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October 22nd
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6:56pm via Watched itGrowing Social Impact In A Networked World - #1 by @kanter http://t.co/KQobm5Gr [anzbau]
6:48pm via Tweeted itThis article proposes a continuum of ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’ as a replacement for Prensky’s much‐criticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Challenging the basic premises upon which Prensky constructed his typology, Visitors and Residents fulfil a similar purpose in mapping individuals’ engagement with the Web. We arg...
Shared Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement.
6:45pm via Bookmarked itCheck out the vid of a presentation on the ‘Visitors & Residents’ principle at the ALT-C conference http://t.co/nGEeHyvR #mscel [anzbau]
6:43pm via Tweeted itThree “takeaways” from the recent ECDL Foundation Forum - Insights in digital http://t.co/1BIb3xz3 http://t.co/CCU1j1Pe #mscel [anzbau]
6:37pm via Tweeted it@Ignatia Webs: Read #MobiMOOC team's best paper award for #mLearning researchIgnatia Webs http://t.co/tcEtJKzg #ededc #mscel [anzbau]
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October 21st
This paper presents a learner-centered model for designing e-learning assignments/activities within e-learning environments. The model is based on constructivism learning theory. The model includes two categories - the learning design elements (comprised of fundamental design elements and collaborative elements) and the learning assessme...
Shared E-Learning and Constructivism: From Theory to Application.
3:15pm via Bookmarked itEdison Research's recent, The Current State of Podcasting explains that:45% of Americans in 2010 have watched or listened to a podcast, up from 43% in 2009. This equates to approximately 70 million Americans 12 and older.The podcast audience has expanded from predominantly "early adopters," to mainstream media consumers in 2010. ...
Shared The Current State Of Podcasting 2010 « Edison Research.
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Liked The Current State Of Podcasting.
3:10pm via Watched itUS Market for mobile learning 2010-15 forecast http://t.co/KGHOB0xQ #mscel [anzbau]
3:09pm via Tweeted itThe US Market for mobile learning 2010-15 forecast (Ambient Insight) reports, "US market for mobile learning products and services reached $958.7 million in 2010. The five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is estimated at 13.7%, and revenues are projected to reach $1.82 billion by 2015".
Shared Ambient Insight | International Mobile Learning Research.
3:08pm via Bookmarked it@gfe8 No worries Grace - neither do I. But for me it's the quality of interactions and relationships that counts! [anzbau]
10:32am via Tweeted itThis is a very interesting project and might actually be an instantiation of the Personal Learning Environment that held so much promise a couple of years ago. "ROLE stands for Responsive Open Learning Environments and seeks to put learners in the position to build their own technology enhanced learning environment based on their needs and pr...
Shared Discover the Power of ROLE | role-showcase.eu.
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October 20th
Text is the Net's supreme structuring principle. It also creates its destructive elements - its weeds, moles, acidbaths and bombs. In the age of multimedia convergence, what is there left for text to teach us?
Shared Mute magazine |.
3:28pm via Bookmarked itHow do argument, rhetoric, and writing change in the age of the Internet. Greg Ulmer argues that we are experiencing a shift from literacy to "electracy." Electracy is a "new apparatus" that calls for new practices and new ways of thinking and writing. What are the new compositional and rhetorical practices necessary to navigate electracy? Wh...
Shared Inventing Electracy: A course inspired by Ulmer's electracy.
3:23pm via Bookmarked itThe exploration of an Image by S.A Evans
Shared MyStory Example.
3:19pm via Bookmarked itGamification in Workplace Learning: The Role of Play - http://t.co/4Z5PiPYc #mscel [anzbau]
2:39pm via Tweeted itPosted Anna Katarzyna ROLINSKA joined the group E-learning and Digital Cultures 2011.
2:33pm via On the HubPosted Anna Katarzyna ROLINSKA joined the group E-learning and Digital Cultures 2011.
2:33pm via On the Hub#mscel Via @MindShiftKQED: Is Gaming the New Essential Literacy? | http://t.co/OiJe7XQE [anzbau]
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Liked Aran Levasseur - Peacemaker: Video Games and Learning.
12:32pm via Watched it“not to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but to seek what they sought (Basho)”
Published "not to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but to seek what they sought (Basho)".
11:42am via Found a quoteThis website supplement for Internet Invention features samples of widesites (Web-based images of wide scope) made in my courses at all levels of the curriculum. The methodology was always the same in being based on the mystory genre, and the pedagogy was always the same in involving brainstorming sessions both in class (the "bands" or creati...
Shared Greg Ulmer's Internet Invention website.
11:39am via Bookmarked it“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus” -Published "A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those...".
11:38am via Found a quoteGregory Ulmer's website
Shared Gregory Ulmer.
