This is the first week and using the multiple technologies has been an interesting and challenging experience. The lifestream entries this week have been varied and have not truely followed a theme apart from diarising my sometimes unsuccessful battles with the technologies and some early research into the dual images of the internet as a [...]
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So, that was week 1 then was it? Lifestream Initially, I was quite excited by the idea of an assessed lifestream – the notion of stuff that I posted to social bookmarking and microblogging sites being channeled into one place and giving a scattered snapshot of the inside of my head quite excited me. Hell, I thought [...] What I love about studying is the way that the readings can blend and stimulate thoughts on seemingly disparate topics. For example, Poster started me thinking about pornography (along with the WOW Video), which is not something that I would usually muse over!
Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives of promise and threat, chapter 1 of Making digital cultures: access, interactivity and authenticity. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp 15-42. Hand’s ‘dystopian narrative’ seems be one where new technologies provide government and big corporations an increasing level of access to your life and data. What he didn’t mention is the other [...] The use of technologies during the first week has been interesting tthought my first experiences were a little uncomfortable to say the least. Using the course guide helped to a certain extent, but when I had teething troubles not having someone to turn to in person left me feeling a bit [...] Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives of promise and threat, chapter 1 of Making digital cultures: access, interactivity and authenticity. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp 15-42. A classic example of what I think Hand identifies as the ‘dystopian narrative’: I post this because I’ve been reading Douglas Rushkoff’s ‘Cyberia‘, from 1994 and James Harkin’s ‘Cyburbia‘, released this year. [...] Reading this piece and considering the role of ethics in media made me wonder about ethics and morality, and whether they are the same thing? Looking up the terms on www.dictionary.com ethics is described as “a system of moral principles”, and morals as “the distinction between right and wrong”. Sounds simple. They both seem to [...] Page 20 ” for many utopian commentators, the transcendent flows of electronic information described as cyberspace are thought to constitute a paradigmatic change in power relations” Hand talks about the democratization effects of the internet when power is taken away from the traditional centres and distributed amongst other communities. But is this really possible? [...] My first response to the Wow was to smile and tap my feet. However, after mulling it over for a while I began to wonder what the internet was ‘for’. The Internet is for communication – whether this is textual or graphical. However, there is an awful lot of porn out there but this is true [...] After some trials with the technology I have managed to upload my image to the wall wishers page (though I still don’t appear to have a decent feed set up for it) – introducing what I think digital culture means to me. I have to say that at this point in the course I am [...] |
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