Damien's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog

This week has seen me collating links, videos, blog pages, conversations and a plethora of ideas for my notional ‘Map of the Internet’. As previously discussed, this map will include three notional towns ‘Cyburbia’, Cyberia, and ‘Deadwood’ – the latter a lawless, wild-west like area where we find communities like 4chan, Anonymous and an army of hacktivists.

To these three towns I may add a fourth – ‘Disturbia’, a place for conspiracy theories, investigative blogging, alternative history and guerilla film-making. But I’ll save the details on that until I get to Block 2 and my virtual ethnography…