Chantelle's E-learning and Digital Cultures site » virtual community 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 Ethnography – arrival: Understanding street art http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/2013/02/26/ethnography-arrival-understanding-street-art/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/2013/02/26/ethnography-arrival-understanding-street-art/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:10:12 +0000 cmeckenstock http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/?p=523 I have started researching this whole domain of Street Art: I googled the word street art and street art documentary yesterday. Today I am looking at the development of street art from the perception of vandalism to art and hoping to ‘arrive’ at the idea of a community today.

]]> http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/2013/02/26/ethnography-arrival-understanding-street-art/feed/ 0 Virtual communities that are potentially interesting http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/2013/02/22/virtual-communities-that-are-potentially-interesting/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/2013/02/22/virtual-communities-that-are-potentially-interesting/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:56:48 +0000 cmeckenstock http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/?p=446
I am starting to write to ask permissions from potential sites for my study on virtual communities. If I hear anything back today, I will go ahead with my plan, if not, I will choose another area of study which may be more on the public domain.

In the past I have spent considerable amount of time looking at some of the support sites for various information either for my interest or for friend’s needs. Some of these demonstrate a strong sense of a virtual community and to the point that it became a place where I was checking it to touch base with the things that are being posted on these particular sites.

Then there are other forums which are advertised on Linked in which I have signed up to but had never had the time to post or even lurk. Partly most of these contain some advertising agenda, or news which I had little use of at the moment in time.

Another site which came to mind which had a particularly strong community was a course in Life Writing with Oxford University. However this was three years ago. This was particularly interesting as the course participants were really supportive of each others writing and life stories, and some still kept in contact after the course.

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