Comments on: week 8 – summary http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/2013/03/10/summary-week-8/ Gina's E-learning and Digital Cultures site - part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Wed, 09 Jul 2014 20:01:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Steph Carr http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/2013/03/10/summary-week-8/#comment-1735 Steph Carr Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:07:04 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/?p=1260#comment-1735 Hi Gina, I've tried to post this on your 'other' blog but not sure if I've done it correctly - so I hope you don't mind me posting it here too! I thought your ethnography was very interesting. I really liked how you separated your 'workings' from your theorising. It allows the reader/viewer to make their own conclusions in the first instance; which are then justified/skewed/enhanced/dismissed by reading your thoughts in the tabs. Lovely. To add to the conversations with Jen and Candace. I thought the study showed how fragile the understanding of a so-called 'online community' is. It seems to be almost by default that web 2.0 applications receive the 'community' moniker by users and by owners; and they are judged by their users according to pre-concieved notions of what 'community' should look/behave like. The poster who was quite rude about the YouTube group potentially did not understand what YouTube was all about, but perhaps he can't be blamed given the owners are bandying around the word 'community' willy nilly. Hi Gina,

I’ve tried to post this on your ‘other’ blog but not sure if I’ve done it correctly – so I hope you don’t mind me posting it here too!

I thought your ethnography was very interesting. I really liked how you separated your ‘workings’ from your theorising. It allows the reader/viewer to make their own conclusions in the first instance; which are then justified/skewed/enhanced/dismissed by reading your thoughts in the tabs. Lovely.

To add to the conversations with Jen and Candace. I thought the study showed how fragile the understanding of a so-called ‘online community’ is. It seems to be almost by default that web 2.0 applications receive the ‘community’ moniker by users and by owners; and they are judged by their users according to pre-concieved notions of what ‘community’ should look/behave like. The poster who was quite rude about the YouTube group potentially did not understand what YouTube was all about, but perhaps he can’t be blamed given the owners are bandying around the word ‘community’ willy nilly.

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