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Comment on The Dark Side by Silvana di Gregorio

Silvana di Gregorio — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:45:40 +0000

Since I constructed this virtual ethnography, Valley Fever, removed the video that was embedded on this page and closed down his YouTube channel at the end of 2009. Anna Thoms also removed her video embedded here early in 2010.

Comment on Davidsfarm ethnographic sketchbook by emma

emma — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:48:15 +0000

Great work (thanks for your speech in Berlin!)

Comment on Lifestream, phenomenology and being public by ZAREMA

ZAREMA — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:45:32 +0000

Thanks the author for article. The main thing do not forget about users, and continue in the same spirit.

Comment on Lifestream Summary by University of Edinburgh Students Provide Thoughts on Lifestreaming for their Course | Lifestream Blog

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:07:12 +0000

[...] Silvana di Gregorio In my second week summary, I had blogged that I was still grappling with what the stream could technically capture and that I felt that it could not capture my process when I was reading course material. However, reviewing my lifestream, I feel it gives a good account of my engagement with the course. At the time it seemed a bit chaotic but reviewing it I can see a logical account. [...]

Comment on Gies, embodiment, biometrics and anonymity by Silvana

Silvana — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:03:38 +0000

Hi Henry,

Yes, I read the BdJ’s ex went to another paper so she quickly went to the Times but I think there is a point that she was unable to manage two identities in that she couldn’t keep it a complete secret. She had to tell some people.

Comment on I am in awe! by Sian

Sian — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:52 +0000

Thanks for this amazing feedback on the course Judy, and for taking the time to come in and join us and share your own thoughts on the readings. I agree it’s really quite easy to forget to historicise Haraway, but that it’s important that we do…

If you’d like to join the Skype chat on wednesday evening, please do : )

It might be interesting to talk at some point about possible teaching collaborations between our two institutions!

Comment on Gies, embodiment, biometrics and anonymity by Week 9 Lifestream Summary « Silvana's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog

Week 9 Lifestream Summary « Silvana's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:58:05 +0000

[...] Gies: virtual selves leave many traces, are monitored, and it is difficult to maintain anonymity and multiple identities (see separate blog) [...]

Comment on Gies, embodiment, biometrics and anonymity by Henry

Henry — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:54:21 +0000

Good insights into online identities Sylvana.
I too liked Gies’ views in particular in regards to the online surveillance mechanisms now in place by Google, MI5 etc.
Our online trails is certainly providing ample of evidence of who we are.
BTW BdJ alias Brooke Magnanti cover was ultimately broken by per ex-partners threat to disclose it. I bet she would have been happy to continue to live her two identities for quite some time longer.

Comment on Gies, embodiment, biometrics and anonymity by Sarah Payne

Sarah Payne — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:24:26 +0000

Great blog Silvana.

I have also made a note of the point by Gies that the false identity is difficult to maintain over time. Unless something is actually remembered, the lie is hard to repeat time and time again with accuracy and therefore the lie is eventually revealed.
I have an example myself. I sponsor a child called Alexander and I write to him regularly. As we live very different lives and I do not wish to ‘lord it’, I am careful what I tell him about the life I live, mainly because I am sure that he would not understand most of it as our cultural experiences are incredibly diverse. However, this sometimes worries me because I am editing the truth (by ommission rather than by lies) and I would hate to get ‘caught out’. The most sensible approach would be for me to copy all of my letters and file them to have a reference file, but that is a little too clinical for my liking. So each time I write to him I have to continue the edited version, which feels stunted and sometimes a little forced. Such is the pressure of maintaining an unauthentic identity!

Comment on I am in awe! by judyd

judyd — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:10:45 +0000

Andy: Thanks for the response…well, selfishly skeumorphs helped us to plug a hole in our arguments. So they were instrumental. But your statement “…sees skeuomorphs as threshold devices that help simulate social transitions” , I like the ring of that. When I was still writing about the Hanau Model School Partnership I did a piece that drew from the literature on Large Technical Systems (LTS)…that talked about the role of translators between organizations and technologies like electrical systems, etc. I have also been much influenced by Leigh Stars work on boundary objects–now that you mention it, I am wondering if skeuomorphs, represent for me, a way of building further upon these ideas about what is happening at the borders/boundaries between technology and practice/culture. You’ve given me good stuff to think with. Thanks. Judy