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 [...]
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. Opening Scene: The prophet considered as an early adopter. @2:28 The dangers of mass media [...]
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 culture. But interestingly it seems that the dominant theme has been the idea of a [...]
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 weeks reading from David Bells Introduction to Cybercultures illustrates these interactions through different types of [...]