Distance No Object

This week’s activity has seen a marked  increased interconnectivity of postings, comments and a theoretical framework (Deleuze & Guattari)  for the interaction on Pinterest. I decided, rather than offering a detailed narrative, to produce a diagram, to illustrate the nodes of activity. A number of visual metaphors emerged: Pinterest as a ‘digital loom’, the discussion [...]

This has been a very busy week, trying to post comments, following threads, building up a visual log of activity. Here I hope to give a snapshot of most recent activity, offering me a time to reflect and synthesize: Amy posted a comment touching on  ’the fear of technology’, yet technology and humans are very much [...]

I have made a final pin (and updated the anchor image) on my board explaining the activity would no longer be monitored (thanks to Jen for the advice on this). Having been set up for a particular purpose which had now more or less expired, I felt I could no longer give the board my [...]

In one of my previous posts, I questioned the position of the ‘author’ in the context of academic discourse, extended to the visual authorship in case of images. On checking the FAQ page of Pinterest, below is their policy, and having signed up for this through usage, would of course cover all material:  user content [...]

          ‘technology enabling technology’ In a previous posting I reported that Google Earth did not display the graffiti on the wall. Above I indicate precisely where it should be. Jen’s suggestion of fixing may be saved for a rainy day….. Experimenting with thinglink was easy and enjoyable. Thanks to all for [...]

I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep track of what I have been discussing and writing on the various platforms. Over these past few days, there seems an exponential growth of comments. One of the buzzwords in my head is aggregation. In order to be efficient, I need to be using my tags better… [...]

The act of liking on Facebook is now firmly embedded in our culture. the statistics show: 2.5 billion content items shared 2.7 billion Likes 300 million photos uploaded 500+ terabyte data ingested Although it is not always what it seems as far as the likes are concerned, the 300 million photos do not lie. Uploading images [...]

In my recent Pinboard activity, I noticed that on occasion pins get a ‘like’. Other platforms such as Facebook have pages with ‘likes’. Indeed, Pinboard activity is encouraged  to be liked on Facebook, distributing (augmenting?) the effect. I am not a digital markteer, but having used Facebook for many years, I have a certain understanding [...]

What are the implications of re-pinning and switching between the MOOC forum and other platforms, such as Pinterest, but also all the other ones that have been used to build artefacts? In the IDEL module, we were introduced via Sian Bayne’s article to the idea of smooth and striated places (referring to Deleuze and Guatarri) [...]

The MOOC vs. Pinterest board has given me a new perspective, allowing me to raise more questions: are the Pinterest images offering anchor points for discussion, giving a sense of direction to the topics covered? does the Pinterest board build a community where interaction is more conducive? does the Pinterest board operate independently from the [...]

in my reflection on the MOOC, I questioned the position of the ‘author’ in the context of academic discourse, extended to the visual authorship in case of images. Commenting on Steph’s post regarding the Scottish Clan, I quoted Roland Barthes, whose article THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR  offers an interesting perspective. ‘We know that a text does not consist [...]

This Sunday morning I have spent a couple of hours looking at the many comments made on my Pinterest board that keep floating in: my mailbox is being  filled with e-mails about re-pinning, liking, new followers and adding comments. This has been overwhelming, a fantastic spin-off for my MOOC activity this week. I now feel [...]

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This is day 3 following the forum, Looking to the Future “Education of the very best sort” – reflecting on the nature of the MOOC” I am amazed at how much writing is going on. Having in these past few weeks discussed (and in MOOC standards  exclusively) the concept of multimodality and transliteracy, with a [...]

MOOC= no longer the reign of the bullet point (Powerpoint) but the reign of the post (listening to Sian Bayn in the Google hangout who is referring to Cousin 2005, 15.05 mins into video…)

For this week, partly in response to the Kress article and ‘the landscape of communication’,  I decided on extending my  experiment which takes the features of internet communication and connectivenss as a starting point. How can an image turn into a story, and let the open sourcing and tagging appropriate an artefact (i.e. graffiti on [...]

 I thought I would continue with my story, if you remember, the  graffiti image of a heart. In a previous comment, I let the story end (Page not Found). I felt this was a symbolic move, poetic almost reflecting the emotional tension in the artefact. Today I was considering a link to another website, until [...]

A wonderfully elegant definition of visuality by Hal Foster (1988) , referring to the way in which vision is constructed in various ways: how we see, how we are enabled, allowed or made to see, and how we see the seeing, and the unseeing therein. Gillian’s chapter, which I was fortunately to have read before, [...]

Anyone reading online has experienced the ‘Page not found’ moment. It is accompanied by a computer message revealing the number  404 … is this the internet’s doomed number…? It is a curious event both for the ‘visitor’ and the ‘visited’…. in this timeless and digitally spacious medium, we are confronted with a closed door policy, [...]

by Mike Wesch, see the reference in the Transliteracy article by Sue Thomas et al. the video claims to be the final version… can there ever be a final version?