January 2010
1 post
“Sometimes the lies within us are less frightening than the loneliness we might...”
– Brock Clarke.
December 2009
15 posts
The uncanny
The Uncanny (unheimliche; literally “unhomely” in german) is a Freudian concept where something can be familiar, yet at the same time alien, resulting in a sense of it being unnervingly strange.
“we are presented with the interesting notion of the learner as a cyborg - an...”
– Robin Usher Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research 1998 pg 4
“education as a modernist institution is characterised by the ‘spaces of...”
– Robin Usher Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research 1998 pg 3
“Featherstone and Burrows (1995: 5) define cyberspace as - ‘a cluster of...”
– Robin Usher Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research 1998 pg 2
“The ruling illusion of digital reality is its antiseptic cleanliness. A virtual...”
– C Theory Multimedia: Digital Dirt accessed 8th December 2009
“Pedagogy can no longer be seen simply as the ‘authoritative’ transmission of...”
– Robin Usher - Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research pg 1
“The number of people a user actually communicates with eventually stops...”
– Social networks that matter: Twitter under the miscroscope by Bernardo A. Huberman, Daniel M. Romero, and Fang Wu 2009
“It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as...”
– Jackson Pollock
“Learner-centered approaches are reflected in practices in which the instructor...”
– Gary Brown & Nils Peterson - The LMS Mirror: School as We Know IT versus School as We Need IT and the Triumph of the Custodial Class Accessed 5 December 2009 21:35
“Each new reader in the electronic environment can her- or himself become a...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 140
“The conceptualization of the positivistic, solitary, stable owner of words and...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 140
“This brave new world of new rhetorics and literacies includes but extends beyond...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 140
“Although popular discourses and genres are no longer denigrated within academia...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 139
“The conventional view of students as passive, oblivious consumers of mass media...”
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 139
“something I’m learning from this course is that this kind of teaching is all...”
– Sian Bayne commenting on blog entry by Sarah Payne called “Further thoughts on Bayne and a place of ghosts” with reference to the nature of the MSc course Elearning and Digital Cultures
November 2009
20 posts
“The uncanny is to do with a sense of creeping strangeness, a strangeness located...”
– S Bayne Academtron, autonmaton, phantom: uncanny digital pedagogies pg 2
“Featherstone and Burrows (1995: 5) define cyberspace as - ‘a cluster of...”
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Robin Usher - Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research pg 2
“The cognisphere takes up where the cyborg left off. No longer bound in a binary...”
– Hayles, N. K (2006) Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere, Theory, Culture & Society, 23: pg 165
“I regard the posthuman, like the ‘human’, as a historically specific and...”
– Hayles, N. K (2006) Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere, Theory, Culture & Society, 23: pg 160
“There are, however, more benign forms of the posthuman that can serve as...”
– Hayles, N. K (2006) Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere, Theory, Culture & Society, 23: pg 160
“What we make and what (we think) we are co-evolve together.”
– Hayles, N. K (2006) Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere, Theory, Culture & Society, 23: pg 164
“It is important to point out that identity play is difficult to maintain, even...”
– How Material are cyberbodies? Broadband Internet and embodied subjectivity. Lieve Gies pg 318
“there is “a considerable discrepancy between the potential for harm...”
– How Material are cyberbodies? Broadband Internet and embodied subjectivity. Lieve Gies pg 315
“Work is being redefined as both literally female and feminized, whether...”
– Haraway, the Cyborg Manifesto pg 46
“explore how the perception of the risk of identity fraud online is entwined with...”
– “How material are cyberbodies? Broadband Internet and embodied subjectivity: pg 313 Lieve Gies
“Aas (2006: 143) says of biometrics: ‘Biometric identification does not...”
– “How material are cyberbodies? Broadband Internet and embodied subjectivity: Lieve Gies
“For those interested in exploring the implications of these developments, the...”
– Hayles, N.K. (2006). Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere. Theory Culture Society, 23/7-8
“What we see with digital media is not so much the death of the author, as the...”
– Hayles, N.K. (2009) Interview with Stacey Cochran, YouTube – 28 March 2009
“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature...”
– D Haraway - A Cyborg Manifestos (2007) pg 34
“Ethnography in this strategy becomes as much a process of following connections...”
– Hine - the Virtual objects of ethnography (2000)
“If human essence us freedom from the will of others, the posthuman is...”
– Hayles, N. Katherine Towards Embodied virtuality (1999) pg 4
“I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over....”
– Locutus of Borg/Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Best of Both Worlds” (1990)
“D. S. Halacy’s Cyborg: Evolution of the Superman in 1965 featured an...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg
“When people carry on public discussions long enough, with sufficient human...”
– (Rheingold, 1993)
“Words on a screen are quite capable of…creating a community from a collection of...”
– (Rheingold, 1993)
October 2009
5 posts
“Ethnography in this strategy becomes as much a process of following connections...”
– Hine, C (2000) The virtual objects of ethnography, chapter 3 of Virtual ethnography. London: Sage. pp41-66
“Words have great visual qualities and add several dimensions to pieces—meaning,...”
– Cynthia Thornton: Artist & Author Enchanted Adornments talking about the inspiration behind her work
“Instead of going to particular field sites, virtual ethnography follows field...”
– Hine - Virtual Ethnography revisited
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“ an online community is a community if participants imagine themselves as a...”
– Bell, D. (2001) -Community and cyberculture quoting Baym (1998), p. 102
2 tags
“The virtual ethnographer asks, not what is the Internet, but when, where and how...”
– Moerman paraphrased by Hine - the Virtual Objects of Ethnography. pg 62