Bell (p.107) appears to be in agreement with Kevin Hetherington’s suggestion that ‘community’ is an outdated vague term, and that perhaps we should revisit the erstwhile sociological notion of Bund. Hetherington notes Freund’s (unenthusiastic) view of Bund as ‘a place for the expression of enthusiasms, of ferment, of unusual doings’. Bell, furthermore, suggests that this notion [...]
From the remixing of the online manifesto; to Bell (p192) describing Jones’ questioning ‘why we continue to hold up face to face interaction…as the best way to relate to one another and as the building block of community’; to happening upon an article which talks about how Apple will probably do away with skeuomorphism after [...]
(Image and thoughts not finished) Thinking about Rheingold’s social petri dish analogy and experimental education – an edcmooc visualisation in a dish.
Week 5 has been different and, in fact, doesn’t quite feel finished yet. I have been continuing to monitor responses to my artefact. I’ve been very pleased to see that, on the whole, the piece elicited the types of responses that I’d hoped for and more besides. I’m particularly pleased with the discussions around capitalism [...]
One of the most striking comments that I received to my digital artefact was the following: It seems that aoosterwyk felt a significant emotional response to the fact that other people had drawn similar conclusions to the content as she had. I think it’s unclear whether aoosterwyk was seeking this ‘validation’ in order to satisfy [...]
Trying to prepare myself for the ethnography exercise which will be an entirely new experience for me. Tag cloud is from wikipedia entry for ‘Ethnography‘
Apparently the stories have been circulating for some time about creatively named wifi networks, but I must have missed the memo. So when I saw this whilst standing at the bus stop today it amused me. A bit of googling later and I found that this is a common practice and that there are several [...]
Two of my most dreaded things came to pass last week – (1) tight turnaround and (2) a response based not simply on words. Yikes! Oh, and not to mention the fact that the resulting digital artefact will be available to some 40,000+ MOOCers! But, it’s done now and the cybersky hasn’t fallen in – [...]
I love this adaptation of Bendito Machine which Chantelle found and displayed as part of her digital artefact. As well as being very funny and a good commentary on the themes behind the original, I think it’s interesting that this version of the video has now been anchored to a particular physical geography. It’s also, [...]
My very, very lo-fi representation of the blurring of boundaries between some of the binaries which Merchant (2007) discusses. The birds, bees and butterflies are busy cross-fertilising between notions which seem immutable; often going about their business unnoticed while the tree branches get thicker and more immovable. The fruit of their efforts, however, is starting [...]
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