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11:14am via Watched itFacebook friend tally is associated with differences in brain structure http://t.co/8x55cWJk via @guardian #mscel [anzbau]
10:52am via Tweeted itOnline social network size is reflected in human brain structure http://t.co/kyZDzo7O #mscel [anzbau]
10:51am via Tweeted itFacebook Friend Count Linked to Brain Density [STUDY] http://t.co/IZCV7iFp via @mashable [anzbau]
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October 19th
BB plans to add a 'Share' button to let profs make learning mats free & open."Opener Than Thou?-Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/IjEn4B3g #mscel [anzbau]
8:24pm via Tweeted itInternet trends http://t.co/9IK6g1Wa Mashable summary http://t.co/LXojndZp #mscel [anzbau]
8:19pm via Tweeted itSeven Top Authoring Tools by Joe Ganci : Learning Solutions Magazine: http://t.co/Yjuqekqn [anzbau]
5:42pm via Tweeted it@gfe8 more about blogging and academia here http://t.co/3KhVgkZh [anzbau]
5:24pm via Tweeted itWhat to consider when crafting your online identity - http://t.co/3KhVgkZh [anzbau]
5:23pm via Tweeted itWhat is a Google+ Hangout? A Hangout is a video group chat in Google+ for up to 10 people.
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Liked Interview with George Siemens - LE@D, Universidade Aberta.
7:02am via Watched itStephen Downes explains how connectivism works.
Shared Connectivism - Q&A.
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October 18th
Posted Comments on: Visual artefact.
4:11pm via Posted a commentPosted Comments on: Week 3 Summary.
2:41pm via Posted a commentWhile discussing uncanny pedagogies, Bayne (2010) lists Lifestream as an example of something that captures the spectrality of one’s digital existence. What is this digital existence? Hook (2005 in Bayne, 2010) deconstructs it as a ‘disembodied presence’ and, what is more interesting, an ‘embodied absence’. Although the latter refers t...
Published Lifestream 4.
1:48pm via Blogged itThe ‘unheimliche’ liquidises boundaries in various areas of ontological significance and so disrupts the sense of presence, time, space, nodding to Delueze and Guattari’s interweaving concepts of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation. Due to that, online learners and tutors are rendered as spectres and ghosts often experiencing an ...
Published Limit to Limitlessness?.
1:45pm via Blogged itEvery Page of 'Moby Dick' illustrated by Hand - The Atlantic http://t.co/nA0C23ZR - visual mastery and creative bravery! #ededc [anzbau]
12:30pm via Tweeted itPosted Comments on: Visual artefact.
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9:27am via Posted a commentPosted Comments on: Week 4 Artifact: Worlds Divided.
9:07am via Posted a commentUpside Learning Blog – The Complexity Of Learning - http://t.co/VZcfdABT [anzbau]
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October 16th
Posted Comments on: Uncanny pedagogy: Fear or fascination in digital learning environments.
12:54pm via Posted a commentPosted Comments on: Visual Artefact 1.0.
12:53pm via Posted a commentCMALT is a “portfolio-based professional accreditation scheme developed by ALT (the Association for Learning Technology) to enable people whose work involves learning technology to: have their experience and capabilities certified by peers;demonstrate that they are taking a committed and serious approach to their professional development.CM...
Shared CMALT – eLearning Blog Dont Waste Your Time.
12:50pm via Bookmarked itLearning technology is the broad range of communication, information and related technologies that can be used to support learning, teaching, and assessment. ALT is the UK's leading membership organisation in the learning technology field. Our purpose is to ensure that use of learning technology is effective and efficient, informed by researc...
Shared Association for Learning Technology.
12:48pm via Bookmarked itOpen Class review
Shared Rovy Branon - Google+ - First thoughts on OpenClass - New Free Cloud LMS from….
12:32pm via Bookmarked itOpen Class promo vid
Shared Bryan Krusniak - Google+ - Fellow Educational geeks.... what are you thinking about….
12:31pm via Bookmarked itNews about Pearson's new LMS: Open Class
Shared Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education.
12:31pm via Bookmarked itPearson is launching a new LMS, Open Class - a sytem that colleges will be able to use for free, without having to pay any of the licensing or maintenance costs.
Shared News: Freeing the LMS - Inside Higher Ed.
12:29pm via Bookmarked itResearch attempting to answer the question whether a good attitude to technology correlates with good learning habits and looking into the use of technology by younger and older users.
Shared Open University research explodes myth of 'digital native'.
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October 15th
Liked Ollie.
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Liked 4 videos.
12:39pm via Watched it@DGdotNET Yes, I like that too-various interpretations the visual artiefacts lend themselves to #ededc [anzbau]
12:34pm via Tweeted itClever Bots - Radiolab http://t.co/x5Vcu5tI #ededc [anzbau]
12:32pm via Tweeted itTalking to Machines - Radiolab http://t.co/INpXnAxi #ededc [anzbau]
12:30pm via Tweeted itNot only does Sherry Turkle weigh in Furbies, but the episode also hearkens back, again and again, to Turing's early questions about what human capacities computers can replace (or improve). Particularly how imitation can function as effectively as the "real" thing in many cases we might not expect, like when an AI researcher unknowingly fall...
