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ELearning and Digital Culture

Summary: Week 6

Its hard to believe that we are already half way through the term.  The life stream is a great way to review my journey through the course content and I really have the feeling that the content I’m pushing into … Continue reading

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Summary: Week 5

Week five already and I am deep into the groundwork for the digital ethnographic study.  I began this week by getting a good understanding of the practices involved in ethnographic research (lifestream 18.10.2011, #2, #3, #4 and #5).  I noted … Continue reading

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Summary: Week 4

This week we’ve focused on the theme of digital literacies with a particular emphasis on the visual.  We have each explored some really stimulating ideas through the production of a visual artefact, and it has been interesting to notice how … Continue reading

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Visual Artefact 1.0

Hi web, Here’s my first stab at a visual artefact: Or a high rez version here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielgriffinnet/6235758794/ Flickr members feel free to comment there, or here, whichever you prefer.  I’m still undecided on a title for this.. perhaps “We are … Continue reading

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Digital Narcissism?

My fellow classmate Kevin recently used the term Digital Narcissism to describe a phenomenon which seems to be commonplace over the web and is becoming more apparent within our offline culture too.  Mark Zuckerberg, has been quoted as saying that … Continue reading

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Summary: Week 2

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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Nuestro Bendito Machine

I’ve been re-watching the excellent Bendito Machine and have decide to notionally “tag” sections of the piece with my own titles.  You can read this either as my interpretation of the story or as a (tongue in cheek) political manifesto. … Continue reading

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Summary: Week 1

Not too many tweets for the first week so I will have to fill in the gaps a bit… We’ve been discussing two films this week over twitter and in a synchtube session based loosely on the subject of digital … Continue reading

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Cyberculture: Bell

In my summary this week I note that we seemed to be focusing on the unreality of cyberspace, and on how it is a type of shared fantasy world in which our connections are taking place.  The chapter in this … Continue reading

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