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	<description>part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh</description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week 10: Full circle.</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/11/28/week-10-full-circle/#comment-128</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks Daniel. Yes, the idea of an everlasting memory of what you read/look at but also an often random wandering that turns out to have a pattern is really interest, and posthuman, I think. I intend to keep a lifestream going and include anything for the next module and also stuff related to my work. But first, I have to get this sorted and submitted today and then get on with the essay. Good luck to you too!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week 11 Render ghosts and the 'new aesthetic'.</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/12/07/week-11-render-ghosts-and-the-new-aesthetic/#comment-125</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Neil

Thanks for those very nice comments - I've actually very much enjoyed your posts (really great use of graphics made them great to view) and twitter chat - I think you had a good Scottish term for that but cant remember it right now! Do keep in touch on twitter as it would be interesting to hear what you're up to. Next term I'm doing the online assessment module. 

I love that term Duvegas! Good luck with your assessment...I have to get on with mine post haste as I'm away over New Year..eek!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week 10: Full circle.</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/11/28/week-10-full-circle/#comment-114</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Grace

Thanks for you rcomments - I think you're right it will need to be reined in a bit as this is my problem. I always want to write longer pieces!. I've written a little about the nature of the lifestream and structure in this weeks blog and would be interested to see what you think?

Good luck with your assignment too and if you want any feedback on ideas then just post or tweet me!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Posthuman pedagogy task: Exopedagogy</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/11/28/posthuman-pedagogy-task-exopedagogy/#comment-113</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks Jen and Neil

Somewhat serendipitously I came across a talk on booktwo.org that mentioned Render Ghosts - fascinating and not unrelated to exopedagogy. I've written more on it in this week's summary and would be interested to hear what you think!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week 10 Summary</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/2011/11/26/week-10-summary/#comment-112</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Grace

I used Weebly for my last assignment and found it really easy and it looked good too. I'll probably use it for this assignment too!

Carol]]></description>
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                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi All

I've chosen to look at exopedagogy for my posthuman pedagogy - you can find it here:

http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/11/28/posthuman-pedagogy-task-exopedagogy/]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week 8: What are you, a freakin' cyborg? What does that mean?</title>
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                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Daniel..it's good to hear you're of the same mind! I find her ideas interesting but her style and what I feel is a lack of relevance in what she says puts me off. I'm all for abstract theories, but the notion of a cyborg as an antidote to sexism, racism etc just doesn't work for me - what relevance does it have for women, women of colour or men for that matter. There is something to be said for the posthuman argument about gender boundaries blurring, but ignoring gender is not going to resolve any problems. I'd think that the transgender community might have an issue with the cyborg argument about a utopia without gender as there may be very strong feeling about an affinity with a particular gender. I think there is a sliding scale of gender but that that's something that has to be dealt with and discussed rather than bypassed. Like you I AM interested in the implications of how technology affects us and can modify us. I remember, when I was writing my PhD, being distracted for 3 hours by playing Doom, and feeling like a character in the game, machine-like, the following morning walking to Uni! Will take a look at the essay thanks!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mumsnet ethnography</title>
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                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Grace

Thanks for your comments - yes I too would probably have used Mumsnet when I was still at home with the kids and had one who never slept! I used to often wish there was someone to talk to outside those times when i went to playgroup as most of my friends were no longer in Glasgow and those that were didn't have kids yet.

Yes, that would be the same Toby Young! :)]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/2011/11/04/ethnography/#comment-41</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Grace

I too looked at the Prezi first and your report made sense of it. However, I liked not quite knowing what was going on on first viewing - and the references to the everyday....cocktails (well they are for some of us:)), pets etc - as it seemed to be representing a community without having a preformed view through a structure (if you see what I mean!). 

