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The Internet entrepreneurs are, at the same time, artists and prophets and greedy, as they hide their social autism behind their technoligical prowess. By themselves, from their specific culture, they could never have created a medium based on networking and communication. But their contubution was/is indesensabble to the multi-layered cultural dynamics that induced the Internet world.
The Internet galaxy: reflections on the Internet, business, and society By Manuel Castells, p.60 -
Our experience with this project suggests that it was not the technology but the process of recording and sharing practice which was ineffective. Previous attempts to integrate this practice into teaching and learning had been blamed on cumbersome technologies not on other factors related to the learning culture; designing the process around a “simpler” technology did not fix the problem as lecturers perceived it and did not lead to the intended outcome of the intervention. However, the technology was useful to the student teachers and to staff in unexpected and unpredictable ways. In a sense, the socially constructed uses of the technologies in this case study proved effective whereas the well-intentioned drive to apply technology prescriptively to a problem was less effective.
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If I am regularly the one who formulates or sums up what we have said… that is subtler sort of asymmetry than if I am the only person allowed to speak without being invited to do so.
p. 203
FAIRCLOUGH, N. (1992) Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity.
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We are in the midst of a pitched political battle over the spoils of the transformation to a digitally networked environment and an economy increasingly centred on the production and exchange of information, knowledge and culture. Stakeholders from the older industrial information economy are using legislation, litigation, and international treaties to retain the old structure of organizing production so that they can continue to control empires they built in the old production system.
p.1272
Benkler, Yochai (2003) Freedom in the commons: towards a political economy of information, Duke Law Journal Vol. 52:6 pp.1245-1276
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Spring cleaning (in January)
So I was running this tumblr as a life stream, but all change.
This is now a scrapbook of key things I’ve pulled out of readings I’m doing as part of my work. They’re not necessarily things I agree with but they seem important. So it’s a proper ephemera type tumblr, albeit one that focusses on clever stuff that folk said. That may or may not be right. And it will probably be very sporadic.
I'm Jon.This is a cuttings book of key passages I've found while reading up on things for various research projects.
I'm a Lecturer at Birmingham City University's School of Media and a member of Interactive Cultures.
Read more in depth pondering at my personal blog
