So here is my fourth blog for DIGC202 ... Not being much of a computer buff nor owning the ability to sit in front of a computer for hours I am finding it difficult to allocate time for blogging... but it always gets done! In addition our research group project is underway - searching for 30 articles (between the three of us) 18 being scholarly articles, again requires severe hours in front of my laptop... all I can say is - lucky it's a raining day today!
I want to bring up the idea of intangibility. Intangibility is a reoccurring theme in all the readings for this class - networking is intangible, the new economy is intangible, the intangibility of knowledge in this weeks Bradwell & Reeves reading. This concept keeps popping up. The dictionary definition of intangibile is 'Incapable of being perceived by the senses'. But I am not sure this entirely true in the case of networking. I know that actual networks are intangible otherwise we would all be in a huge tangled mess of ropes linking us to all our multiple networks but the effects of networks are definitely perceived by the senses. Being apart of multiple networks helps you in gaining power as stated before, power is again intangible but look at all the things you achieve with power. For example the government has the power to demand taxes and taxes are tangible in money! The whole concept of networks being intangible still baffles me! oh dear!
For a day I would love to live a liquid life that is a life lived under conditions of constant uncertainty... It would be so spontaneous and unpredictable ... but living everyday life I believe would be extremely draining. Deuze explains in his paper how we are are not going to get the option of choosing a liquid life or not! Even what we take for granted, a constant - family seems to be liquifying. With divorce rate increasing, aging baby boomers, empty nesters, the list could go on it seems that this idea of a liquid life that I would choose to have for only a day will be the way of life in the not too distant future.
Sooo here is my rant over with for this week! Take Care. Lydia :)
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Locked in rooms by oursleves!
Here I am again, giving a little piece of my mind! Unlike my first two blogs - its not a lovely Saturday afternoon it's a Monday morning, the hustle and bustle of tired eyed uni students pass me by! The lines to all the coffee shops are chockers as we all realise that we have another whole week ahead of us...
Here I go....The New Economy reading for DIGC202 got me thinking... It states; "This new economy has three distinguishing characteristics: It is global. It favors intangible things-ideas, information, relationships. And it is intensely interlinked." However I feel this in not such a NEW idea ... The internet as a whole has been doing this since it took over the world... OK maybe taking over the world is a little dramatic but it seems like it has... a day does not pass that I am not on the internet.. whether it is on Facebook or just using the connection to play games on my Iphone. I think this concept has been happening for a lot longer than we all realise its just no one has realised it. But now thanks to Kelly we know that we are going to be locked in rooms by ourselves without any physical contact with anyone everrrr again.. oh dear!
In the second reading for week three Barlow declares as human beings we are all susceptible to coercion. Coercion is a form of power. Power is the ultimate goal. Without physical bodies we are unable to be coerced. So with this in mind and Kellys new economy reading ... I can safely say that we honestly will end up in rooms by ourselves .. the inevitable ending to all physical communication is creeping up on us!
Over and out! Lyd
Here I go....The New Economy reading for DIGC202 got me thinking... It states; "This new economy has three distinguishing characteristics: It is global. It favors intangible things-ideas, information, relationships. And it is intensely interlinked." However I feel this in not such a NEW idea ... The internet as a whole has been doing this since it took over the world... OK maybe taking over the world is a little dramatic but it seems like it has... a day does not pass that I am not on the internet.. whether it is on Facebook or just using the connection to play games on my Iphone. I think this concept has been happening for a lot longer than we all realise its just no one has realised it. But now thanks to Kelly we know that we are going to be locked in rooms by ourselves without any physical contact with anyone everrrr again.. oh dear!
In the second reading for week three Barlow declares as human beings we are all susceptible to coercion. Coercion is a form of power. Power is the ultimate goal. Without physical bodies we are unable to be coerced. So with this in mind and Kellys new economy reading ... I can safely say that we honestly will end up in rooms by ourselves .. the inevitable ending to all physical communication is creeping up on us!
Over and out! Lyd
Sunday, 7 August 2011
So here I am providing another sneak peak to the inner workings of my brain! I am not too sure whether blogs are suppose to be as colloquial as this but I find it way easier to write what I'm actually thinking so again pleeeeease bare with me!!
It turns out I'm writing this on another lovely winters Saturday afternoon, sitting in a dress, as I am, is completely unheard of at this time of year. Whether it's global warming or not, who am I to complain?? It's amazing!
Speaking of environments, (such a subtle connecting sentence) the Stalder reading addresses how the "Media build an integrated environment based on flows of information." He looks at nodes and flows as two intangible elements that build upon the other to provide stabilization within the potentially fluid environment enabling navigation and purposeful, systematic action. To be honest I don's really understand his analogy. The complexity of his description confuses me, but then I suppose Stalder is trying to help us understand this environment, which is even more complex then being able to describe it itself - if that makes sense? I'm just glad that we live in a networking society (last weeks reading) rather than an information one!!
I suppose our generation has taken advantage of the development of computers and the internet for that matter. I think it's somewhat ironic that the most popular and used information/networking/communication (call it what you want) device in today's society is yet another American invention. I don't want to your time and my time for that matter by whinging about how America wants to Americanise the whole world but yet it does basically unintentionally. I have no doubt that the people at the RAND Corporation who originally developed this wonderful thing would have thought that the internet would be basically a nessesity in 2011. The life without the internet would have so many detrimental effects, the first to pop into my head whether its because I have a tree hugging mother or not, is trees! Imagine the amount of paper we would use for everything we look up on wikipedia (not for uni assessments (; of course) .. it would be ridiculous! This brings me back to last weeks blog and the concept of networking. I honestly cannot imagine the detrimental affects networking would have without the internet, I'm not going to make the bold statement that saying networks would not happen but rather I would like you guys to think about all the networks you are involved with on the internet alone.
Sooo here I come to and end of my second blog. I hope it's kind of interesting! Please leave a comment !! Thank you Lyd!
It turns out I'm writing this on another lovely winters Saturday afternoon, sitting in a dress, as I am, is completely unheard of at this time of year. Whether it's global warming or not, who am I to complain?? It's amazing!
Speaking of environments, (such a subtle connecting sentence) the Stalder reading addresses how the "Media build an integrated environment based on flows of information." He looks at nodes and flows as two intangible elements that build upon the other to provide stabilization within the potentially fluid environment enabling navigation and purposeful, systematic action. To be honest I don's really understand his analogy. The complexity of his description confuses me, but then I suppose Stalder is trying to help us understand this environment, which is even more complex then being able to describe it itself - if that makes sense? I'm just glad that we live in a networking society (last weeks reading) rather than an information one!!
I suppose our generation has taken advantage of the development of computers and the internet for that matter. I think it's somewhat ironic that the most popular and used information/networking/communication (call it what you want) device in today's society is yet another American invention. I don't want to your time and my time for that matter by whinging about how America wants to Americanise the whole world but yet it does basically unintentionally. I have no doubt that the people at the RAND Corporation who originally developed this wonderful thing would have thought that the internet would be basically a nessesity in 2011. The life without the internet would have so many detrimental effects, the first to pop into my head whether its because I have a tree hugging mother or not, is trees! Imagine the amount of paper we would use for everything we look up on wikipedia (not for uni assessments (; of course) .. it would be ridiculous! This brings me back to last weeks blog and the concept of networking. I honestly cannot imagine the detrimental affects networking would have without the internet, I'm not going to make the bold statement that saying networks would not happen but rather I would like you guys to think about all the networks you are involved with on the internet alone.
Sooo here I come to and end of my second blog. I hope it's kind of interesting! Please leave a comment !! Thank you Lyd!
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