Sarah's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog » Mediation of communication http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht Part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Cyberia- Siberia – The Mighty Boosh http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/2009/10/08/cyberia-siberia-the-mighty-boosh/ http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/2009/10/08/cyberia-siberia-the-mighty-boosh/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:28:31 +0000 saraht http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/?p=55 Click here to view the embedded video.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cyberia

Main Entry:   Cyberia Part of Speech:   n Definition:   the computer and Internet world and its virtual reality, the ‘global village’ of electronic communication; also called cyberworld, cyberspace Etymology:   a pun on Siberia Usage:   computing 

 

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  • This is just silly and I am doing it just because I can:
  • The Mighty Boosh – Tundra
  • Cyberia
  • Siberia

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    cybergods

    • http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cyberia

    Main Entry:   Cyberia
    Part of Speech:   n
    Definition:   the computer and Internet world and its virtual reality, the ‘global village’ of electronic communication; also called cyberworld, cyberspace
    Etymology:   a pun on Siberia
    Usage:   computing 

     

    Siberia orange

    ]]>     http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/2009/10/08/cyberia-siberia-the-mighty-boosh/feed/ 70     New media and mediation of communication http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/2009/10/04/64/ http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/2009/10/04/64/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:29:57 +0000 saraht http://digitalculture-ed.net/saraht/?p=64 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 [...]]]> 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 are talking to everybody and so to nobody and so to yourself.

    * people share extremely personal information and feelings via new media* ‘new forms of community promote new forms of self-understanding’

    Having gone through a fairly dire analysis of communication mediated via new media, he ends optimistically – not ‘whatever’, but we will do whatever it takes to change things.

     

     

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