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 :)
true true true . . . . a great rant for this week and i particularly like your last paragraph, i too dream of living the liquid life but who knows when that will be haha . . . i read this Deuze reading and i dont like the fact he said that, i wish we could have the option after all its the life most of us want to lead am i right ?
ReplyDeleteI agree, i also think that the media is so wrapped up in this new “Glocal environment” where there are endless possibilities, but in essence, there is always a fear of the unknown. This new liquid life is full of variables and unknowns, and i think fledgeling professionals, now more than ever, have to go out with their big boy/girl pants on. Our jobs are begining to rely on how cutting edge we are. If you fall behind technologically, your work becomes irrelevant, and doesn’t perform its basic function.
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