I found this video – Visual Ethnography. It is a brief overview of using film as a way to construct and present ethnographies. About 3.30 minutes in, there is a film of an interview with a documentary maker, Jean Rouch, talking about how he decided to avoid using music in his films. This has made [...]
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Looking over the feeds, I seem to have been trying to blog/share items that I have picked up from the radio. There is definitely a theme arising here - blame it on Bladerunner – human/digital technological interaction/fusion/evolution. I’m not sure how to label this, but I think it is visible from the … (I don’t have the vocabulary for [...] What my lifestream means to me I think I understand what the lifestream is. It is an application which enables you to catch information from the internet (the purple arrows). You do this with the use of RSS feeds and the like. This all goes into your lifestream and makes up part of it. However, [...]
I have found the theme of transliteracies really interesting, even if I am not completely sure what the term means, yet. As you can see from this week’s posts, I’ve been looking on YouTube for videos which explain the concept, but they all seem to be saying different things. Maybe this is just because there [...] http://www.flickr.com/photos/39473327@N05/sets/72157622488219487/
I wanted to look at the things we ‘read’ and yet which don’t contain writing. I tried to organise this around a lifecycle. The digital artefact is made up of a series of pictures which tell a story of life, from beginning to end. It presents some of the ‘signs of life’ that we may encounter.
Attempting [...] This week has taken me into the orality vs literacy debate – the debate that posits that literacy enables higher levels of thought than orality. This brings me to this, the video you may have just watched. If you go to 1.58 mins in, you’ll get to a great quote describing the the character Medb ‘a corrupted and corrupting [...] I dare you to watch this and keep a straight face all the way through. Having said this, I think that the video does show how complex the idea of transliteracies is, and also how engaging. swfobject.embedSWF(”http://www.youtube.com/v/hx3SC1DbT8o&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-150-youtube-1″, “425″, “344″, “9″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); In my quest to understand what transliteracies is/are all about, I found this, but is it media literacy or transliteracies they are talking about? There seems to be either some confusion or some overlap. swfobject.embedSWF(”http://www.youtube.com/v/sk4Cw8vrDuM&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-148-youtube-1″, “425″, “344″, “9″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); http://www.katepullinger.com/studio/webtaster/part1.htm Another way of reading? |
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