It can be frustrating getting to grips with a way of presenting ideas - I had more bother with deciding on a mode of presentation than the actual content. I found it difficult to find a presentation app that would allow me pictures, video, music and enough text option. I tried several and failed so went back to ppt which had its problems uploading. I've looked at Prezi and it seems quite complicated so well done on what you've put together....the only thing with viewing Prezi is it makes me feel a little nauseous as it swing from element to element!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mini Digital Ethnographic Study: Diaspora</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/11/03/mini-digital-ethnographic-study-diaspora/#comment-68</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Daniel, this was so interesting. I too am attracted to the political aims of this project given how apparent it  is becoming as to the extent to which Web 2.0 is not only lacking in freedom by the way it captures our information, but eerily combines intrusiveness with rampant commercialism. I thought the following image - http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2BvMSO/existenz.se/out.php%3Fid%3D41840 - said it all! 

There was some interesting stuff about last year's SXSW (http://sxsw.com/) conference in the Guardian:

'The big idea O'Reilly is touting is "sensor-driven collective intelligence", but since he coined the term "Web 2.0", he seems resigned to people labelling this new phase "Web 3.0". If Web 2.0 was the moment when the collaborative promise of the internet seemed finally to be realised – with ordinary users creating instead of just consuming, on sites from Flickr to Facebook to Wikipedia – Web 3.0 is the moment they forget they're doing it. When the GPS system in your phone or iPad can relay your location to any site or device you like, when Facebook uses facial recognition on photographs posted there, when your financial transactions are tracked, and when the location of your car can influence a constantly changing, sensor-driven congestion-charging scheme, all in real time, something has qualitatively changed. You're still creating the web, but without the conscious need to do so. "Our phones and cameras are being turned into eyes and ears for applications," O'Reilly has written. "Motion and location sensors tell where we are, what we're looking at, and how fast we're moving . . . Increasingly, the web is the world – everything and everyone in the world casts an 'information shadow', an aura of data, which when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mindbending implications."'

I heard someone talking the other day about keeping a handle on students' 'digital footprint', including when they swipe in and out of, say, the library. So, as O'Reilly says, 'the web is the world'

I like this notion of Diaspora taking back autonomy and thinking about social networking ethically. We recently introduced a new management system to deal with all student information and its been a disaster, so I hear one dept are running the old system under the wire. Perhaps, given the current Occupy movement, people are trying in their little way to take some of the power back!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mumsnet ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/10/29/mumsnet-ethnography/#comment-48</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Neil - thanks for all your comments, they're really interesting and useful. The mummy or parent identity is an interesting one isnt it? I found your comment about the reaction to you in shops really thought provoking - how far is our commercial world in particular geared towards an idea of the family (it certainly figures large in advertising). There seems to be some debate around Mumsnet and some comments outside it that if it is for mums then women who are not mums should not be coming on. I suspect that, similarly, a single man would not be well-received and yet there is no reason why anyone would not be able to comment on a lot of the threads which do not even deal with parenthood. Perhaps this is a question to consider in online communities - does the community depend on one binding 'interest' and, if so, is that restrictive? I have to say that, although a mother and now a grandmother (eek!, I dont entirely identify with Mumsnet but that may be because, since my kids have grown up, I am happy to take on another new identity - one not quite my old self but certainly different from the munmmy-me. I think it's also interesting to think about our perceptions of how a mother should be. I think I was not a 'mummy' type and that is maybe why I shy away from Mumsnet a bit, but then maybe everyone on Mumsnet feels that way. As a young mother I did very much rely on a local community playgroup and, although I often felt I had nothing in common with many of the members, the need for contact and support was uppermost and I suspect that's the case for many who dip in and out of Mumsnet as opposed to those who seem ever present.

The youngerkid/teen kids question is interesting - Jeremy suggested that the site would be ripe for discourse analysis. Oh to have time to do that!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mumsnet ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/10/29/mumsnet-ethnography/#comment-47</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks Daniel! Yes, the political influence of Mumsnet was one of the reasons I decided to look at it as one could consider it as activism on the part of (a section of) mothers, or political opportunism on the part of politicians!

I suspect you're right about the demographic. I hate to be stereotypic, but I also wonder if there is something still more engaged about working class communites in terms of RL - I may be way off here though. I also think that a lot of working class (whatever that is these days!) mums might find they are alienated by the tone of the site.

