Posted in culture, epistemology, perturbation, popular culture, web2.0 on Jan 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
or, How A Meme With A Reference To A Jew For Jesus Hip Hop Artist Reminded Me Of Dangerous Ideas
I don’t really remember how I got there, but I ended up at memepool, the brainchild of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter and Jeff Smith. Posted on January 5th, 2006, was an entry which read:
The popularity [...]
Posted in community of practice, epistemology, guilt assuagement department, perturbation on Dec 29th, 2005 1 Comment »
There was a disconcerting (at least for me) response to Stephen Downes’ summary of my post on Wikipedia. While someone else might let it slide, I think I’d like to address it because as I turned it over and over in my head (is it because I’m from, dare I say it, Massachusetts?), I [...]
Posted in community of practice, epistemology, perturbation, technology, tools on Dec 28th, 2005 Comments Off
Here are some worthwhile and interesting responses to and critiques of my last post, The Emergence of Meaning: Wikipedia As Object-Centered Sociality:
Artichoke posted a response positing, “‘What does it do?’ takes precedence… over what it might mean.”
Stephan Downes writes, “…I read the value of Wikipedia differently…. Wikipedia’s article selection also varies – while editors [...]
Posted in community of practice, critical pedagogy, culture, epistemology, learning ecology, pedagogy, perturbation on Dec 12th, 2005 Comments Off
From the novel I am currently reading, Angry Black White Boy; Or, The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay:
How much respect can you have for something you refuse to criticize?
Often in the blogosphere it seems that new ideas and practices are touted, celebrated, embraced, and sometimes even followed with a very short — or even non-existent — [...]
Posted in community of practice, learning ecology, perturbation on Dec 8th, 2005 Comments Off
Members of a community usually have something in common. Thanks to Francine of Knowledging across life’s curriculum for pointing me (and others) in the direction of objected-centered sociality, based on the work of anthropologist/sociologist Karin D. Knorr Cetina. Jyri Engeström writes,
The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of [...]
