Just another Education and Digital Cultures 2017 site
This was supposed to be an image that showed how people will claim to have a superior understanding of Google’s algorithm to such a degree that they can offer “1st page placement”. Something has happened to the image which I’ll need to rectify, but the context was Gillespie’s “Evaluation of Relevance” section of the secondary reading this week.
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I included this image of a book cover because it exemplified the element of fear that people hold about algorithmic culture, the invasive, pervasive and prominent role algorithms have taken in our every day life. It also looks like a book I might yet read.
“So in many ways, algorithms remain outside our grasp, and they are designed to be. ……”
“……This is not to say that we should not aspire to illuminate their workings and impact.”
I’ve been busy at work preparing for a practical demonstration and a talk about Virtual Reality. The talk is primarily aimed at Marketing MSc students, but I’ve been able to draw some of it back to this course.
I’ll dissect this set of slides at the weekend, but here’s a video I found particularly compelling from a community perspective. Stories are absolutely essential to the fabric of any community, I argue. Online perhaps more-so.
http://mashable.com/2017/02/09/virtual-reality-storytelling-changing/#u0DoKUoLumqr
There’s more on story telling, community and VR to come, but I also have to go back and add some meta data to the most recent Pintrest stream.
I had never heard of this simple technique for long multiplication, so this meme hit home. When off-topic pieces of information are shared within existing communities, it can often lead to more than one person learning something new. “Every day is a School Day”.
The internet may span the globe geographically, but it’s a long way short of spanning all of the planet’s inhabitants. When wrapped up in your own online bubble, it’s very easy to forget that there are still billions of people who will never access the internet that day, or perhaps ever. The digitial divide is real.
Sometimes getting away from it all gives new perspective. Our internet culture is world-wide, but we still segment ourselves in to smaller boxes. Perhaps our lives as social entities are unable to comprehend the vastness of it all, so segmentation is inevitable. Unless you’re on the moon….
Toward my artefact.
Towards my artefact, clones identified only by a bar code. Also the original author’s comment regards privacy and freedom strikes a chord, generally about perceptions of technology.
The ubiquitous USB format still alive and kicking and just the right size to jack-in to upload some new learning, maybe. But clearly the addict is the subject here. Maybe we’re all enslaved to the information culture we live in.
Image acommpanying an article https://thetiein.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/dream-woman-the-cyborg-manifesto/.
An image to accompany a suggested song for the EDC playlist.
Why do we teach?
The book that started it all.
He looks human. Cyborgs in the Bladerunner universe are indistinguishable from humans when pictured holding a dove, with an ear cut off, in the rain….
