Author Archives: Austin Tate

About Austin Tate

Director of Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute Professor of Knowledge-Based Systems, Edinburgh University

Lifestream Week 8

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Austin Tate

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 →

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Spacewar – virtual worlds circa 1972

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Austin Tate

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 →

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Posthuman – Connected

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Austin Tate

“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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EDEDC Class Friend – David Richardson

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Austin Tate

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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Lifestream Week 7

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Austin Tate

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 →

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Another Planet

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Austin Tate

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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GA-MMA Virtual Ethnography

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Austin Tate

My ethnographic study was of the GA-MMA group… the Gerry Anderson Model Makers’ Alliance. The study is at: http://atate.org/mscel/ethno/ Please leave any comments here.

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B(at), Be, … Z…

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Austin Tate

It’s Halloween from bat, from AT, and this time its not Ai but from Be… and what’s that about Z? See the Holyrood Park blog entry.

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Lifestream Week 6

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Austin Tate

There was an excuse provided by the subject of study on IDEL11 in the last week to look at a “Personal Learning Environment (PLE)”, e-Portfolios like “PebblePad” and “Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)” like WebCT/Blackboard and Moodle. This was actually quite … Continue reading →

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Ai, Ai, Ai …

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Austin Tate

The automated recloning worked just as planned… and after a server upgrade to OpenSim 0.7.2 Dev Master r/17006 the two autoreplacing clones I had set up on the Avatar Identity region reappeared …

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