Posted in affordance, media on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
There is quite an interesting incident today. I switched cell phone with my husband today since his phone has the speaker. I need to record some phone conversation, so the solution I came up was: use a phone with a speaker coupled with a recorder. Then Angie mentioned that the phone has the inherent recording [...]
Posted in media, participation on Mar 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Burgess’s article also touched upon the same issue as Jenkins. Computer literacy nowadays is not just about technical competency, but more about critical, creative and network literacies.
… critical technological literacy focuses on a deep, socially contextualized, and informed understanding of technology.
… creative literacies: the ability to experiment with technology in order to create and manipulate [...]
Posted in media on Jan 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I ran into a quite interesting report titled “China Leads the US in Digital Self-Expression” released by IAC and JWT. The “Young Digital Mavens” study aimed to explore how attitudes toward digital technology are changing among Chinese and American youth.
Chinese youngsters regarded digital technology as essential part of their life.
As many as 80 percent [...]
Posted in media, technology on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Salomon, G. (1979). Interaction of media, cognition and learning. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass.
This book by Salomon is the dirtiest book I have ever read. Not dirty in that sense, but in the literal sense. I was really reluctant to bring it back at the library the other day. I am glad I did [...]
Posted in facebook, media on Aug 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
In the cover story on Newsweek, the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg talked about an interesting concept “social graph“. He described it as “a mathematical construct that maps the real-life connections between every human”. What Facebook is striving for is to “construct as accurate of a model as possible of the way the social graph looks [...]