Shared Sherry Turkle on Furbies | SIGCIS.
11:58am via Bookmarked itAs Robot Pets and Dolls multiply, children react in new ways to things that are 'almost alive'
Shared What Do You Mean, `It's Just Like a Real Dog'?.
11:58am via Bookmarked itCOMPANIONS - a study of conversational software-based artificial agents that will get to know their owners over a substantial period.
Shared Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key Social, Psychological, Ethical and Design Issues.
11:56am via Bookmarked itSherry Turkle's article about electronic toys and games seen as 'nearest neighbours' with feelings and needs and the potential consequences, especially in the domain of authenticity.
Shared Authenticity in the age of digital companions.
11:53am via Bookmarked itA group of students going out for drinks. They drink to excess and eat junk food and sing some karaoke. A new student joins them: she can drink and is not getting drunk, can eat a lot and not gaining weight. Something is different with her...
Shared My Friend Helen Full Movie - IMDb.
11:49am via Bookmarked itValue of blogging in academia.
Shared Learning with 'e's: Blogging about.
11:48am via Bookmarked itPosted Comments on: Is scholarly blogging an oxymoron?.
11:47am via Posted a commentBlogging encourages wider participation and generates instant debates. It should be wholeheartedly embraced by early career researchers, says Sarah-Louise Quinnell
11:41am via Bookmarked itPosted Comments on: Visual artefact.
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October 14th
Something to put down in our diaries http://t.co/MGnpFggx #ededc #mscel [anzbau]
7:12pm via Tweeted itPosted Comments on: Lo and behold ....
3:48pm via Posted a commentPosted Comments on: Week 4 Artifact: Worlds Divided.
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10:23am via Posted a commentMy visual artefact on the theme of dystopia and technology …. A bit of background: To paraphrase Lennon, my visual artefact is what happens while you’re busy planning something else. The original idea was to be neutral -something that would combine dystopic and utopian views and possibly blur the dichotomy of the opposite outlooks in [...]
Published Lo and behold ….
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Liked Dystopic Artefact 2011.
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October 13th
Shared senseless_i.
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Shared Share or die’ is the mantra of the 21st Century for those with a....
10:03am via Found a quoteAnna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including live bacteria, interactive media and textiles.
Shared Anna Dumitriu.
9:57am via Bookmarked it“The Institute of Unnecessary Research” presents a new paradigm in the way artists are engaging with the world through transdisciplinary practice and connective aesthetics. Bringing together art, science and philosophy by creating participatory audience experiences, performances and installations. Sometimes humorous and sometimes grotesqu...
Shared The Institute of Unnecessary Research.
9:51am via Bookmarked it‘Coding Consciousness’ represents both the great challenge and great limitation of technology. My aim is to look at how performance can transcend these technological limitations and utter suggestions as to the creative application of life without boundaries - creating a mind free to transcend positional limits by embodying technology.
Shared Head of Digital Simulacra - Luke Robert Mason.
9:40am via Bookmarked itPervasive computing gives rise to new forms of interaction which make users feel shy: concerned about how they are perceived when performing in social interaction, and about what data are being collected about them in the process. This project focuses on exploring an awareness of the situations which give rise to these feelings; how presentat...
Shared Shyness : Supporting Shy Users in Pervasive Computing.
9:31am via Bookmarked itThis year’s citywide events are themed around Utopias and Phoenix Brighton will be hosting a very special exhibition/event organised by The University of Sussex and curated by Helen Sloan of SCAN. The exhibition takes a utopian view of technology and asks how can technology help us be more sensitive and empathetic people.
Shared White Night Festival 2011.
9:29am via Bookmarked itA powerpoint presentation discussing a dystopian view of technology.
Shared From Borg to Replicant.
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October 12th
Various asynchronous conversation models: TalkWheel, Quora and Namesake.
Shared eLearning Technology: Emerging Asynchronous Conversation Models.
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Shared Out worldly encounters.
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October 11th
Shared Visual Artefact: We are the Web.
9:18pm via Liked on FlickrMy perception of the lifestream is undergoing a constant change and as it is being felted to use a rhizome-related metaphor (Bayne, 2004). First I saw it as a mere aggregating tool. Thanks to Carol’s post, I saw it’s something richer than just a piece of software recording my online activity (like a kind of [...]
Published Lifestream 3.
2:10pm via Blogged itPosted Remix theory and academic practices.
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Shared Random Trips and Observations.
