By Nicola Osborne, on December 13th, 2009
Throughout this course I have tried to get a sense of exactly what “Digital Cultures” might mean – the very slipperiness of the term indicates the currency and breadth of possibilities encompassed. Whilst it may refer to a notion such as “digitally mediated cultures and communities”, what is included in such groupings [...]
By Nicola Osborne, on December 13th, 2009
This week I’ve been working on preparing my assignment but, by weird and slightly unfortunate coincidence, I’ve also had a series of presentations to give this week so I have been collating those as well. In fact I’ll start there.
Having shared some very vague ideas in last week’s [...]
By Nicola Osborne, on December 13th, 2009
This week I concentrated on the course readings in preparation for the tutorial on Skype on the Wednesday of the week. Interestingly there is no way to properly represent the Skype tutorial – which was really useful for talking through some of the post human, critical and uncanny views – in my lifestream so this [...]
By Nicola Osborne, on December 11th, 2009
Has a sore sore sore throat. Meh. Not feeling even slightly like I’ve gotten any productive homework done/possible… [suchprettyeyes] 11:07pm via Twitter
The first thing to say is that this is, of course, a belated lifestream summary so a little on why that is. During week 8 I was [...]
By Nicola Osborne, on November 23rd, 2009
Although I will be massaging the order of my posts just a little bit in the next few days this is a short flag up of the fact that my lifestream summaries are written at the weekend – it’s when I have time and fits the timings well – which meant that Week 8, a [...]
By Nicola Osborne, on November 11th, 2009
This will be a super brief summary of the week as I have spent the week quite massively absorbed in my mini ethnography. However I have also been looking at a few different things that are of interest:
Video Search – I’ve been looking at different video search engines for work but something I find really [...]
By Nicola Osborne, on November 2nd, 2009
As I have been concentrating on untangling my thoughts on ethnography and how I will turn a list of tweets and twitterers, and various observations of their interactions into an ethnography my lifestreaming has been more random and peripheral this week so I shall keep this summary brief.
A fair amount of my lifestream this week [...]
By Nicola Osborne, on October 26th, 2009
One of the weird interesting things about reviewing your online activity every week is that you really start to see what you do all day, all evening, through the week. You think you know and then you look back and find new things out. This week I see that I have been really quite distracted [...]
By Nicola Osborne, on October 19th, 2009
I think Lifestream wise there are a few things I want to talk about this week: Podcasts; Twitter; and the perils of automation.
Super Visuals!
First of all though I wanted to talk about the Visual Objects. Although it took me hours and hours and hours to get mind more or less how I wanted it I [...]