Neil's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog » RAOne http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:55:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 LifeStream Summary Week 7 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb/2011/11/07/lifestream-summary-week-7/ http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb/2011/11/07/lifestream-summary-week-7/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:28:38 +0000 Neil David Buchanan http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/neilb/?p=5164 This week has been one immersed in ethnography, both in the making and in the sharing.  I have enjoyed looking at everyone’s work and have got so much out of seeing the results of our readings and our attempts at creating an ethnography.  This has helped bring the LifeStream and the course itself alive for me.  Up until now it has been an intellectual exercise (as well as a constant balancing act between work, study and the miscellany of living) but this week has taken on a shape and a focus that has made digital culture vividly real.

We are on holiday now for a week to celebrate Eid Al Adha, so though I’m not leaving the country, I am travelling up to the North to stay with friends on a date farm.  I’ll have no internet access for much of the time though my readings are all on my iPad.  This will be a new test of how my online presence will be affected by my apparent disappearance.

PS went to see RA.One in which a computer game villain hijacks the “digital rays” which fill the real world and he, yes, crosses over.  Interesting to see what powers he was given in the real world and how again we are still at the stage where the digital world represents a threat.  More on that next week when I become posthuman.

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