Digitization as a 'cultural preoccupation'

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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Charlie the Unicorn

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 [...]

Week 1 Summary

 

This is very odd. I am writing a reflection on a reflection in a public sphere, so how much of a reflection this is going to be is debatable.

I’m enjoying the thought of the lifestream. Lots of ideas wend their way from the real to the virtual and back again. It’s good to be able [...]

Ying-Yang

Having read Hand (2008) and Poster (2006) during this week, I decided to list some of the utopian and dystopian views on digital cultures:

Digital cultures are good:

facilitate communication,

democracy,

empowerment,

information dissemination,

 ’flattening’

‘moral and spiritual regeneration’

 

Digital cultures are bad:

panopticon

‘information poverty’

‘technical obstacles’

the ‘net elite’

‘unbridled but never-ending choices’ (Hand, 2008, p 31)

Hand (2008) talks of the hyperreal usurping the real. However, if [...]

Digital democracy - 'making' the news

 

‘Brown left irate by “pills” questioning’ http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE58R25420090928

‘Pills’ blogger admits he doesn’t know the facts’ http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2009/09/pills-blogger-admits-he-doesnt-know-the-facts/

This fits with what I have just been reading about.

 ‘The blogosphere and the transformation of journalism, where the ‘broad sheet’ newspapers become more like interfaces in their digital on-line forms, disperse the production of knowledge and cultural commentary among the community. [...]

Hierarchical or flat?

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/reciprocalcc/

An example of digital democracy?

Hello world!

 

I’m late.  The first week is almost up and, as usual, I’m late.

Analogies (metaphors?) of rabbit holes and Alice abound, but at least she wasn’t being watched. Here it is. ’I post therefore I am.’ Who said that?

If there was only one way in, it wouldn’t be so bad. But this digital cultures thing is not like [...]