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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Lifestream 6
Week 6 meant starting work on the ethnography and so the lifestream featured notes from the field and bookmarks to related resources. However, for me it was still about visuality. The notion of a visual turn got deeply buried into … Continue reading
Summary: Week 7
This week my focus has been mostly directed towards the digital ethnographic study of the Diaspora community. I freely admit that I have really enjoyed the study, but even more so, diving into this exciting new social network. I see … Continue reading
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Tagged diaspora, Facebook, Ning
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Ethnography
Reasons for my choice This story starts with the reason I have chosen the science bloggers group for this ethnography. I am not a joiner of groups, in fact the only membership I have is with TES, so I did … Continue reading
Mini Digital Ethnographic Study: Diaspora
Introduction Diaspora is a distributed social network running on a collection of open source personal webservers across the Internet. Diaspora is a community of passionate users who control their own data, control who sees it and who can harvest it. … Continue reading
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Tagged diaspora, ethnography
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Lifestream Week 7
The EDC11 ethnographic study was completed over the weekend, and provided to allow comments by others on 31st October. It was very interesting to see the other studies as they slowly became available… and I commented on those where I … Continue reading
LifeStream Reflections Week 6 – It is a community, is it networked learning, is it a GME?
This week, through the artefacts encountered in my life stream I have been thinking about the extent to which the Virtual Choir constitutes a community. Engagement with the choir centres around a single online event or performance on YouTube. The … Continue reading
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Another Planet
I have been cooking up another project…. the appeal of utopian “Other Worlds” and projecting identities into them (see Gee, 2003). The creative experience of imagineering such a world, making it plausible and “real”, and inhabiting it in a social … Continue reading
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Week 6: Magpie lifestream
It’s been a strange week in my lifestream. Last week was very much focused on finding information on ethnography and on online communities, with an emphasis, once I had decided to look at Mumsnet, on all things woman and blogging/chatting. … Continue reading
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