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#mscedc Skype session tomorrow night at 8.30pm? Whose in?
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How can we make general obersvations about MOOCs if there are so many different ones, topics, participants, providers? Community? #mscedc
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UK robotics research gets £17.3m pledge #cybercultures #mscedc
UK robotics research gets £17.3m pledge
This article highlights the economic implications for the robotics and AI industries within the United Kingdom after a significant allocation of funding.
However, it makes no mention of the impact this this would have on society (job losses etc) and other economies (manufacturing etc).
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My MOOC spans many countries. I’m wondering if language barriers influence the types of community participation as per Kozinets #mscedc
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#mscedc I wonder if digital community cultures will be discussed here. Anyone fancy trying it? https://t.co/1hat89qg2I
#mscedc I wonder if digital community cultures will be discussed here. Anyone fancy trying it? https://t.co/1hat89qg2I
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Google coding champion whose Cameroon hometown is cut off from the internet #mscedc https://t.co/1WSxVcZ9pX
I stumbled across this article on the BBC news app this afternoon and thought of it as a great example of the “Digital Divide” that Lister et al (2009) describes. Most notably when he says:
“More importantly, the central claim that we all live in an ‘information age’ is also open to question on the basis of the actual spread of technologies and access to them and the nature of the content of new media”
and
“the dissemination of communication technologies has still not reached the level of penetration that would suppose the globe is encompassed in a complete web of interconnectedness”
These two quotes come from a chapter where Lister is explaining technology’s influence over global economies where he suggests that wealthy countries are reaping the benefits of digitisation whilst the poor are still struggling.
It was also interesting to compare the example he gives of the Chinese government blocking access to the internet to control democracy, and the case in the BBC story where the government of Cameroon imposed a block as an act of punishment. Perhaps they consider the Internet as a luxury rather than an embedded way of life.
References
Lister, M., Dovey, J., Giddings, S., Kelly, K. (2009). Networks, users and economics. In New media: a critical introduction. M. Lister (Eds.) (London, Routledge): pp. 163-236.
Just joined my first MOOC (in the name of science) focussing on the Internet of Things #mscedc
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RT @elernenmuzik: Out now! Cyberculture Club – a playlist in response to cybercultures literature by #mscedc students: https://t.co/jcnmqkZ593 #mscde
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