Would be fantastic to do a deeper study of this!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mumsnet ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/10/29/mumsnet-ethnography/#comment-42</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Jeremy

Yes, the site is ripe for a discourse analysis. I would certainly love to look more closely at it and do a more systematic ethnography. I looked very briefly at some research on language ethnography and was interested in the idea of language as 'the key to culture' - http://www.jstor.org/pss/40162836. 

I do think though that there is some kind of combination of their courting of politicians, the identity of the Mumsnet founders (they are in the David Cameron Youtube clip), and the manner and matter of talk on there that gives the impression of 'white, middle class'. There are a couple of interesting 'critiques' (beyond those I cite from newspapers) of Mumsnet on youtube - one by a teenager about Mumsnet and another site called MAVAV (Mothers against video games and violence) and another accusing Mumsnet of anti-men sentiments and attacking it as a site for feminists! The irony of the latter given the debate over mommy blogging, plus it's spoken as an insult!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mumsnet ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/10/29/mumsnet-ethnography/#comment-40</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks for your comments Sian. Yes, the issue with cultural and political capital, as I see it, is that preconceptions might alienate the ethnographer (or, I suppose, prompt allegiance). Mumsnet have been characterised as middle-class, boden-wearing Tories by some and, in the Toby Young piece, as 'a bunch of Guardian-reading, laptop-wielding harpies' (even though they've been courted by both major political parties there is still a perception of them as representing middle-ground politics and middle-England concerns). When I mentioned to a friend I was doing a bit of research on them, she immediately said 'Oh that Tory lot'. I suppose just from a short acquaintance with the site, it becomes clear that there is a wider spectrum of political beliefs evident so a more sustained ethnographic study might tease this out a bit more and clear any preconceptions. I suspect though that a deeper study of the demographic would confirm that the membership does point towards white, middle-class, heterosexual, but I may be wrong. Lopez writing on Mommy blogging has some evidence that there is a certain amount of exclusion from debate about mommy blogging of those from minorities of race/sexuality/relationship status/class. 

I'm not sure, being self-reflexive, whether I would position myself as either user or refuser, but I do feel an outsider. With grown up kids but a young grandson, I've looked at Mumsnet for advice but also know it through a friend with young kids who became quite addicted. I'm not a member and have never posted and I think, were I to look at a deeper study I'd have to think about whether I would do this as a lurker or as a member, probably the latter. I think this kind of study is always going to be a negotiation between our preconceptions and what we discover and, as long as this is acknowledged and dealt with within the matter of the study, then worries over objectivity are moot. Are we ever objective really in any research anyway...I know that my own beliefs, views etc. do colour the way I go about my own research but I do try to make a convincing job of it!

There is another site in the UK called Netmums, which seems more popular in Scotland from what I can see, and it seems to be more concerned with the practicalities of motherhood, such as selling prams online etc. The general concensus among some mothers of young children that I know, is that it is more down-to-earth and relevant to them. It would be very interesting to do an ethnographic comparison!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Mumsnet ethnography</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/10/29/mumsnet-ethnography/#comment-38</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Austin

Many thanks for your comments. Yes, the theme could have been annoying although it was only in the first 3 slides then faded out! Yes, I think Bell is talking about where communities may exclude. He also talks about bunkering in to a avoid the variety (I can t remember exact word he uses) of postmodern living. The paper on Mommy blogging also talks about that phenomena as perhaps being particularly middle class and white (and heterosexual). I should have put references on the end of the presentation but was at my wits end with trying to upload to youtube and forgot! I'll include a bibliogrpahy in my blog this week though for anyone who wants to find the mommy blogging stuff. 
Yes, I'd agree there may be something derogatory or at least ironic in the use of DH and other terms, like Ds (for Dear Son). I've had a quick look at your ethnography which looks really thorough! Will take a look in detail later (have back to back teaching today except for this brief break) and post a comment!]]></description>
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				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/week-by-week/block-2-virtual-communities/building-your-ethnography/#comment-673</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[My ethnography is here on youtube - http://youtu.be/YBCjmSx6_7s and in my blog here http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/

