Nikki's E-learning and Digital Cultures site » Reflexivity http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib Nikki's E-Learning and Digital Cultures site - part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Thu, 30 May 2013 09:29:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Malkovich – second order cybernetics http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/2013/03/20/malkovich-second-order-cybernetics/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/2013/03/20/malkovich-second-order-cybernetics/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:51:17 +0000 Nikki Bourke http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/?p=426 On thinking of Von Foerster’s reflexivity theory, the idea that “the observer of systems can himself be constituted as a system to be observed” (Hayles, 1999) I am forced to re-consider the full potential and impact that observance [and by default, participation] may have had upon the ethnographic study carried out earlier in this module. This is sitting in a new light. The ethnographer viewed not simply as a bystander, witness, account taker but “as a system to be observed”.

]]> http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/2013/03/20/malkovich-second-order-cybernetics/feed/ 0 History repeats itself / coiling down into the future… http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/2013/03/01/history-repeats-itself-coiling-down-into-the-future/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/2013/03/01/history-repeats-itself-coiling-down-into-the-future/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:17:16 +0000 Nikki Bourke http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/?p=341

I love this quote [above]. Thought it fitting given the ethnographic course content that we are currently covering. Highlighting the value of  the reflexive methodological approach.

 

History repeats itself / coiling down into the future…

 

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  • Johnnydeeps (2008) History repeats itself A.O.S. available: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIL-uFB7cIc [accessed 01.03.2013]
  • Foucault, M. (2007) Space, power and knowledge. I: During, S. The Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge pp. 164 – 171

 

 

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