Sarah's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog » girl and camera 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 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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