A bit of a plug …
Anya did a great job editing the latest edition of elearning. I am looking forward to reading Guy’s thing on online identity and Kevin Leander’s and Amy Frank’s article which looks at identities and images online. I could really do with a day to read all this stuff, just looks so front line.
(Guy has a good bit on ‘identity threats’: and mentions
five themes of < ...>scare stories:
• Your virtual property is never secure; it can be stolen or maliciously corrupted by viruses.
• Your personal details are easy to locate, so easy that Internet criminals can steal and use your
identity (your money).
• You are constantly under surveillance: where you go, what you do and what you say is always
tracked.
• Your personal safety is at risk; children and young people, in particular, are at risk from sexual
predators.
• You shouldn’t trust who you meet; people aren’t who (or even where) they say they are.
He argues that online activitis provide new challenges asnd possibilities, including exciting ways of offering self narrative and presentation. and It is a very good article as you may expect.)
Anya/ Angela’s own piece on online and offline worlds merging together also looks great; and of course this fits so well with all her current work on Second Life about which she has been madly blogging for a while. (Dana wrote earlier about the ‘wrinkling binaries’ a phrase I still really like.
And yes I am so pleased that my Flickr article is now out … one I wrote for UKLA last year and altered a just a little for the journal. I cannot bear to read it again of course and have already spotted a horrendous sentence where I use the word ’space’ four times. Oh well. But I am pleased this article represents what I think has been a turning point in my research, where I feel i have really started to realise what I want to look at and why. And of course because Flickr has been such a passin for me.
finally, this is for DrKate .. a ‘found object’ in Williamsburg, New York.
Looks to me that there is a story here.
I’m definately hoping to find some time to read some of those articles. It’s all starting to wind up and increase pace forme… despite my summer break starting in three weeks, my post grad also begins in three weeks :-/
Comment by Chris Best — July 2, 2006 @ 4:41 pm
Like Chris I am counting down the days to the end of term and wondering how I am going to fit in everything which needs doing. Plus having a German family to stay fo the last week of term! Then there’s the draft for the assignment………but I hope to read some of these articles. I am doing my assignment on using popular culture in the classroom - is it going to be the right thing using the World Cup now that Engalnd are out???? Watch my blogg for even more questions and even some answers - if I get round to it.
Comment by Hilda — July 2, 2006 @ 8:36 pm
the journal looks great- will look forward to reading it and your bit especially. And yet another amazing pic!
Comment by Mary Plain — July 3, 2006 @ 6:58 am
marvellous. A text as trace. What is it?
Comment by kate — July 3, 2006 @ 8:17 am
and now we all really want to read about lamination.. off to follow that link now and at least print the article which as we agreed is very nearly the same as reading it..
Comment by Mary Plain — July 10, 2006 @ 7:55 pm
Printing the article is exactly the same as reading it. I should know, I have so many articles printed off.
Comment by DrJoolz — July 11, 2006 @ 7:22 am