Prezi presentation created by Sian Bayne looking at Uncanny Digital literacies.
The embodiment of the online learner -
Paper written by Sian Bayne looking at the embodiment of the online learner. Research for week 10 of the course.
“In that our images and profiles- and, in more visual environments, our avatars- represent a re-embodiment within the terms of the digital, we scatter our bodies accross the web where they gain a kind of independence as nodes of commentary, connection and appropriation by others into new networks and new configurations” — Sian Bayne “Academetron, automaton, phantom:uncanny digital pedagogies”
What happened to Second Life? -
Really interesting article on Second Life. Some of the comments at the end are relevant in relation to our discussions on community.
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Donna Haraway's A Manifesto for Cyborgs, a youtube presentation. -
Donna Hararway youtube video, A manifesto for cyborgs. Trying to see if I can understand the paper a little better in video format!
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According to transhumanist thinkers, a posthuman is a hypothetical future being “whose basic capacities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer unambiguously human by our current standards.”[6]
The difference between the posthuman and other hypothetical sophisticated non-humans is that a posthuman was once a human, either in its lifetime or in the lifetimes of some or all of its direct ancestors. As such, a prerequisite for a posthuman is a transhuman, the point at which the human being begins surpassing his or her own limitations, but is still recognizable as a human person or similar.[6] In this sense, the transition between human and posthuman may be viewed as a continuum rather than an all-or-nothing event.
” — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthuman_condition#Posthuman_in_Posthumanism“Cyborg-a human who has certain physiological processes aided or controlled by mechanical or electronic devices” — http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00861/glossary.htm
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“The Uncertainization of late modern societies actually strengthen our need to belong”
Do we now seek out a community (virtual) to belong to? As we increasingly live in Gesellschaft cities?
” — Slevin 2000