Morophospace

Bell’s discusion around community and cyberculture seems to me to be completely benign, reflecting some aspects of RL communities and online communities. What interests me is not pure online communities, but what Bell describes as the potential of subculture to evolve. I’ve tried to place Bell in context with my own online activity. I would [...]

This last week has moved my thinking to new places. I feel I have bottomed the artifact argument for myself. Understanding existent artifacts in the digital domain as what they are, simply reproductions, a degeneration of that existent artifact (to different extent). To Born digital artifacts (inclusive of existent artifacts as mash-up) having relation to [...]

Walked into a shop to buy a pair of jeans today (a bargain). I entered a space ‘a branded space’ a space full of signs, a space that engaged my senses and a different sense of self. I’m not usually swayed (to my knowledge) by branded environments, but have been engaged by #edcmooc as a [...]

[Bringing #edcmooc artifact discussion to the fore] Does fascination invite us in? I know that if I see an accident I have to stop myself from stopping and looking (is that just me, am I simply odd?). Or if I witness a spectacle on the street, I will attempt to understand that phenomenon (in some [...]

Virtual ethnography – Transformers, boarding or sign language. Transformers, these people are small boys at hart, but love the Transform in Transformers! Boarding because I’m a child! Or Sign Language, this fascinates me from semiotic perspective, all signs . Did think about 3D printing…

“The capability of eliciting intense interest” (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fascination) Fascination in spectacle. A MOOC is a spectacle and is a fascination, because of scale, and social interaction on that scale, and the potencial that brings. Fascination is more than a smiling face inviting you in, fascination can be uncomfortable, fascination can be pleasure, and fascination does not [...]