11:14am via Snapped itBookmarked The future of education will be open and distributed | Connected Principals
10:45am via To read at bedtimeBookmarked The Inevitability of Open Access
10:44am via To read at bedtimeUse of Posterous and Tinychat on the course in writing and research as an alternative to LMS http://t.co/Cab83hTM [anzbau]
10:12am via Tweeted itA summary of the 'expert discussion' at the conclusion of Day One of the International Monitoring Organization conference Annotations: management of uncertainty ...
Shared Half an Hour: A Conversation on Innovation.
9:50am via Bookmarked itApart from purely industrial and neoliberal paradigms and against the backrground of the emerging knowledge and service society innovation means more than new or better products that generate monetary profit. A holistic understanding is necessary to conceive and use the multiple possibilities of innovations. 'innovation' vs 'Innovation'
Shared IMO - International Monitoring: Understanding of Innovation.
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October 10th
Posted Comments on: Lifestream 2.
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October 9th
This paper argues that transparency promotes interactivity and participation in collaborative Web 2.0 learning environments. Teaching with transparency requires a learner–centered pedagogy for research, writing, and the production of new knowledge in open communities. Transparency is a catalyst for interaction and participation that support...
Shared Transparency as a catalyst for interaction and participation in open learning environments.
10:49pm via Bookmarked itGeorge Siemens, who leads Athabasca University’s Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, makes the case for why colleges should experiment with inviting tens of thousands of students to participate in their courses free online. The model poses challenges to traditional education models, but will it work for teaching Chaucer? Geor...
Shared Tech Therapy - The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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October 7th
sound explorations
Shared remixthebook's sets on SoundCloud.
12:53pm via Bookmarked itThe remixthebook.com website is the online hub for the digital remixes of many of the theories generated in the print book and features the work of artists, creative writers and scholars for whom the practice and theory of remix art is central to their research interests. remixthebook author Mark Amerika, along with co-curator and artist Ric...
Shared remixthebook.
12:50pm via Bookmarked itLiked Isarithm.
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October 6th
“It’s not simply that many colleges are haunted by the ghosts of culture past, but that apparitions of the future are emerging on every screen, in every network. These apparitions are the constructions of distributed mind, the coming-into-being of new forms of human presence, half-real, half-virtual, new forms of social r...
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Shared “simplest and most popular cosmological model today....
12:09pm via Found a quote““haunting is a constituent element of modern social life. It is neither premodern supersti-
tion nor individual psychosis; it is a generalizable social phenomenon of great
import… . The way of the ghost is haunting, and haunting is a very particu-
lar way of knowing what has happened or is happening.”” - ... 11:59am via Found a quote
Shared To think the uncanny in the context of higher education: how are....
11:53am via Found a quoteShared Understanding the uncanny through knitting!.
11:43am via Bookmarked it““The University is, increasingly, a ghostly institution haunted not only by questions concerning the nature of teaching, but also by a sense of its relationship to itself and to its own past.”” - Royle, Nicholas. 2003. The Uncanny. New York: Routledge.
Published "The University is, increasingly, a ghostly institution haunted not only by questions concerning...".
11:30am via Found a quoteTelematic Connections, like many of the works in it, is a hybrid affair. Part history, part speculation, partly onsite, partly online, it crosses boundaries between art, communications, and popular culture. Its four sections include installation works, past and recent film clips, online projects, and a "telematics timeline." Through these var...
Shared telematic connections:: the virtual embrace.
11:25am via Bookmarked itThe main theme is "Communication as Art," a commentary on the impact of telematics in contemporary art and culture.
Shared EMAC Syllabus - Spring, 2004.
11:21am via Bookmarked itPosted Comments on: Rhizomes and portals.
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9:53am via Posted a commentPosted Comments on: Lifestream 2.
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October 5th
Twistori http://t.co/AusKThCF Twitter-based data visualisation [anzbau]
9:37pm via Tweeted itWe Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale http://t.co/TA1A1WiD [anzbau]
9:34pm via Tweeted itLiked 2 videos.
8:58pm via Watched itBlog accompanying the project: Everything is a Remix: an ambitious four-part documentary on the history and cultural significance of sampling and collaborative creation.
Shared Everything is a Remix.
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Shared Understanding like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A....
8:23pm via Found a quotePosted Comments on: The Monster is Within.
9:12am via Posted a commentThe exhibition 'We Are Family' brings a fresh, personal perspective to some of the most difficult ethical issues of our time: What is normal? What is the nature of our relationship with animals? Are some lives worth more than others? What constitutes a family? (From the exhibition essay by Linda Michael http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/wearef...
Shared We Are Family ~ Patricia Piccinini ~ Venice Biennale 2003.
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October 4th
More trips to the uncanny valley
Shared Forum - SeanMalstrom.net • View topic - MS shows off photorealistic avatar prototype.
10:00pm via Bookmarked itFrom Jacking in to the Matrix franchise ... - Matthew Kapell, William G. Doty - Google Books
Shared Biomorph - the Posthuman Thing by Kochnar-Lindgren.
