Books… every day I find myself physically surrounded by endless numbers of these wonderful media. In discussing framing, Kress (2005) identifies “our long domination in the West of writing as the culturally most valued form of representation: and more, the long association of the mode of writing with the equally dominant, valued and powerful medium, [...]
Writing is precisely that space in which the persons of grammar and the origins of discourse mingle, combine, and lose each other until they are unidentifiable: writing is the truth not of the person (of the author), but of language. This is why writing always goes further than speech. To consent to speak of one's writing,... is merely to tell the other that one needs his speech. (Barthes, 1994, p.8)Barthes, Roland
Although I am certain that I will consider and embrace different (perhaps opposing) perspectives of writing throughout this week I liked this quotation. Barthes has given me a base line to work from / on when pondering all things semiotic. Barthes, R. (1994) The Semiotic Challenge. Translated from French by Richard Howard Berkeley: University [...]
Week Two – Overview
Building upon what I had encountered in the previous week I felt a move from thinking about cyberculture in ‘technology’ terms to its consideration through a wider lens, that in effect cyberculture as an entity is part of a many-pieced jigsaw. This week has encouraged me to reflect on the value of perspective. That the [...]
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Picture perfect
How does if at all, the use of color contribute to the creation of dystopian/utopian associations? The street scene above from the pre-schoolers TV program Balamory is used as a setting for a happy environment where all problems may be resolved and life is pretty much picture perfect. The houses in this program are painted [...]
Recursivity
Visual representation of the recursive relationship between ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’ Bell (2001) Storying cyberspace 1: Material and symbolic stories
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Week One – Overview
Thrown in at the deep end!…Week one has presented questions about the subject of cyberculture and what it means / doesn’t mean to me. Initially my concern lay with the structure of my Tumblog to the extent that I needed it to sufficiently convey how I am feeling and how I am thinking. That in [...]
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Digital desensitization
With each generational wave, our level of expectation from technology and the digital realm continues to rise. Digital has become commonplace, standard, that which is required as a starting point. Today’s digital native uses a very different digital base line to measure life against compared to the digital immigrant. Has our constant absorption of [...]
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