John's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog » week 7 http://digitalculture-ed.net/johns Part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:02:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Summary of Week 7 http://digitalculture-ed.net/johns/2009/11/18/summary-of-week-7/ http://digitalculture-ed.net/johns/2009/11/18/summary-of-week-7/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:15:40 +0000 johns http://digitalculture-ed.net/johns/?p=152 Week 7 was mostly spend researching and compiling my ethnography on Irish music. I had wanted to use Prezi for it, but ended up spending most of my time reading posts from the site and going off in various tangents around the web. So when the time came the easiest thing to do was blog it. I found that I needed ideas for structure and ‘voice’, so some of the secondary readings and examples of ethnographies were helpful.

I did find in various forums and sites some resistance to technology- some people were suggesting that technology was great for spreading music- youtube, forums, meeting people- then there were those who seemed to be very protective of the music- I think they felt threatened that using the web would somehow take away from the essence of a traditional session. And the irony being that they used the web to say this! Might be interesting in the future when bandwidth opens up to see realtime collaboration- I imagine there would be some resistance to this also.

It also struck me once again just how much info is available- a lot of people in ‘The Session’ suggested just looking up a tune in Youtube if you wanted to find it- a lot of the users I came across weren’t too tech saavy, but passion for the music drove them to understand forums, up/downloading, file management, youtube etc. – their usage of technology was directly related to their activities in real life.

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