9:56pm via Bookmarked itThe essay traces the genealogy and implications of the emergence of a discourse of ghosts, spectrality, hauntology, and phantoms within the rational machinery of the modern university. Moving across disciplines—including literature, sociology, physics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy—the article contends that the university is at a new mom...
Shared Project MUSE - Pedagogy - The Haunting of the University: Phantomenology and the House of Learning.
9:52pm via Bookmarked itThe goal of cumulative MEmorials is collective self-knowledge. In the testimonial, the maker gives evidence, testifies to the ethical experience, the feeling of duty that abuses me (if it does). My identification with (recognition of) this disaster outside me as a fractal measure of the disaster within makes writable the category of justice, ...
Shared MEmorial.
2:22pm via Bookmarked it'What's next for text?' Writing for Digital Environments Annotations: “We always have wanted to mix word and image, abstract and behavioral space [. . . . and we] have always wanted to put words in motion, dramatize their relationships t...
Shared Revisiting Lanham’s Analyzing Prose « re:MEDIA.ting Scholarship.
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October 3rd
While reading Margrit Shildrick’s paper on monsters, I couldn’t help seeing parallels between a female body she uses as an exponent of a monstrous body and a digital body (being it an individual avatar or technology in general). Shildrick lists characteristics of female bodies (and the bodies of other ‘others’) such as leaky, unstable, l...
Published The Monster is Within.
3:57pm via Blogged itStill playing with my stream, mastering it (by the way ‘master’ is an anagram of ‘stream’). What does ‘stream’ mean. To discover what it means for me, I invite you to play with the letters below:
Published Lifestream 2.
3:43pm via Blogged it‘The issue is not so much that monsters threaten to overrun the boundaries of the proper, as that they promise to dissolve them’ Those boundaries are fluid and permeable, bringing the rhizome concept of Deleuze and Guattari but they do not cease to exist altogether.
M. Shildrick (1996) Posthumanism and the Mons...Published On blurring the boundaries.
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Shared As Shildrick proposes, once biological and social bodies are....
9:24am via Found a quote“… the promise is not one of unproductive, limitless fragmentation, but rather of dynamic new incorporations … the postmodern challenge to humanism is innovative and creative rather than destructive. It is only those who have no wish to cede the authority and power that they hold under the sign of modernism who need fear the monsters.”
Published "… the promise is not one of unproductive, limitless fragmentation, but rather of dynamic new...".
9:13am via Found a quote“… the monsters as signifiers of the radical destabilisation of the binary processes of identity and difference that devalue otherness. Monsters clearly cannot exist apart from ‘normal’ bodies, but at the same time they are excessive to the binary, uncontained by any fixed category of exclusion. Like women, they refuse to stay in place: ...
Published "… the monsters as signifiers of the radical destabilisation of the binary processes of...".
9:11am via Found a quote![What is at issue is the transformatory power of the [monstrous]...](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lshfum1AK91r3sh84o1_500.jpg)
Shared What is at issue is the transformatory power of the [monstrous]....
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Shared It is not simply the power of imagination that defines the....
9:00am via Found a quote“What happens at the boundaries, where the leaks and flows across categories signal not so much the breakdown of security as the impossibility of fixed definition, becomes of crucial importance … At very least [monsters] destabilise the grand narratives of biology and evolution and signify other ways of being in the world.” -
8:56am via Found a quote“As Derrida has shown, the uncontested belief in full self-presence at the heart of the logos, cannot be maintained even by violent hierarchy of the binary. At the very moment of definition, the subject is marked by its excluded other, the absent presence which primary identification must deny and on which it relies. The monster is always with...
8:48am via Found a quoteIdentity process by Kliment Kalchev (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Identity, self is not something given, it’s leaky, unbounded, unstable, subject to ongoing change and growthPublished Identity process by Kliment Kalchev (Sofia, Bulgaria) Identity,....
8:34am via Found a quote“… despite the foundational claims, identity is a matter of process … As Donna Haraway puts it: ‘what counts as human and as non-human is not given by definition, but only by relation, by engagement in situated, worldly encounters, where boundaries take shape and categories sediment’ (1994:64). But those boundaries are never finally se...
Published "… despite the foundational claims, identity is a matter of process … As Donna Haraway...".
8:28am via Found a quote“… the body is the ‘inscribed surface of events’, a text to be deciphered and read. It is not a prediscursive reality, but rather a locus of production, the site of contested meaning, and as such fluid and unstable, never given and fixed.” - M. Shildrick (1996) Posthumanism and the Monstrous Body (and Foucault 1977)...
Published "… the body is the ‘inscribed surface of events’, a text to be deciphered and read....".
