Week Eight. Topic Four.
Article 1:
Livingstone, S and Helsper, E (2007) "Gradations in Digital Inclusion: Children, Young People and the Digital Divide". New Media and Society. Volume 9: Issue 4.
Article 2:
McMillian S and Morrison M (2006) "Coming of age, with the internet: A qualitive exploration of how the internet has become an integral part of young people's lives". New Media and Society. Volume 8: Issue 1.
Article 3:
Mastronardi M (2003) "Adolescence and Media". Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Volume 22. Issue 83.
Article 4:
Livingstone, S (2003) "Children's Use of the Internet: Reflections on the Emerging Research Agenda". New Media and Society.Volume 5:Issue 2.
Article 5:
Thurlow, C and McKay S (2003) "Profiling New Communications Technologies in Adolescence". Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Volume 22: Issue 94.
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Websites Used
Week Eight-Topic Two
Website 1: http://www.blogscholar.com/content/view/72/33
Website 2: http://www.blogher.com/are-you-drowning-technology
Website 3: http://prchances.com/2008/09/22/more-reactions-to-social-media
Website 4: http://thinkdigitalfirst.blogspot.com/2008/12/first-not-only.html
Website 1: http://www.blogscholar.com/content/view/72/33
Website 2: http://www.blogher.com/are-you-drowning-technology
Website 3: http://prchances.com/2008/09/22/more-reactions-to-social-media
Website 4: http://thinkdigitalfirst.blogspot.com/2008/12/first-not-only.html
Article Three & Four
Week Eight-Topic Six
Article 3: This article only focuses slightly on the topic we are to discuss, which is "New" Media. I disagree with the statement that TV is the still the most dominant media form, I believe music, as well as the internet are just as dominant. However, the point the writers make of major adolescant identity formation being formed by the internet, I believe that all forms of media influence young people.
Article 4: A point in this article that I found could be debated is that because the field of New Media is young, the writer believes that there is not much discussion in the field. However, I believe about "New" Media is that everytime a newer form of media happens, there is the same excitment, confusion and so on (such as when TV was invented). Therefore the same theories and views can be applied to the "New Media" we are discussing.
Article 3: This article only focuses slightly on the topic we are to discuss, which is "New" Media. I disagree with the statement that TV is the still the most dominant media form, I believe music, as well as the internet are just as dominant. However, the point the writers make of major adolescant identity formation being formed by the internet, I believe that all forms of media influence young people.
Article 4: A point in this article that I found could be debated is that because the field of New Media is young, the writer believes that there is not much discussion in the field. However, I believe about "New" Media is that everytime a newer form of media happens, there is the same excitment, confusion and so on (such as when TV was invented). Therefore the same theories and views can be applied to the "New Media" we are discussing.
Article One & Two
Week Eight-Topic Six
Article 1:There is not alot I disagree with within this article, as there is a lot of evidence to back up the points being made. However, there are some points that the writers make that I thik could do with a little more exploring. Such as the writers seem to think that "digital exclusion" is the most damaging form of social exclusion, there is no evidence presented for this; I also believe that all forms of social exclusion in children is damaging. There are also some pretty sweeping statements made, such as the internet being unlike "simple" media.
Article 2: This article is based around the essays written by 72 college students, and therefore is primarily based on opinons. Like the article before, there are plenty of sweeping statements with little evidence other than what the people say. Such as individuals being peer pressured into using the internet and that learning to use the internet (etc) is father-dominated. There is also a lot of discussion into the virtual communities and relationships formed online, and how they reflect offline relationships-there is no evidence within the article to reflect this-it is just people's views. And some of the points such as, online relationships are not as real as offline one, I disagree with.
Article 1:There is not alot I disagree with within this article, as there is a lot of evidence to back up the points being made. However, there are some points that the writers make that I thik could do with a little more exploring. Such as the writers seem to think that "digital exclusion" is the most damaging form of social exclusion, there is no evidence presented for this; I also believe that all forms of social exclusion in children is damaging. There are also some pretty sweeping statements made, such as the internet being unlike "simple" media.
Article 2: This article is based around the essays written by 72 college students, and therefore is primarily based on opinons. Like the article before, there are plenty of sweeping statements with little evidence other than what the people say. Such as individuals being peer pressured into using the internet and that learning to use the internet (etc) is father-dominated. There is also a lot of discussion into the virtual communities and relationships formed online, and how they reflect offline relationships-there is no evidence within the article to reflect this-it is just people's views. And some of the points such as, online relationships are not as real as offline one, I disagree with.
