Chantelle's E-learning and Digital Cultures site » Twittorial http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Wed, 15 May 2013 13:32:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 What is ancient? http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/2013/01/31/what-is-ancient/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/2013/01/31/what-is-ancient/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:56:43 +0000 cmeckenstock http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/?p=213

Facebook vs Twitter

In keeping with my previous post, and after reading Kress (2005), this has to be highlighted!

Facebook is seen as ancient, and Twitter is now more appealing to the younger generation.  Soon perhaps social media will be dominated by lesser words, and perhaps more images?

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” …any delay or distance between doing something and thinking about it is lost in the global information culture.” Hand (2008, p19)  The use of Twitter truly reflects a different culture in communications: immediate, instant, defy physical geographical location.  In the exchange above, it is over three different locations: London, Edinburgh and Houston.   It still amazes me that we can conduct an academic tutorial completely online in this way.

Reference:

Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives of promise and threat, chapter 1 of Making digital cultures: access, interactivity and authenticity. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp 15-42.

 

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