8:23am via Found a quote“… the feminine [has been associated] with the limitless, where that implies a failure of the proper, an unaccountability beyond the grasp of instrumental consciousness.(…) Women are out of control, uncontained, leaky: they are, in short, monstrous.” - M. Shildrick (1996) Posthumanism and the Monstrous Body
Published "… the feminine [has been associated] with the limitless, where that implies a failure of the...".
8:20am via Found a quoteAn ongoing attempt to list the best books and articles related to embodiment.
Shared Embodiment Resources - Bibliography.
8:13am via Bookmarked itThe healthy body, the being-in-the-world body, which stresses the unity of matter and mind but although consistently present to us is barely experienced. This body, however, when it becomes broken, diseased or tainted with any trace of ‘otherness’ being it feminine and also ‘digital’ or ‘cyborg’, gets imprinted in our consciousne...
Published How the 'other' body comes into being.
8:12am via Found a quoteShared Education World: The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use.
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October 2nd
“The issue is not so much that monsters threaten to overrun the boundaries of the proper, as that they promise to dissolve them.” - M. Shildrick (1996) Posthumanism and the Monstrous Body
9:56pm via Found a quoteetymology of the word 'monster': Shildrick (1996) uncovers the meaning of the ‘monster’ when talking about the modernist and postmodernist views of the feminine body, which could be referred to the body of the cyborg. The etymology of the word is rich in impli...
Published etymology of the word 'monster'.
9:54pm via Found a quoteWhen I first saw this image of the Monstrous Races, I was just beginning to investigate the idea of the uncanny body - of the material self as abject - in work for which I was photographing surgery. My 1993 piece, Stranger Within, consists of a series of four images of orthopaedic surgery. Here, I was working with ideas of the cyborg and the ...
Shared Equinoxes - A graduate journal of French and Francophone studies - Issue 1.
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Shared A body of the other, the feminine, the black, the disabled, the....
9:35pm via Found a quoteIn this work the interior of the body is represented as a decorative surface; invested with an aesthetic normally reserved for the exterior. Images of plastic surgery were manipulated in Photoshop to present a seductive contradiction to the sensations of fragmentation and repulsion often experienced at the sight of exposed flesh. ...
Shared precious.
9:26pm via Bookmarked itThis paper examines a selection of the photographic works of Alexa Wright, which demonstrate a fascination with the monstrous. While commenting on the works dealing with disabled bodies or bodies displaying a pathology of some kind*/and in which the pathological or genetic condition is reconfigured in such a way that it can no longer be abjec...
8:18pm via Bookmarked it“I wish to celebrate - along with Donna Haraway (1992) - the promise(s) of monsters.” - M. Shildrick (1996) Posthumanism and the Monstrous Body
Published "I wish to celebrate - along with Donna Haraway (1992) - the promise(s) of monsters.".
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Shared assemblage.
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October 1st
Next Generation of Learning Systems - BMW research into augmented reality for technical training - superb! http://t.co/tLpxMA2F #mscel [anzbau]
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September 30th
Masters of Media is the collaborative blog of the new media master students of the University of Amsterdam. The blog launched in September 2006, as part of the new media practises course tought by Geert Lovink, the founder and coordinator of this project. Now in its sixth year the blog is populated by about 50 Masters of Media students of the...
Shared Masters of Media - University of Amsterdam.
7:22pm via Bookmarked itDunne & Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.
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7:17pm via Bookmarked itComputer-assisted images as an allegory of life, death and nostalgia and as a way for an artist to retell her life story.
Shared Martina Lopez Exhibition Home Page.
4:06pm via Bookmarked itDuring the first decade of our collaboration, our work focused on the representation of the body in relation to new technology. Issues of anxiety, identity, transformation, mutation, and the increasing disappearance of the traditional boundaries between the organic and the artificial lay at the core of the series of works produced during this...
Shared Aziz + Cucher Series + Projects.
3:56pm via Bookmarked itIn order to examine the specific contribution art makes to the discourses on future bodies and subjects, the point of departure of this topical focus are the artistic reflections on and realizations of cyborgs. Cyborgs here are not only cybernetic organisms, i.e. link-ups between humans and machines, as they are commonly defined.
Shared Media Art Net | Cyborg Bodies.
3:26pm via Bookmarked itContemporary photographic practice has entered the realm of the imagination, celebrating the virtual and fictitious.
Shared Media Art Net | Aziz, Anthony; Cucher, Sammy: The Dystopia Series: Maria.
3:24pm via Bookmarked itCould ‘digital culture’ refer to ‘an essentially heterogeneous reality’, a flattened ‘plane of consistency’ where’lines of segmentarity’ and ‘lines of flight’ weave into each other, excluding a dichotomy, and a relationship of power, a rhizome in one word (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987). My analysis of a term into a root word and ...
Published Descending the Trees.
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September 29th
Annotations: The linguistic tree on the Chomsky model still begins at a point S and proceeds by dichotomy. mic, etc. ...
Shared Deleuze & Guattari on the rhizome.
