So, this is the final entry or wrap up, and focus on the lifestream as an experiential learning activity, it has been an informative, shocking and enlightening around the traces we leave and the notion of being open and having discourse in an open space, where self-censoring felt required around …
The algorithmic play aspect was fun, but equally, I was reluctant to play around too much with the useful algorithms (the ones I like, Spotify for example). But all the same, it was exciting playing. Some observations, I wanted to spoof google into thinking I was somewhere else and see …
We began algorithmic culture block this week, although it feels like they have been with us through the course, an underlying ever-present shadow 🙂 My lifestream entry for this week is this Diigo, an article on German artist Simon Weckert, set out to subvert google maps algorithm, by wandering around …
This weeks summary focuses on my digital artefact, which is the ethnography from my exploration of the MOOC – (OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON), I chose to display my findings as an infographic using PiktoChart. It felt like the right medium for me, as had gone down the path of trying …
Looking at the notion of lurkers and lurking and who and how many there are. And pointing to the lifestream Diigo entry, Writing a Lurkers’ History of the Internet By Max Read where he posits that “ ironically that “lurking” — that fundamental online activity — is no longer possible.” …
My MOOC of choice has been a pleasant surprise for me, in terms of follow up and commitment from teaching staff on this particular MOOC. They are super responsive when it comes to replying in forums, and by their admission, there is a team that sits behind the course provided …
So after a few false starts around picking a MOOC, I finally settled on Object-oriented programming with Python, this airs offered by the Raspberry Pi foundation. It doesn’t have a ton of participants, but they are relatively active. This MOOC, had the double attraction from an ethnographic perspective that it has …
Week 3 Summary. This week has again been the posthuman/transhuman, with more of my time than expected spent on my visual artefact. With the premise being enhancement, and implants to the body. In the case of my artefact the eyes. So, not feasible at the moment, but what non-invasive enhancements …
Week 2 Summary. I guess this week I have been thinking around and exploring duality and the posthuman, a lot of my lifestream entries were around language, and the similarities I saw in our film festival clips with theological concepts and posthumanism, they both seemed to share a vocabulary, beyond …
Reflecting on week one of the course has been around place, embodiment, and context, and how much of our view on dystopia, utopia shaped by our locale, and cultural environment. In the Instagram category you can see an image showing the wires as arteries, with the city as a living …