By saraht, on December 13th, 2009
I did not know how to encapsulate all I wanted to say about the lifestream in the final post of 500 words. So I thought I would write some:
Tips for Lifestreamers
1, Be aware of how your audiences can affect you. This is a public blog, so you are not only writing for an academic community, [...]
By saraht, on October 4th, 2009
This is long, but worth a watch. Some key points to look out for are:
* we are made via relationships with others, so new media (YouTube, Facebook) could be changing how we see ourselves (13 minutes in)
* analysis of ‘whatever!’
* ‘context collapse’ – videoing yourself for YouTube is like ‘talking to myself’ - you [...]
By saraht, on September 30th, 2009
A utopian view of digital education. Note the ending: how all this pans out is up to YOU.
“‘digitization as a ‘cultural preoccupation’” (Hand, 2008, p 40)
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By saraht, on September 30th, 2009
This is my response to Jen’s comment:
There is so much intertextuality in this video – Rick Astley, mythical beats, a reference to communism(?) – and then the ‘real’ – the enchanted forest – is made clear as unreal when YouTube closes down for maintennace and the whole background turns into what looks like a base for [...]