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September 28th
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September 27th
… to my Week 1 Lifestream Summary. I went for a wordle representation of the beginnings of my lifestream because I feel it is still in its infancy, when it’s being shaped out of a mass of disorganised threads, scraps and traces left by me on the Web. I wove the word cloud with short [...]
Published Post Scriptum ….
9:56pm via Blogged itPosted Comments on: Getting started with Lifestream.
8:11pm via Posted a commentPosted Comments on: About Me.
7:54pm via Posted a commentPosted Comments on: About Me.
7:45pm via Posted a commentAn alternative to Worlde - distinctive shapes of the word cloud and the possibility of editing out words.
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1:16pm via Posted a commentMARGRIT SHILDRICK Posthumanism and the Monstrous Body Body & Society March 1996 2: 1-15, doi:10.1177/1357034X96002001001
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1:04pm via Bookmarked itPosted Comments on: Lifestream 1.
12:59pm via Posted a commentPosted THE PERSONAL IMPACT OF THE WEB.
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September 26th
Shared Spectral Realism « Fractal Ontology.
10:53pm via Bookmarked itPosted Impact of teaching on identity formation.
10:47pm via Amplified itImportant terms from Deleuze & Guattari explained allowing to understand the concept of a rhizome
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10:44pm via Bookmarked itOn interaction and relationship bn humans and technology - a seamless relationship, not an opposition.
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10:22pm via Watched itA list of new media literacies - this includes visualisation the ability to translate information into visual models and understand the information visual models are communicating. VIsualization has become a key way we cope with large data sets and make sense of the complexity of our environment.
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9:27pm via Bookmarked itAn e-resource on how to be a responsible online citizen http://t.co/mJpOqhOX to be used with high school students [anzbau]
9:25pm via Tweeted itOur Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World. An e-resource to use with high school students to help them reflect and learn about ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environment.
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9:23pm via Bookmarked itPLAY!’s overarching question is, “How can we integrate the tools, insights, and skills of a participatory culture (as defined in the NML white paper) into the public education system in the United States?”
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9:20pm via Bookmarked itShared Home - MoodleTouch (Moodle on mobiles).
8:59pm via Bookmarked itShared Moodle.org: Moodle mobile app for iPhone now available.
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September 25th
Published Lifestream 1.
9:37pm via Blogged itI am a human and as such I am rational, autonomous and have free-will, right? Yet, why do I so often tremble, unsure of myself and world around me? Why do I feel I am on a constant quest, unable to settle down, unable to be ‘one’, but undergoing transformation and fragmentation, me being an [...]
Published Moveo ergo sum.
5:31pm via Blogged itPosted my Virtual Meditation 1 http://t.co/ozU8DlX0 #ededc [anzbau]
4:07pm via Tweeted it“the project of everyware is nothing less than the colonisation of everyday life by technology” - Greenfield 2006
Published "the project of everyware is nothing less than the colonisation of everyday life by technology".
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Shared De-differentiation of skin fibroblast cells. Some believe....
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Shared Circulation - closed circuit or free movement?.
1:40pm via Found a quoteccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
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12:55pm via Bookmarked it“It is argued that digitsation enables and intensifies processes of circulation, flattening, de-territorialisation, and de-differentiation, and for new kinds of objects, subjects and practices to become emergent and convergent in a transition from analogue to digital cultures.” - Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narrativ...
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12:51pm via Found a quote“The consequences of information driven reflexivity are that ‘culture’ is no longer ‘out there’ as ideological, symbolic or representational, but rather [culture] is ubiquitous that it […] seeps out of the superstructure and comes to infiltrate, and then TAKE OVER, the infrastructure itself.” - Hand, M (2008) Hardwar...
Published "The consequences of information driven reflexivity are that ‘culture’ is no longer...".
12:49pm via Found a quoteJanneke Adema's blog. Her current research concentrates on the influence of online information transmission on research practices within the Humanities and on the way the monograph, as an important form of scholarly communication in this field, is being produced and shaped. She will investigate the possibility of the fusion or remix of media ...
Shared OPEN REFLECTIONS.
12:47pm via Bookmarked itBlog on new media, digital humanities, cultural analytics and software studies
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12:44pm via Bookmarked itImagePlot visualization software: explore patterns in large image collections (from Software Studies)
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12:42pm via Bookmarked it“The consequences of information driven reflexivity are that ‘culture’ is no longer ‘out there’ as ideological, symbolic or representational, but rather [culture] is ubiquitous that it […] seeps out of the superstructure and comes to infiltrate, and then TAKE OVER, the infrastructure itself.” - Hand, M (2008) Hardwar...
Published "The consequences of information driven reflexivity are that ‘culture’ is no longer...".
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Shared Information flow, swift and smooth, unobstructed like a....
