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Feb
Monthly Archives: February 2015
9
Feb
Live blogging the readings: Kozinets (2010)
Kozinets, Robert V., (2010) “Understanding Culture Online” from Kozinets, Robert V., Netnography : doing ethnographic research online pp.21-40, London: Sage I thought this was one of the strongest points from Kozinets’ chapter. I thought this also demonstrated some of the...
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8
Feb
Week 4 Reflection
This week I continued to work on a more curated lifestream, which I am enjoying much more. I continue to use a mix of automatic technologies (scheduling, searching, embedding), but putting them into boxes (a box of sounds of the internet,...
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7
Feb
My week on Twitter
Early 20thC cyborg teacher! #mscedc “@Artistwar: Let Professor Tank Teach You A Trade! #WW1 Recruitment Poster pic.twitter.com/dCSkf2CrQP” — Katherine Firth (@katrinafee) February 7, 2015 #mscedc via@NewYorker: net neutrality, democracy, economy, etc http://t.co/M5sl1Bu5aq” — Katherine Firth (@katrinafee) February 6, 2015...
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6
Feb
Gender and robotics
After reading Katherine N Hayles on Cyborgs and Cognispheres (via @sbayne on Twitter), I wondered if the Cyborg Manifesto had had any influence on wider culture. So I did a little unscientific explorations on tumblr (a social media platform with a...
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5
Feb
After the Hangout: What about post-human pedagogy?
Transcript: I’ve worked out my discomfort with post-human teaching. Students are already de-centred in the classroom. (I was reading bell hoooks & thinking about this). They are already understood as “happy robots” (to quote Paul Giroux). They already write & learn for machine marking (in...
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4
Feb
Live blogging the readings: Lister (2009)
Lister, Martin [et al.], (2009) “Chapter 3. Networks, users and economics” from Martin Lister [et al.], New media: a critical introduction pp.163-236, London: Routledge © I’m sitting in front of an open window, as summer rain falls heavily onto our...
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3
Feb
The audio web
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http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound_2013.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/the-mechanics-and-meaning-of-that-ol-dial-up-modem-sound/257816/
http://www.clickhole.com/article/meet-man-who-wrote-song-played-during-dial-interne-1796
http://sterneworks.org/HistoriographyofCyberculture.pdf
2
Feb
Picking a MOOCMOOC
The MOOC I have selected to analyse is MOOCMOOC: Critical Pedagogy. The MOOC runs from Jan 19-Feb 27 2015, and is described as “a mini- micro- meta-MOOC about MOOCs“. [It] leaves behind the traditional LMS-based “course” model of the MOOC, and...
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1
Feb
Week 3 Reflection
This week the blog turned a corner. It ceased to be quite so much about automatic, machine-led, machine readable content, and became more curated. The human reader was brought slightly further back into the picture. In many ways, the blog...
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