Have spent all day trying to find a medium to present ideas in and ended up settling for uploading a ppt but slideshare wasnt playing ball and youtube did not recognise the sound file. Anyway, enjoy and imagine the soundtrack to Charlie's Angels...:)]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week three: Transliteracy, metaliteracy…..Carol’s head explodes!</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/carolc/2011/10/12/transliteracy-metaliteracy%e2%80%a6-carol%e2%80%99s-head-explodes/#comment-32</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Hi Geraldine

Thanks for this - will take a look. Both views seem to be taking a much more holistic approach that recognises there is more to digital literacy than 'skills'. As with traditional literacy, which is included in metaliteracy and I would guess critical digital literacy, to be 'literate' means more than functional control. It means an understanding of forms, tropes, perceptions, theories etc.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: AI - Avatar Identity - Digital Artifact</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/austint/2011/10/10/ai-avatar-identity-a-visual-exploration/#comment-44</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[HI Austin

Liked the nod to the Beatles...its such a great, and very apt lyric when thinking about SL!]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week 4 Artifact: Worlds Divided</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/stephaniec/2011/10/14/week-4-artifact-worlds-divided/#comment-9</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Really enjoyed this Steph...some great images and really makes you think of the promise and the threat. I agree with you though, just because every technological advance can be used for bad doesnt mean we stop advancing. Writing can be used for good or bad as can anything within our culture and it is up to us to be aware. I suppose one of the problems is how difficult it is to 'police' digital culture.....often its something we have to do ourselves day to day.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Uncanny pedagogy: Fear or fascination in digital learning environments</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/geraldinej/2011/10/13/uncanny-pedagogy-fear-or-fascination-in-digital-learning-environments/#comment-10</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[HI Geraldine

This really is beautiful....and uncanny...as you look around the image it's almost as if new ghostly images come into view. It seems to me to say a lot about presence.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Visual Artefact 1.0</title>
				<link>http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/danielg/2011/10/11/visual-artefact-1-0/#comment-41</link>

                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Love the central image Daniel and I agree with you...it's always been the way...rush headlong into new technologies without taking time to consider their possible impact. A critique of the headlong rush to use technology from 1829 -
 
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carlyle/signs1.html]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Visual artefact</title>
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                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks Austin, Grace and Sian. The newspaper link is now working so you can see the article in its full glory. I think the baby is either pre-natal training or one of those things to stop kids having babies too young by showing them how awful it can be!:) I think the ambiguity of the baby/machine metaphor is really interesting and reflects our ongoing fears about man and machine. I remember seeing a walking life-size toddler doll in Hamleys when I was a kid and being excited but also somewhat freaked out! On the theme of logic and man as machine, it's worth checking out an old book, L'Homme Machine, by La Mettrie an 18th century materialist. He makes all sorts of claims for man as no more than a machine, and that an animal can be trained to be the same, talk like men etc. Fascinating stuff!!]]></description>
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                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[My digital artefact is available here 

http://taddlepoosh.glogster.com/cyberbaby/

It's also posted on my blog although the link doesnt seem to be working, but there are some explanatory words(!) there about it.]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Digital Narcissism?</title>
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                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I like the Debord quote....its a bit depressing isnt it? This is most definitely one of the manifestations of the 'threat' that Hand talks about. The trivialisation of culture, seen most recently in how grubby celebrity news can become, is something we all partake in and can't seem to be able to stop. At the same time, perhaps mundanity ISNT a bad thing...the small detail against the larger crushing elements of society?]]></description>
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				<title>Comments on: Week two: Rhizomes and portals</title>
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                <dc:creator>Carol Jane Collins</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Thanks for your comments Ania - a lot to think about! I guess I say writing because my background is in eng lit and writing is a big part of my life. Even though I totally embrace new literacies, writing is my comfort blanket:) I think too we automatically use writing to refer to what we do online...even the old phrase 'write to disk'. I like the idea of aggregation though.....I think the whole lifestream thing is really interesting and quite challenging to someone like me who really just wants to write papers and so on. The process has opened my eyes to a lot of great websites etc but seeing how it has developed is an interesting process. I like the D&amp;G stuff and need to look at it more. Thanks for the links...I'll take a look at them.]]></description>
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