12:02pm via Found a quoteNotes on media culture, architecture, design, social telematics, spectacle
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11:53am via Found a quote“The Web has become the definitive new media of late or post-modern culture: a largely disorganised and perpetually reflexive culture of information flows and unruly objects.” - Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives of promise and threat, chapter 1 ofMaking digital cultures: access, inter...
11:51am via Found a quote“The flows of digital information have actually become the locus of power, the production of of both difference and value [17].” - Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives of promise and threat, chapter 1 ofMaking digital cultures: access, interactivity and authenticity. Aldershot: Ashg...
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11:40am via Found a quote“Planetary information culture, produced and exchanged through the capillaries of the Web, is at once dis-embedding and re-embedding cultural objects, relations and structures [17].” -
Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives of promise and threat, chapter 1 ofMaking digit... 11:29am via Found a quote“In the context of informational globalisation, culture, […] increasingly circulates as information, detached from national institutional structures, modes of representation, and traditional understandings and operations of power.” -
Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives of pr...Published "In the context of informational globalisation, culture, […] increasingly circulates as...".
11:26am via Found a quote“For some, as (national) cultures become part of seemingly uncontrollable global circulations of information, the stability and perhaps even the existence of traditional institutions, practices and associated identities undergo processes of ‘liquefaction (16).” - Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives ...
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11:10am via Found a quote“Current digital technology in its convergent forms is implicated in all major political, economic and cultural changes at every level of the social formation. Contemporary culture has been technologised on a scale and with a speed that is wholly unprecedented. We increasingly live in a world where nation-state boundaries become permeable, if ...
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September 24th
eXistenZ is advertised as a statement about how humans and the surrounding technologies interact with each other and the most common interaction pattern seems to be that of constant blurring and penetration, including ‘surgical penetration’ in the form of a ‘bio-port’. These bio-ports are quite interesting in a sense that they are lin...
Published Deus ex Machina.
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September 23rd
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September 22nd
Synopsis: A man goes up a big mountain where, in answer to his invocation and in a flood of eerie light, a machine descends from heavens. He brings it down to his compatriots who immediately knock down a bull from the pedestal and start worshipping the Machine. The TV Set, as the machine turns out [...]
Published Love Thy Tech.
10:19pm via Blogged itPosted By: Austin Tate.
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September 20th
Liked 2 videos.
9:46pm via Watched itA science-fiction film showing the interaction between tech and humans. Annotations: psychological statement about how humans react and interact with the ...
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9:22pm via Bookmarked itPosted Comments on: BAT Life Wall - Refining the Idea.
5:59pm via Posted a commentPosted By: Ania Rolińska.
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September 19th
MUBI IS AN ONLINE CINEMA AND COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE FILM
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9:27pm via Bookmarked itTranslating sound into visual forms http://t.co/Uzza9d8E #ededc [anzbau]
9:25pm via Tweeted itOver the past ten years, a significant increase in courses and programs taught through distance education technologies has occurred both in non-for-profit and for-profit colleges and universities. During this time, there have been many successes and failures. The researchers hypothesize that the marginal success and/or failure occurs due to p...
Shared The Context of Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education: Five Enabling Assumptions.
8:43pm via Bookmarked itMade my spring 2011 IDEL blog public http://t.co/D6d9BNqW #mscel [anzbau]
8:31pm via Tweeted itPosted Digital culture.
6:59pm via Amplified itDigital Culture & Education (DCE) is an international inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal. This interactive, open-access web-published journal is for those interested in digital culture and education.The journal is devoted to analysing the impact of digital culture on identity, education, art, society, culture and narrative within social...
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5:38pm via Bookmarked itAn online questionnaire aiming to assess whether the person ready to undertake online study.
Shared Am I ready for distance learning?.
3:48pm via Bookmarked itAn e-book by Daniel Chandler exploring the ways writing is experienced by literary and academic writers.
Shared The Act of Writing.
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September 18th
A paper examining various ways in which students reflect on their experiences in collaborating in an online e-learning environment. A case study by researchers from Deaking University in Australia
Shared Employing wikis for online collaboration.
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September 17th
Johnston, R (2009) Salvation or destruction: metaphors of the internet. First Monday, 14(4). People use metaphors routinely to express their thoughts regarding the Internet’s nature and potential. In a study of editorials over a three month period, writers used metaphors of physical space, physical speed, salvation, and destruction to desc...
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5:36pm via Bookmarked itTheories and Models of Learning for Educational Research and Practice. This knowledge base features learning theories that address how people learn. A resource useful for scholars of various fields such as educational psychology, instructional design, and human-computer interaction.
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Shared bridging the gap between us.
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September 16th
Posted Comments on: test.
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September 15th
Posted Comments on: test.
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September 12th
Experimenting with Lifestream in my EDC blog - fun:-) #mscel #ededc [anzbau]
10:39pm via Tweeted ittesting, testing got in, hurrah!
Published test.
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