Comments on: Where do you draw the line? http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/01/20/where-do-you-draw-the-line/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Thu, 23 May 2013 06:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Amy Woodgate http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/01/20/where-do-you-draw-the-line/#comment-3381 Amy Woodgate Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:03:37 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/?p=44#comment-3381 Exactly! We humanise everything - looking at things through a human lens whereby everything is relative to the human and analysed accordingly in this hierarchy - rather than appreciating we are just one of many things and lenses. Exactly! We humanise everything – looking at things through a human lens whereby everything is relative to the human and analysed accordingly in this hierarchy – rather than appreciating we are just one of many things and lenses.

]]> By: Liam http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/01/20/where-do-you-draw-the-line/#comment-3379 Liam Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:15:28 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/?p=44#comment-3379 In some sense, the irony is that digital (and the binary '0','1' concept it also encapsulates) is discrete, quantised, not a spectrum (from a science/engineering point of view). That in many cases, a discrete value is an applied abstract or reality by human beings (if any of that makes sense - I'm not very good with the words) In some sense, the irony is that digital (and the binary ’0′,’1′ concept it also encapsulates) is discrete, quantised, not a spectrum (from a science/engineering point of view). That in many cases, a discrete value is an applied abstract or reality by human beings

(if any of that makes sense – I’m not very good with the words)

]]> By: Amy Woodgate http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/01/20/where-do-you-draw-the-line/#comment-52 Amy Woodgate Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:06:28 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/?p=44#comment-52 I think there is a perception that we need the 'reality check' because real = safe/known (even when equally new!) however I think this is a culturally held requirement, and often only deemed to be required when known that the entity is not as expected, e.g. when a digital tablet drawing is so life-like it is assumed as a photograph until known otherwise and people seem to "see" the digital cracks and feel less of an emotional attachment. ... Who knows what will happen if holographic chairs are actually created! :) I think there is a perception that we need the ‘reality check’ because real = safe/known (even when equally new!) however I think this is a culturally held requirement, and often only deemed to be required when known that the entity is not as expected, e.g. when a digital tablet drawing is so life-like it is assumed as a photograph until known otherwise and people seem to “see” the digital cracks and feel less of an emotional attachment.

… Who knows what will happen if holographic chairs are actually created! :)

]]> By: Emma King http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/01/20/where-do-you-draw-the-line/#comment-31 Emma King Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:04:07 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/?p=44#comment-31 Interesting thoughts here - was wondering what you think about how we classify things as technology? Interesting thoughts here – was wondering what you think about how we classify things as technology?

]]> By: sbayne http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/01/20/where-do-you-draw-the-line/#comment-30 sbayne Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:39:52 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/?p=44#comment-30 Nice post Amy.Do you think that if we still maintain a clear cultural division between 'digital' and 'other' it's partly because we continue to need to have the 'real' as a touchstone of authenticity, at some level? Nice post Amy.Do you think that if we still maintain a clear cultural division between ‘digital’ and ‘other’ it’s partly because we continue to need to have the ‘real’ as a touchstone of authenticity, at some level?

]]> By: Anabel Drought http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/01/20/where-do-you-draw-the-line/#comment-23 Anabel Drought Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:02:31 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/?p=44#comment-23 It is hard to define things that are not digital or had digital input. Hand (2008) comments that the boundary is hard to draw, I wonder at what point this happened? It is hard to define things that are not digital or had digital input. Hand (2008) comments that the boundary is hard to draw, I wonder at what point this happened?

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