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 it is becoming more focused each week. This week I continued my arrival story into [...]
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 with interest how ethnographic research has found its way out of academia and into the [...]
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 each of us interprets one anothers work differently (lifestream 14.10.2011 #1). The title of my [...]
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 the Web” might suit. D
This week my attention has been split between the the ideas of uncanny and ghostlyness encountered in the Bayne paper, as well as our discussions around digital literacy, visual literacy and new forms of learning. Pulling these ideas together into one short weekly summary is proving to be quite a challenge, so I have been [...]
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 “a squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests [...]
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 well with the readings and discussions from last week. However my ramblings across the web [...]