Merchant (2007) discusses the practice of tagging within blogs and other fora. He suggests that ‘the collection of information, the sense-making, the organisation of information through categorisation and the trading of detail and knowledge describe some of the essential processes of human intelligence” (p.251). He also links tagging to ‘affinity spaces’, as espoused by Gee, [...]
Imperfect future…
My digital artefact. Following responses which identified issues of stereotyping; commodification; exclusion; and elitism in Productivity Future Vision and A Day Made in Glass.
Week 3 – review
This has been a quiet week on my tumblog due to various pressures, but also in some way because of the massiveness of the theme of visuality and literacy. Kress (2004) talks of the multiple entry points available within websites; I somehow feel the same about the topic in hand. From the readings I have [...]
Water damage
This image is a happily coincidental acknowledgement of Footnote 21 in Thomas et.al (2007) and its further link to the theme in “Digitise or Die: a personal reflection’. I would like to add though – that I wouldn’t be too keen on my Kindle ending up in such a state either.
Hijacked
Thomas et. al (2007) explore the concept of transliteracy using a number of phrases which invoke the concept of travel and movement. They talk about ‘crossing divides’ (title); ‘ a going ‘beyond’ or a moving ‘across’ (p.6). I am currently travelling by train down the east coast of England and I’m interested to note how [...]
I heart words…but I don’t always need them
Kress (2004) states that there is ‘a finite stock of words, vague, general, nearly empty of meaning’ (p.15). Candace argues in her tumblog however, ‘there’s an infinite number of ways to put them together’. I think Candace makes a great point here. I’d like to put aside, for the moment, the arguments about the primacy [...]
Put your books away
This was certainly true for me and I love(d) books. So I’m wondering, what made this so exciting?
Week 2 – Review
In order to be a bit more creative and experimental, I wanted to move away from purely text based posts. Prompted by Poster (2006), and in order to question the levels of morality we ascribe to non-human artefacts, I created an ambiguous entity and he/it invited comments on its like-ability. Jen’s response was the type [...]
Rural Cyberpunk
I’ve been struck by the dominance of the ‘city’ in the readings in week one and two. Johnston (2009) alludes to the metaphor of ‘Internet as a physical place’ and quotes Wellman and Gulia (1999) who positively view the impact of the internet as ‘… as if most North Americans lived in the heart of [...]
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