Digital Immigration
Week Eight
Website 1: The first website is fairly up-to-date, however, is not that simple to understand. It seems to jmp from point to point. However, it does tell the reader who and when created the term "digital immigration". It does reference an article (from 2006) from a well-known Britishnewspaper which helps explain what Digital Immgration is.
Website 2: This website was written in the form of a blog on a website written for and by women. It is easy to read, but not that easy to understand. The woman writing describes herself as a "Digital Immigration Officer"; she helps people make the transition to digital mediums. It practices what it preaches, by having links to websites such as facebook, to almost "complete" the transition into the digital world.
Website 3: This is also a blog, simply explaining what Digital Immigration. Someone has commented it saying that digital immigraton is an experience that is "confusing, painful" and "tramuatic" and also that she is "sadder but wiser now". This is easy to understand, and even though it was written a few years ago, I believe that it is still relevant and useful.
Website 4: This is another blog, this time it is about seniors going online and the problems they have with Digital Immigration. It is relevant and useful to what we are learning about, it is written in simple language.
Website 1: The first website is fairly up-to-date, however, is not that simple to understand. It seems to jmp from point to point. However, it does tell the reader who and when created the term "digital immigration". It does reference an article (from 2006) from a well-known Britishnewspaper which helps explain what Digital Immgration is.
Website 2: This website was written in the form of a blog on a website written for and by women. It is easy to read, but not that easy to understand. The woman writing describes herself as a "Digital Immigration Officer"; she helps people make the transition to digital mediums. It practices what it preaches, by having links to websites such as facebook, to almost "complete" the transition into the digital world.
Website 3: This is also a blog, simply explaining what Digital Immigration. Someone has commented it saying that digital immigraton is an experience that is "confusing, painful" and "tramuatic" and also that she is "sadder but wiser now". This is easy to understand, and even though it was written a few years ago, I believe that it is still relevant and useful.
Website 4: This is another blog, this time it is about seniors going online and the problems they have with Digital Immigration. It is relevant and useful to what we are learning about, it is written in simple language.
Friday, 6 March 2009
Distance Learning: Our example
Week Seven
http://www.open.ac.uk: The Open University
This is the only fully-dedicated to online learning university in the United Kingdom. They around 150,000 undergraduate and more than 30,000 postgraduate students. Nearly all of the students are part-time, 70% of the students learn alongside full-time work. A positive of Open University is that 10,000 of the students have disabilities, learning online means that these students can learn from the comfort of their own home, without travel. Unlike other unversities, no previous qualificiations are needed, however, the student must be over sixteen years old. A third of the students have lower qualifications needed than needed to enter other universities, this gives a variety of students to better themselves. The students learn through a variety of mediums such as tv/radio/internet/printed materials.
Like alot of distance learning programmes, the OU started alot earlier than originally thought. The university started in the 60's, growing extensively in the 80s. There are debates as to whethr this type of learning can be described as a "real univerity", Iain Macleod MP called it "blithering nonesense" in the 60's. Now a days, the OU qualifications are recongnised by other univerisities, and more importantly, by employeers.
http://www.open.ac.uk: The Open University
This is the only fully-dedicated to online learning university in the United Kingdom. They around 150,000 undergraduate and more than 30,000 postgraduate students. Nearly all of the students are part-time, 70% of the students learn alongside full-time work. A positive of Open University is that 10,000 of the students have disabilities, learning online means that these students can learn from the comfort of their own home, without travel. Unlike other unversities, no previous qualificiations are needed, however, the student must be over sixteen years old. A third of the students have lower qualifications needed than needed to enter other universities, this gives a variety of students to better themselves. The students learn through a variety of mediums such as tv/radio/internet/printed materials.
Like alot of distance learning programmes, the OU started alot earlier than originally thought. The university started in the 60's, growing extensively in the 80s. There are debates as to whethr this type of learning can be described as a "real univerity", Iain Macleod MP called it "blithering nonesense" in the 60's. Now a days, the OU qualifications are recongnised by other univerisities, and more importantly, by employeers.
