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Please view my visual ethnography here Introduction I have stumbled upon the Weight Weenies website for this ethnographic study due to a discussion with friends about forums and who actually uses them. I am not an active member of any forum, firstly because I don’t have time and I feel they need a certain level [...]

Just an excuse to advertise parkrun as it is a wonderful friendly community I belong to, that is altruistic ran by volunteers who enjoy running and want to encourage others to do it – Replicating an idea parkrun are weekly, 5km timed runs around the world, that are open to everyone, free, safe and easy [...]

This week I have been focusing on the community groups in a forum called Weight Weenies as you may have noticed!!!! I mentioned it on the discussion board and Jen said I needed to think about ethical issues around using a information from a private groups discussion “because people involved may have an expectation of [...]

ALthough Hine suggests (2000) – traditionally ethnographic research develops an understanding through participation he also suggest that one can do more as a lurker online than in real life due to a lack of physical presence. I have become a member but have yet to participate. I have however come across a barrier to too [...]

My blog this week has focused on the idea of community, having been part of some very different communities recently this is very real to me. I have felt very much part of the ededc community and I been part of the edcMooc community – which felt quite soulless at times, to the #edcmooc on [...]

I have stumbled upon the Weight Weenies website for this ethnographic study due to a discussion with friends about forums and who actually uses them. I am not an active member of any forum, firstly because I don’t have time, secondly I don’t want to put my name on the internet anymore than necessary (I [...]

After a mini break away from all technology – well actually from a World of technological frustrations, I am ready to start block two on micro -ethnography. I hadn’t thought of us at ededc as a community but we are and time away from you guys has left me feeling an outsider and I am [...]

I have spent the week in a remote village in Kenya with no Internet access, no phone and very little electricity. When I arrived I assumed that in places where there was electricity I would be able to access the Internet using the Dongle I bought in Nairobi as I had read that Africa had [...]

Thank you very much Giraf87 for this link The Internet map. This multi-modal representation of the Internet got me thinking about Entry points and how people get to where they want to be on the Internet.This map shows the different sites visited on the internet. I was very surprised to see that although Google is [...]

My Blog this week focused on the ideas of Kress 2005 and the notion of order and entry points and how this has changed with the introduction of multi-modal technology. Although I am comfortable with multi-modality, the change to the notion of order made me feel anxious as I was unsure of which Entry point [...]