Secrecy, intrigue and twitter

I’ve been watching the new pope being sworn in (does a pope get sworn in?) and all of the tradition and the pomp & circumstance which surrounds the occasion. Secrecy and intrigue are clearly paramount in this process, apparently the Sistene Chapel is swept on a daily basis to ensure no listening devices have been [...]

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Place(s) of edc’bund’MOOC

On an earlier post in which I attempted to very loosely assign attributes of the edcMOOC to the notion of ‘bund’, Jen set the following challenge: “Another bit of the Bund definition… “a place…”. Thoughts?” I’ve gathered together on the linked pinterest board a very shallow collection of ‘places’ which were occupied (and some are [...]

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Breaking out

I have spent a lovely afternoon outside of my Tumblog reading and commenting on my colleagues’ virtual ethnographies. I am currently pondering boundaries, walls and place in on line communities. Image found at: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/watso425/architecture/2008/02/

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Virtual Ethnography

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Week 7 – review

Panic (ethical dilemma), calm (new topic), panic (not working on Tumblog), calm (2 entries done), PANIC (media not working), calm (media working). To be continued… …It’s Thursday of week eight and I’m doing a weekly summary for week seven. This about sums up how far behind I feel that I have dropped in the last [...]

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Guerilla Gardening connections

This was one of the artefacts that I was going to publish within my virtual ethnography on guerilla gardening. This is from Social Collider which reveals connections between conversations on Twitter. Apparently, it shows how a topic (here: guerillagardener) link or don’t link with other users or topics and the action is tracked temporally. Because [...]

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Ethical Dilemma

Last week I had a last minute decision to change subject for my ethnography. I had wanted to keep with the themes of disruption and urbanisation that I’ve explored at times throughout this tumblog and so I was observing a guerilla gardening community. Whilst I was limiting the observations to publicly available discussion forums and [...]

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Week 6 – review

A week which has left me less sure about what community means than I ever would have expected. It was good to return to Bell. I like his style of writing; it’s almost conversational which, to me, works well within the context. The piece gave a great overview of the shifting sands from which one [...]

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Digital Medicine – Machines for Living

BBC article about how implanted digital sensors might send health data to medical professionals to prevent diseases. This presents a potential paradox to the *non-human* Internet of Things and Blogjects that Bleeker discusses.

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Fishy behaviour

I carry out task based lurking behaviour (Kozinet’s 2010 p.26) on many subjects – one of which is keeping tropical fish. I’m a beginner and I like to learn how to do things properly so I google many questions and that often leads to searching through fora to get hints and tips from ‘real people’ [...]

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