Distance Learning in China and Africa
Week Seven
Distance learning in Africa and China is very popular, for many reasons. One reason is the size of these countries, there is no travelling involved in this kind of learnin. Also, everyone can learn without any racial or gender discrimintion. This is very important in China, as university educatioon negatively discrimintes against them. It is also non-selective; anyone can learn. The learning an be fit in around jobs, and this is important for poorer families. The individuals can learn at their own pace.
In China, the article we were asked to look at discusses their use of TVU, which is television learning. And this way of learning is getting more and more popular. Whilst E-learning in Africa encourages techno-determinsim, and boasts connecting "80 countries" and the "wider globe". This E-learning uses lots of different mediums-such as the internet, books, television and radio.
Distance learning in Africa and China is very popular, for many reasons. One reason is the size of these countries, there is no travelling involved in this kind of learnin. Also, everyone can learn without any racial or gender discrimintion. This is very important in China, as university educatioon negatively discrimintes against them. It is also non-selective; anyone can learn. The learning an be fit in around jobs, and this is important for poorer families. The individuals can learn at their own pace.
In China, the article we were asked to look at discusses their use of TVU, which is television learning. And this way of learning is getting more and more popular. Whilst E-learning in Africa encourages techno-determinsim, and boasts connecting "80 countries" and the "wider globe". This E-learning uses lots of different mediums-such as the internet, books, television and radio.
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Wenger 2
Week Six
"Joint enterprise" is the idea of a community working together to get better at something together. Originally, I thought this could only be related to forums and chatrooms such as self help groups, for people with mental health problems or abuse. Joint enterprise can apply to forums dealing with pregnancy, childbirth and so on. The people on these forums share tips, advice and experience to help themselves and others. The forum that I often reference, Mixmag.net/forum, has a forum dedicated to people learning to DJ, sharing mixing tips, ideas, song titles and everything to get better together. When people complete and post a mix online,and even get jobs DJing, the rest of the forum are supportive and proud; they work together to get better and improve at DJing. I believe this can be applied to any hobby, such as forums to do with fishing to writing etc.
"Joint enterprise" is the idea of a community working together to get better at something together. Originally, I thought this could only be related to forums and chatrooms such as self help groups, for people with mental health problems or abuse. Joint enterprise can apply to forums dealing with pregnancy, childbirth and so on. The people on these forums share tips, advice and experience to help themselves and others. The forum that I often reference, Mixmag.net/forum, has a forum dedicated to people learning to DJ, sharing mixing tips, ideas, song titles and everything to get better together. When people complete and post a mix online,and even get jobs DJing, the rest of the forum are supportive and proud; they work together to get better and improve at DJing. I believe this can be applied to any hobby, such as forums to do with fishing to writing etc.
Friday, 27 February 2009
Anaylsis of a Website
Week Six
http://www.mixmag.net/
This website is a a remediation, from the magazine version of the text into an online format, with alot more addition information.This website is highly advertised in Mixmag itself, primarily it podcast which is eve mentioned on the front cover of the magazine. There is even a full page advert in the magazine advertising how "much more" the website has to offer.
The steretypical viewer of this website, I think, is lovers of dance music and clubbing (which includes me). These people, are archetypically, not into websites that contain overactive forums and user input. I use this website to find out up and coming songs and DJs, find out about different mixs, check out photos from clubs I attended and view club listings for all around the world.
The website is fairly structured. On many websites, the hyperlinks and the non-linear nature make it easy to "get lost", but this is not the case on this website. The website is clearly and simply laid out and includes "Clu listings", "Clubbing photos", "Downloads", "Technical Advice" and so on. And with the slogan "The World's Biggest Dance Magazine", we immediately know that the audience is quite niche.
The content of this website is primarilly submitted by Nick Stevenson, who is one of the editors of the magazine. He also writes his own personal blog which is submitted online about hs recent clubbing experiences and thoughts on new songs. The editors and"Mixmag News Team" of the magazine seem to control the content, and minus the forum, there is little room for produsage. Writing the news on the main page is a privilage which is given out. They choose and control what is written about; how their magazine/website comes across and what news is considered important. The language of the news is very informative, yet light-hearted and sometimes comical. As mentioned, there is little room for produsage and dispersal, however, there is a feeling of produsage with the blogs and the nature of the news, even if the "ordinary" people can not post. I believe this is to appear more down to earth, to appeal to the steretypically, laidback clubbers. I think that if more user input, it would devalue to clearly carefully selected news that the editors post.
