 – Singers adopt YouTube
This week my lifestream has been centred on further exploring the phenomenom of the virtual choir. I have visited the VC FaceBook group and browsed testimonies of individual participants. One member Songuine sums up what she has gained form being … Continue reading
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Playing at being an ethnographer
Designing the ethnography was a tough task and I spent a lot of time, perhaps too much, preparing for it and then writing it up. Towards the end I felt it grew out of proportions and somehow took over me, … Continue reading