Skip to main content

Home/ Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University/ Group items tagged How

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Mike Wesch

Annotated Culture of Celebrity - 0 views

blake.intrasun.tcnj.edu/ted%20culture_of_celebrity.htm

celebrity bibliography fame anonymity

shared by Mike Wesch on 03 Jun 09 - Cached
  • The real contribution of Baker's book, however, is that he sees in Willis's career a host of important issues that drive to the heart of antebellum celebrity culture: the commercialization of intimacy, the marketability of exposure, the public's desire for scandal, gossip, and confession.  Other commentators have described this version of celebrity as a twentieth-century phenomenon.  Baker corrects the record, demonstrating that by 1840, celebrity culture was thriving in the trans-Atlantic world.  -- DHB
  • "The Glorified Self: The Aggrandizement and the Constriction of Self."
  • these players developed a "reflected self" based on their perception of how others saw them
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • and also a "media self," a public image created by the media which eventually permeates the athletes’ public and private lives
  • they underwent a "self-aggrandizement," an inflation of their own sense of self-importance.
  • detrimental to other aspects of the self, even to the point of detachment from personal identity outside athletics
Mike Wesch

YouTube - BanterDude Vs ChatRoulette - Funny ! - 7 views

www.youtube.com/watch

webvideo commentary livechat funny video

shared by Mike Wesch on 10 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Bill Genereux on 12 Feb 10
     
    I'm trying to understand how this doesn't violate YouTube TOS on sexually explicit videos. I guess because it's a puppet with a simulated act, not the real thing, it's ok? I did notice it's flagged as adult only. I have seen some pretty graphic cartoons that are not though.
Bill Genereux

Best thing since sliced bread: Lightspeed users...blocking chat sites...add these NOW. - 0 views

bestsinceslicedbread.blogspot.com/...ersblocking-chat-sitesadd.html

ksudigg edtech education chatroulette

shared by Bill Genereux on 01 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Bill Genereux on 01 Mar 10
     
    Michael Perbix is the school computer tech who is featured in a YouTube video explaining how to remotely activate the laptop cameras at the school district currently in hot water over spying on students. In this somewhat ironic blog post he warns other computer techs they should be blocking chatroulette in school firewalls.
Adam Bohannon

Heidegger 2 Twitter: Technology, Self & Social Networks. - 11 views

blog.semanticfoundry.com/...hts-on-self-interaction-design

heidegger media theory technology design

shared by Adam Bohannon on 06 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Both object and subject are converted to a “standing-reserve”, to be disaggregated, redistributed, recontextualized, and reaggregated.
  • And human individuals, who were once reduced to resources (Frederick Taylor, and the authoritarianism of Human Resource departments), or “eyeballs” in the terminology of internet marketing executives; are now the creative engines of growth, innovation, and creativity.
  • This becomes even more interesting when we wonder about the context and meaning of start-ups intentionally exposing their office space’s ductwork - as if the open office with exposed pipes re-instantiates a manifestation of the hearth, or at least ‘un-hides’ the circulatory system of commerce.
  • ...16 more annotations...
  • Postmodern technology uses the hyper-reality of simulations to get rid of the limitations imposed by reality. The limit of postmodern reality is not the total objectification of nature, but the replacement of reality by virtual reality totally under our control.
  • Borgmann’s antidote for losing our personality to the shallowness and superficiality of hyper-reality is to return to focal activities.
  • It takes commitment on our part to engage in focal activities, but the effort affords us a chance to maintain some sense of self in the technological world.
  • Thus technological rationality can claim that technologies are value neutral, and only uses are good or evil, despite the fact that the uses are shaped by the technologies.
  • And technology leads to new forms of domination. For the critical theorists history has always had domination, but in our time domination has changed from master over slave or lord over serf to the domination of humanity by economics and the market. We are given the illusion of liberty, but that is simply the freedom to choose between brands of mass-produced products.
  • Computer technology further de-contextualizes human experience by emphasizing information over understanding. And computers further domination by providing new means of tracking the productivity of workers to the corporation and depersonalizing supervision; very much a modern panopticon envisioned by Jeremy Bentham.
  • Foucault’s view allows for the possibility that information technology could be used to put people in more direct communication with each other and spread the concentration of power over society.
  • MS Word and freely available blogging software encourages us to constantly revise, so a work becomes a series of drafts, none of which is final (just like this post).
  • Gould’s attitude towards design finds philosophical support in pragmatism. Pragmatism recognizes that everyone is socially situated. Dewey taught that scientific theories or methods of logic are tools used in a certain social practice. Attention to the practices surrounding an object are important to understanding it. Since he viewed knowledge as participatory he argued that learning must come about by doing.
  • Metaphors provide us a way of understanding the world, by associating one thing with another. Powerful metaphors are like magic, and inform how we think of the objects described, revealing hidden aspects of the thing described. New metaphors for the forces in our lives will suggest new ways of living.
  • Metaphors interact with technology in several ways: technology serves as a source of metaphors, new technologies are understood metaphorically, and our metaphors in life pose problems to be solved technologically
  • By developing new metaphors, interface designers can suggest new ways of working with computers. If these metaphors are carefully chosen then they will provide a natural model which makes operation of the machine easy.
  • Just as metaphors can help us understand computers, computers can provide new metaphors for life. Postmodern theories of psychology suggest that there is no single unified “ego”, but that each of us is made up of a multiplicity of parts, while Minsky discusses the “agencies of mind” in his book “The Society of Mind.” Philip Bromberg claims that a healthy personality is one in which different aspects of the self can come to know one another and reflect upon each other.
  • This fluid multiplicity of personality is what gives us our flexibility and resilience.
  • Social networks allow participants to explore different aspects of their personality, to manufacture and evolve aspects of their personality depending on context and mood.
  • While some observers might see this activity as evidence of Heidegger’s disaggregation of the subject by technology, it can also be seen as a model for Bromberg’s self as being one while being many. This is just one way in which computer technology, the internet, and connected social networks can show us a new way of understanding ourselves.
Bill Genereux

