We are adding to culture in what we post or otherwise contribute albeit by way of nano increments. Sometimes those increments can be decisive and influential – out of all apparent proportion to their value. This is often apparent in the media world and previously in the publishing world. This may be because the artefact [...]
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The blurring of the distinction between the online and offline worlds is persuasively argued by Gies. The improvement in visual and audio technology enabled by Web 2.0 and broadband enable many more clues to offline identity to be offered or if we want to put it that way left behind. It occurs to me that [...] When information is abstract A cyborg contains the elements of a human allied with some mechanical, electronic or even bionic elements. It can be humanoid in form as with for example a human with an electronic hand or it can be primarily robotic with human elements implanted like memory. It can be creatively non or superhuman in form but [...] The ghost in the new image of the Cyborg machine-being, new diverse voices, styles of discourse and viewpoints promise a post feminist Cyborg-ism. That is the message which I take overwhelmingly overwhelmed from Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto. Only from new ideologically neutered constructs and concepts can the phallus-centred baggage of the past be swept aside [...] There is a knock on your heart and a voice says: “They call me Alice. I am light-light and nano-invisible like ether. I was not born. I just am. I can be animal, vegetable and mineral, as I wish. I am here to save yourself from yourselves. I watch, I learn, I record, I react and [...] I want to focus on the types of virtual association I have observed with 10 of the 12 mini-ethnographies read by me so far. For me the breakdown appears broadly like this: In that strange way a bad week is followed by a good one, I managed to work steadily and evenly on my project through the week. I decided on power-point (which became Slideshare due to the size to which it grew) because I was not happy with my last voice-over attempt and because this time [...] This was a tumultuous week. It was decided that my wife needed an operation and that the best place was 200 kilometres away. We were both very nervous and she really needed it earlier than it came so the pressure was increased and life was anything but normal for a while. On the ethnography front there [...] During this week I reflected on two topics: assessment and ethnology. On assessment I quote here from my own blog because I had to summarize anyway to get to the heart of the matter. ‘From any assessment procedure at postgraduate level I expect the following: Positive: What did you like about my contribution and why? |
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