We trust the news that is presented to us, because it is writen by the editors, who we trust because they have successful run the magazine since 1982. We have learnt to trust these people, and as a reader, I trust the news as well, because of the sources they use, such as dj's official webpages and emails sent to them from official sources. This increases the quality of the information-and we trust it. Thus, raising the debate of what information we consider to be important and relevevant. Why do we consider information given to us by "official" sources more important than word-of-mouth? and why do we tend to distrust much of the information online, until it is given the "official" tag.
As mentioned in a previous post, the forum is for information. Most people hid their identities through different screenames, avators and so on are not used. This is because the forum is not designed to "make friends", it is designed to gain information and music. The other information is not needed. On the forum, people seek information and often there is no need for extensive converstion. To be considered a "jerk", would be quite hard. On other forums-arrogance/spam and over-posting are frowned upon by other posters. I believe that this forum is not popular enough for people of that nature to frequent. The lack of general conversation and discussion is taught by the "virtual settlement", posters know how to by the layout, previous content and topics in general.
The forum is designed to simply gain information, and minus competetions and quizzes, the rest of the website seems to be designed for this as well, as there are lots of headings and links back and forth to other websites and sources of information.
On this website, the only advertising are for the podcats and the Mixmag text service, as well as selected (by the website) DJs and clubnights (showing favourtism). This reinstates the intended audience of the websites-profit is made from the adverts as well as the many downloads avaliable.
There is an idea of community on this website. Even without much produseage. The idea that dance music-clubbing-fashion-djing at home, are so closely linked, and the website deigners obviously know this. There are many articles in the (surprisingly extensive) archieve on drugs, particually in night club surroundings and reclassification. This creates a sense of community as the writers (somewhat successfully) use the stereotype of drug usegae being connected to dance music. There is common ground and with direct, intelligent but colliqual language appears to invite anyone with these interests to read and enjoy the content of this website.
Personally, I really enoy this webiste, and I go on it every few days. The daily updates of news keeps me goin until the next months magaine, I also enjoy the many links and easy headings, as they make the information digestable and even more easy to read.
I think this is all abit mixed up (see what I did there...) but hopefully I gave the website justice.
http://www.mixmag.net/
This website is a a remediation, from the magazine version of the text into an online format, with alot more addition information.This website is highly advertised in Mixmag itself, primarily it podcast which is eve mentioned on the front cover of the magazine. There is even a full page advert in the magazine advertising how "much more" the website has to offer.
The steretypical viewer of this website, I think, is lovers of dance music and clubbing (which includes me). These people, are archetypically, not into websites that contain overactive forums and user input. I use this website to find out up and coming songs and DJs, find out about different mixs, check out photos from clubs I attended and view club listings for all around the world.
The website is fairly structured. On many websites, the hyperlinks and the non-linear nature make it easy to "get lost", but this is not the case on this website. The website is clearly and simply laid out and includes "Clu listings", "Clubbing photos", "Downloads", "Technical Advice" and so on. And with the slogan "The World's Biggest Dance Magazine", we immediately know that the audience is quite niche.
The content of this website is primarilly submitted by Nick Stevenson, who is one of the editors of the magazine. He also writes his own personal blog which is submitted online about hs recent clubbing experiences and thoughts on new songs. The editors and"Mixmag News Team" of the magazine seem to control the content, and minus the forum, there is little room for produsage. Writing the news on the main page is a privilage which is given out. They choose and control what is written about; how their magazine/website comes across and what news is considered important. The language of the news is very informative, yet light-hearted and sometimes comical. As mentioned, there is little room for produsage and dispersal, however, there is a feeling of produsage with the blogs and the nature of the news, even if the "ordinary" people can not post. I believe this is to appear more down to earth, to appeal to the steretypically, laidback clubbers. I think that if more user input, it would devalue to clearly carefully selected news that the editors post.
We trust the news that is presented to us, because it is writen by the editors, who we trust because they have successful run the magazine since 1982. We have learnt to trust these people, and as a reader, I trust the news as well, because of the sources they use, such as dj's official webpages and emails sent to them from official sources. This increases the quality of the information-and we trust it. Thus, raising the debate of what information we consider to be important and relevevant. Why do we consider information given to us by "official" sources more important than word-of-mouth? and why do we tend to distrust much of the information online, until it is given the "official" tag.
