Comments on: I am in awe! http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/2009/11/20/i-am-in-awe/ Part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Mon, 09 May 2011 10:40:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sian http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/2009/11/20/i-am-in-awe/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Sian Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:52 +0000 http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/?p=324#comment-63 Thanks for this amazing feedback on the course Judy, and for taking the time to come in and join us and share your own thoughts on the readings. I agree it's really quite easy to forget to historicise Haraway, but that it's important that we do... If you'd like to join the Skype chat on wednesday evening, please do : ) It might be interesting to talk at some point about possible teaching collaborations between our two institutions! Thanks for this amazing feedback on the course Judy, and for taking the time to come in and join us and share your own thoughts on the readings. I agree it’s really quite easy to forget to historicise Haraway, but that it’s important that we do…

If you’d like to join the Skype chat on wednesday evening, please do : )

It might be interesting to talk at some point about possible teaching collaborations between our two institutions!

]]> By: judyd http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/2009/11/20/i-am-in-awe/comment-page-1/#comment-59 judyd Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:10:45 +0000 http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/?p=324#comment-59 Andy: Thanks for the response...well, selfishly skeumorphs helped us to plug a hole in our arguments. So they were instrumental. But your statement "...sees skeuomorphs as threshold devices that help simulate social transitions" , I like the ring of that. When I was still writing about the Hanau Model School Partnership I did a piece that drew from the literature on Large Technical Systems (LTS)...that talked about the role of translators between organizations and technologies like electrical systems, etc. I have also been much influenced by Leigh Stars work on boundary objects--now that you mention it, I am wondering if skeuomorphs, represent for me, a way of building further upon these ideas about what is happening at the borders/boundaries between technology and practice/culture. You've given me good stuff to think with. Thanks. Judy Andy: Thanks for the response…well, selfishly skeumorphs helped us to plug a hole in our arguments. So they were instrumental. But your statement “…sees skeuomorphs as threshold devices that help simulate social transitions” , I like the ring of that. When I was still writing about the Hanau Model School Partnership I did a piece that drew from the literature on Large Technical Systems (LTS)…that talked about the role of translators between organizations and technologies like electrical systems, etc. I have also been much influenced by Leigh Stars work on boundary objects–now that you mention it, I am wondering if skeuomorphs, represent for me, a way of building further upon these ideas about what is happening at the borders/boundaries between technology and practice/culture. You’ve given me good stuff to think with. Thanks. Judy

]]> By: andym http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/2009/11/20/i-am-in-awe/comment-page-1/#comment-57 andym Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:15:21 +0000 http://digitalculture-ed.net/silvanad/?p=324#comment-57 Hi Judy. Thanks for your contribution. I am interested to hear more of your views on skeuomorphs. Why do they interest you? Hayles for example, sees skeumorphs as threshold devices that help simulate social transitions. This appears convincing but is it too artificial? Or like cyborgs, should we just ezamine skeumorphs metaphorically too? Hi Judy. Thanks for your contribution. I am interested to hear more of your views on skeuomorphs. Why do they interest you?

Hayles for example, sees skeumorphs as threshold devices that help simulate social transitions. This appears convincing but is it too artificial? Or like cyborgs, should we just ezamine skeumorphs metaphorically too?

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