Archive forOctober, 2011

Mumsnet ethnography

October 29, 2011 | 17 Comments

I really struggled to upload this ethnography as it was originally in powerpoint and slideshare wouldn’t accept it. Have uploaded as a movie to youtube but, unfortunately it’s lost its soundtrack. Just imagine the theme to Charlie’s Angels in the first few slides and I’ll try and fix tomorrow!

Week 5 has been taken up with reading on ethnography, searching online for papers or other sites on ethnography and on communities and trying to find an ‘online community’ that would be interesting and ethically viable for an ethnographic study. In terms of my lifestream, I’ve become aware that I tend to use the same [...]

  The latter half of week 4 has been taken up with the posting of and commenting on our visual artefacts. What has become clear, if it wasn’t before, is just how much a visual representation of any kind is not, as Kress (2005) suggested, a specific symbol, but has as much interpretation involved in [...]

Visual artefact

October 12, 2011 | 8 Comments

Here’s the link to my visual artefact. I decided to use glogster as it seemed quite simple for my simple technological skills and because it allowed me to create an aggregation of images, videos, links and text that had to be thought about as a whole as well as the sum of parts. The poster [...]

Last week’s and this week’s ‘theme’ of visual literacies has provided me with more (literally) eye-opening ideas, links, and resources than is possible to deal with in two weeks. I have loved the pages that my fellow students and tutors have pointed me in the direction of and those that I’ve found, very often, serendipitously. [...]

I’ve been looking back at how my lifestream developed last week, keeping in mind my thoughts on its, possible, randomness and it struck me that, rather than random it was developing in a different way than we normally expect any piece of writing to do so. So I took a look back at Deleuze and [...]