The Public Domain - 0 views

www.thepublicdomain.org

copyright creativecommons law

shared by Bill Genereux on 27 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Bill Genereux on 27 Jan 10
     
    "introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws."
Danielle Vaughn

Crossing a digital divide - 0 views

www.financialpost.com/story.html

digital divide media news

shared by Danielle Vaughn on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • So, I began to realize that the digital divide, the generation gap for how people are consuming news, is big and growing.
  • Danielle Vaughn on 17 May 10
     
    I was excited by the headline "Crossing a digital divide," but turns out, he's being praised for another 'divide.' Argh!
Adam Bohannon

How Much of a Typical Video Online Is Actually Watched? - 8 views

www.tubemogul.com/...18

research tubemogul reports onlinevideo attention internet

shared by Adam Bohannon on 19 May 10 - Cached
Ellie K liked it
  • Adam Bohannon on 19 May 10
     
    Online video viewers' short attention span seems especially relevant to advertisers looking to strategically trim ad budgets as the economy contracts. For starters, it is clear that post-roll ads are of limited effectiveness. A three minute video that has a post-roll ad in the final seconds, for example, will only be viewed by 16.62% of the initial audience, on average. Another takeaway is that overlay ads should be displayed as early as possible in a video, preferably within the first few seconds. On YouTube, where most overlay ads appear at about 10 seconds in, 10.39% of a video's initial viewers are not likely seeing the ad.
Shawna Allen

Education killing creativity - 0 views

www.ted.com/...s_schools_kill_creativity.html

shared by Shawna Allen on 28 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Nate Bozarth on 28 Jan 11
     
    Sir Ken Robinson speaks about how our education system strips students of their creativity. It teaches us to not risk ever being wrong. "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will not come up with anything original." The hierarchy of educational importance begins with math and science and ends with the arts. The system was born of the Industrial Revolution pragmatically. We're in post-Industrial Revolution times. Academic inflation is necessitating that one gets a MA for a good job.
  • Shawna Allen on 01 Feb 11
     
    This makes me think back to the other day in class when Dr. Wesch brought up excellent questions. Who decided in 16 weeks is enough time to be educated in a certain subject? We cram so much information into such a short amount of time. Even the way we are taught to learn is sometimes misguiding. Ken Robinson makes a great point when he states the following: "All children are born artists...either we grow into it or we grow out of it or rather we get educated out of it."
Jesse Walker

African Mass Media -- Shallow Roots and Little Influence - 1 views

www.postcolonialweb.org/...kupe1.html

mass media africa little influence

shared by Jesse Walker on 15 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Colonialism brought the print and electronic media which become another form of communication hitherto unused in African Societ
  • role of the media in Africa is something that to date has not yet been clearly ascertained.
  • First, African media systems are very small urban phenomena.
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • Second, when it comes to the print media it is only those who can read and write and have the purchasing power who have access to the limited titles available
  • Third, African media systems are so undercapitalised that existence is precarious and the mortality of newspapers and magazines is very high. This is compounded by poor management and poor distribution systems. The transport networks are so underde
  • In terms of content, most programming is cheap and old programmes from Europe, North America and Australia.
  • perhaps the media in Africa is used more for its entertainment value than its ability to inform or teach people how to improve their living standards
hazenshort

How Twitter engineers outwitted Mubarak in one weekend | Technology | The Observer - 4 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...-speak-tweet-mubarak-networker

egypt twitter google

shared by hazenshort on 06 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • A really good example of this kind of technological innovation was provided last week by Google engineers, who in a few days built a system that enabled protesters in Egypt to send tweets even though the internet in their country had been shut down.
    • hazenshort
      hazenshort on 06 Feb 11
       
      It's amazing that people can help overthrow repressive governments using a cell phone!
  • The tweets appear on twitter.com/speak2tweet.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • before the web arrived and big corporations started to get a grip on it.
Hilary Dees

Amazon.com: Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society, Third Edition (9... - 3 views

www.amazon.com/...ref=sr_1_1

cultural geography maps mediated geography

shared by Hilary Dees on 14 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Hilary Dees on 14 Feb 11
     
    How are maps different across cultures? Is there a correlation on the type of map, viewpoint, material etc that has allowed for success and failure among different peoples?
presentsavage

Web2.0 In the Classroom: Blogging - 4 views

web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com/...lassroom-why-how-and-lots.html

blog portal web2.0 pedegogy teaching web2.0 blogs blogging class blog

shared by presentsavage on 12 Feb 11 - Cached
  • presentsavage on 12 Feb 11
     
    Portal for numerous blogs and articles about class-related Blogging. Contains 23 separate blogs posts on the subject "Educational Rationale for and Pedagogy of Blogging", and numerous links for subjects like "Student Safety and Responsible Blogging ", "Blogging statistics and research," Evaluating Blogs - Rubrics" and 50+ examples of Student/Teacher Blogs for Classes.
« First ‹ Previous 441 - 460 of 624 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page