As mentioned in a previous post, the forum is for information. Most people hid their identities through different screenames, avators and so on are not used. This is because the forum is not designed to "make friends", it is designed to gain information and music. The other information is not needed. On the forum, people seek information and often there is no need for extensive converstion. To be considered a "jerk", would be quite hard. On other forums-arrogance/spam and over-posting are frowned upon by other posters. I believe that this forum is not popular enough for people of that nature to frequent. The lack of general conversation and discussion is taught by the "virtual settlement", posters know how to by the layout, previous content and topics in general.
The forum is designed to simply gain information, and minus competetions and quizzes, the rest of the website seems to be designed for this as well, as there are lots of headings and links back and forth to other websites and sources of information.
On this website, the only advertising are for the podcats and the Mixmag text service, as well as selected (by the website) DJs and clubnights (showing favourtism). This reinstates the intended audience of the websites-profit is made from the adverts as well as the many downloads avaliable.
There is an idea of community on this website. Even without much produseage. The idea that dance music-clubbing-fashion-djing at home, are so closely linked, and the website deigners obviously know this. There are many articles in the (surprisingly extensive) archieve on drugs, particually in night club surroundings and reclassification. This creates a sense of community as the writers (somewhat successfully) use the stereotype of drug usegae being connected to dance music. There is common ground and with direct, intelligent but colliqual language appears to invite anyone with these interests to read and enjoy the content of this website.
Personally, I really enoy this webiste, and I go on it every few days. The daily updates of news keeps me goin until the next months magaine, I also enjoy the many links and easy headings, as they make the information digestable and even more easy to read.
I think this is all abit mixed up (see what I did there...) but hopefully I gave the website justice.
:)
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Wenger 1
Week Six.
I belong to a variety of CofP. The one that fits into Wenger's model, the best is my job at Willow Valley Golf Club. I only worked at the club for about 4 months in the summer, but it contained all the aspects of Wenger's model of CofP. I worked generally in the golf shop-interacting with members and customers, in person or on the phone. As well as working closely with professional golfers, bar&kitchen staff, groundsmen, managers and the owners of the club themselves. This qualified as a CofP because all the workers at the club worked towards one aim-to keep the existing members of the club happy, safe and golfing as well as trying to gain new members and running competetions such as the Yorkshire PGA.
Wenger believes that these CofP, need a "domain", an identity that is different to others. As a golf club, we were a team-supporting our members in competetions and so on. The Willow Valley uniform of golf t-shirts with the logo created this identity. The sense of community is achieved via the relationships built from conversations and experiences. Daily, different things happened in the club (sometimes very scandelous!) that brought us all together. There was also a death of a member whilst I worked there, this shared experience brought both members and staff together in a community. There was a mutaul understanding between employees about the aim of the club. Also there was a understanding and shared knowledge between us and the members that there are certain rules (such as dress code, no mobile phones in the clubhouse etc) that eed to be understood an stuck too, these help build the sense of community and identity.
I belong to a variety of CofP. The one that fits into Wenger's model, the best is my job at Willow Valley Golf Club. I only worked at the club for about 4 months in the summer, but it contained all the aspects of Wenger's model of CofP. I worked generally in the golf shop-interacting with members and customers, in person or on the phone. As well as working closely with professional golfers, bar&kitchen staff, groundsmen, managers and the owners of the club themselves. This qualified as a CofP because all the workers at the club worked towards one aim-to keep the existing members of the club happy, safe and golfing as well as trying to gain new members and running competetions such as the Yorkshire PGA.
Wenger believes that these CofP, need a "domain", an identity that is different to others. As a golf club, we were a team-supporting our members in competetions and so on. The Willow Valley uniform of golf t-shirts with the logo created this identity. The sense of community is achieved via the relationships built from conversations and experiences. Daily, different things happened in the club (sometimes very scandelous!) that brought us all together. There was also a death of a member whilst I worked there, this shared experience brought both members and staff together in a community. There was a mutaul understanding between employees about the aim of the club. Also there was a understanding and shared knowledge between us and the members that there are certain rules (such as dress code, no mobile phones in the clubhouse etc) that eed to be understood an stuck too, these help build the sense of community and identity.
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