Week One #ededc
Week one has been spent reforming my blog, reading and responding to #ededc week 1/2 themes. My initial response has been to make an attempt to understand just what digital cultures are, that way it should be possible to understand how learning cultures manifest in the digital domain. To start this journey I felt it necessary to begin to understand just what represents a culture. In my first post I introduce John Berger to complement course texts and begin to explore the apparent and the existent. Berger represents in my opinion a necessary visual philosophy that provides a vehicle to understand cultural artifacts in general, so allowing a definition of predominantly ‘digital’ visual culture.
Week one continued with a very simplistic and brief analysis of the ‘Rokeby Venus’ by Velázquez as a cultural artifact, as a response to Sterne and object construction in the digital domain (read post – Why object construction). In my opinion the ‘Rokeby Venus’ attempts to shift a cultural doctrine (as outlined in post – Why object construction). In the same post I contrast the ‘Rokeby Venus’ with other possible artifacts that represent and hold meaning for the church as cultural entity. By making this comparison I have made an attempt to understand what represents a cultural artifact, and so what represents (and possibly defines) culture (?).
My final post at the end of week one has seen me begin to consider the classification of ‘Cultural Artifacts’ that are associated with the digital domain in order to reveal digital cultures. The classification of digital artifacts (and therefore digital cultures) in my opinion needs to begin with a definition of the apparent and the existent, determining what exactly represents a ‘digital artifact’ therefore digital culture.
Concerns:
#ededc is epic! I’m concerned that my posts are becoming to long in order to do justice to initial #ededc theme (with relation to assessment of tumlog)? Also, is the entire blog assessed or just the tumlog?
hi Phil – this is the first year we’ve used the tumblog format as opposed to a ‘lifestream’. So your question about what is and isn’t assessed is a good one. Because you’ve experimented with the ‘portfolio’ aspects of this wordpress theme, you’ve got content broken up into pages, rather than a simple reverse chronological list of posts on the home page (which is what you might be referring to as the tumblog, and what we had more or less expected people would stick with). That might make it hard for us to know which pieces to assess and be sure we hadn’t missed anything. However, if when you submit your assignment you direct us to exactly the categories/pages you want to have included, we can assess the elements that you choose for this purpose. Try to make it easy for us, though!
Makes sense… Thank you Jen.