“Down the Rabbit Hole” day
This dissociation of cultural subject and cultural production problematizes much of the scholarship being done in virtual worlds which depends on the assumptions that subject/s create or exist in relation to objects, but in the messiness of programmable systems, the mixing of subjects/objects into quasi-subjects, quasi-objects, and the pluralization of the relationship between a persons interface and their ‘avatar’, causes one to be immediately skeptical of the reported experiences of people acting through their interfaces in the virtual world. … In short, when exploring culture in virtual worlds, we need to take care in our methodological choices and their assumptions for even the most basic assumptions such as, “my student in my virtual classroom had the same experience as my other students” is likely to be false in ways that are profoundly different than the ways it may be false in a f2f classroom.
Read MoreThe technology can only do so much, nutrition is worth thinking about
Jamie’s Ministry of Food, the celebrity chef’s new TV series, is a powerful portrait of the socially excluded. It also reveals an enduring truth, says Felicity Lawrence: our diet today is as much about class as it always has been – and it will take more than a one-man mission to change that [From Felicity […]
Read Morebail-out be gone
I have to say, that if you vote for the bail-out, I am not voting for you anymore. This bail-out benefits the wealthy in the short term and supposedly supports the rest of us long term, but that’s a fiction. This is Enron 2.0. We can support the rest of use in the long term […]
Read MoreWhen’s an OER not an OER? « Learn Online
In my books, CC By is the only free license. [From When’s an OER not an OER? « Learn Online] — In my books…. CC is just another copyright regime. Public domain is the only free content. If you don’t put it into the public domain, all you are saying is ‘restricted’. CC just says, […]
Read MoreFellowship and Conference
Since Tuesday I have been in Milwaukee visiting SOIS and CIPR as part of my Information Ethics fellowship. I attended a discussion about a possible future conference on translating intercultural information ethics across the situated understandings that term implies across a plurality of contexts. That seems like a great project, I’m happy to help out […]
Read MorePrivacy Work-Around
So, how did the librarian get the word out? By regularly reporting to the library board that no NSL had been issued to any of the city’s 10 branches, which was perfectly legal. Everyone knew that if the chief librarian failed to report that nothing had happened, then indeed an NSL had been served. [From […]
Read Moresometimes… the puppets know… they just know.
—- this is a great little puppet show about neoliberalism with great social and political theoretical basis. from monochrome
Read MoreCrisis in the meaning of meaning
Crisis in the meaning of meaning: Meaning was the once-natural sequence of being, knowing, interpreting, judging, willing and acting . It is this sequence which no longer operates as it did in earlier times. — Sean has some thoughts that inspired me to respond a bit.
Read MoreThe Cape Town Open Education Declaration
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration: Cape Town Open Education Declaration: Unlocking the promise of open educational resources —- I think most people should support open education, if not in this form, then in some reasonable form that admits that knowledge cannot be owned, though it is frequently proprietized into a commodity, that commodity-form, i […]
Read More7 theses to save the world
: A new cosmopolitanism is in the air Globalisation is anonymous control A new perspective for a different approach to action Only capital is permitted to break the rules We, the consumers, constitute the counter-power Sacrifice autonomy, gain sovereignty A state towards which the nation is indifferent Convert walls into bridges! —– This is indicative […]
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