Distractions

October 14, 2009 – 1:35 pm

I started out to write on the blog full of good intentions to write some pithy commentary on the digital divide, now known as digital inclusion, after reading about one current project in the UK.  It is a subject that kind of still interests me, following my ‘universal service obligation’ MPhil thesis and how to include ‘all’ into whatever communications technologies are of the day (I wrote about telephony, now we are more concerned with the internet).

However, I then read the two previous blogs and my mind started to wander….at the same time, I saw I got some ‘feedback’ on my status line on Facebook…and then some feedback on the draft 3rd semester exam project…and then feedback on a proposal to drink some beer one day….and then….and I thought how much of our time is actually spent on giving and receiving feedback, not just about our Twitters but also about things on a constant basis.  Count how many times you give and receive feedback, oral, electronically and physically in a day.  Maybe not…you might not get any work done to get feedback on.

By Barbara Lofgren |
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A Lesson From Pop Row…

October 12, 2009 – 10:49 am

So, That girl, Miley Cyrrus has given up on Twitter.
I know that twitter is not that big in Denmark (as one can expect), but the situation can easily be translated to Facebook…
Here are the lyrics from her post on Youtube:

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“Yeah, the rumors are true, I deleted my Twitter,
Can you believe it?
I had to say goodbye
and this little rap is to tell my fans why.
No it wasn’t because my friend told me to.
Ya’ll know very well what you say I don’t do.
And the reasons are simple,
I started tweeting about pimples.
I stopped living for moments and started living for people.”
I want my private life private,
I’m living for me.”
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Maybe we all should think about this… Do we want all that feedback? Do we want everyone to know our whereabouts?
I guess she got tired of being one of the icons of the Feedback Generation!

By Lucas Wxyz |
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Is this the feedback generation?

October 11, 2009 – 11:20 am

With my mind filled with hyper complexity and ‘functionally differentiated subsystems’, I was overwhelmed with nostalgia this morning. I remembered my first mobile phone…The phone is not interesting, but the way I started using it at that time is. I believe it did change something, when I learned how to write text messages.

I met this guy at a party, got his phone number and a couple of days later we started writing together. Stupid, meaningless stuff, like:

  • So, what kind of music do you like?
  • I like Jean Michell Jarre
  • Oh WOW that is amazing, so do I!!

Not exactly profound wisdom, and yet there was something appealing about these messages, the secret meaning: “We feel the same way!” A couple of weeks later I realized, he was a complete nutcase, and I had to change my phone number, but at that particular SMS-moment, I believe I got addicted to feedback. I believe I still am.

It isn’t just the social networking and the sharing of information. It isn’t just entertainment or the striving for purpose and confirmation, when anxiety takes over. I actually believe, I get high from feedback. And I spot it in the language as well.

Perhaps it is simply because we are introduced to a large variety of communicative possibilities about the same time as we feel the most dependent on other peoples opinions? When I was about 13, I got this very annoying habit (as many, many others) of closing each and every statement with a “right?” or a “don’t you think?”.

The only difference between then and now is that we don’t ask for others opinions anymore – we take them for granted. We know, that someone somewhere will give us the needed feedback. Oh, and also the fact that it is much harder to grow out of it. I would assume that the generation before mine cares less about other peoples feedback on facebook, simply because they had the opportunity of not getting feedback for every little statement.

We all like it, but I guess there is a distinct difference between ‘liking’ feedback and being addicted to it.

My names is Malene, and I’m a feedbackoholic!

By Malene Jessen |
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Støtte til udvikling af e-læring til mobiltelefoner

October 7, 2009 – 1:10 pm

Med mobiltelefonens store udbredelse er der mulighed for at nå ud til store borgergrupper med e-læring om aktuelle og relevante emner. Information og læring kan således være “lige ved hånden”, når man har tid, interesse og behov, og derved til gavn for mange borgere.

For at rette fokus på mobiltelefonens potentiale for læring støtter Videnskabsministeriet, IT- og Telestyrelsen, e-læring til mobiltelefoner med en pulje på 2,3 mio. kr.

Yderligere materiale om støttepuljen og ansøgningsskema findes her.

By Steen Carlsen |
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Payola Prevention

October 6, 2009 – 2:34 pm

Some of you in 4th semester may remember a discussion we had about getting paid to blog, the blogs being used to promote certain products and/or services rather than just being an on-line diary.  It seems that now the US government intend to crack down on these practices.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/06/fcc-blogging-payola

By Barbara Lofgren |
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Twittering justice

October 2, 2009 – 1:34 pm

I found this little gem of a story  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/01/bogus-blogger-twittered-court-order

We’ve heard the tales of people getting the sack by text message, of girlfriends being dumped by fax (wasn’t that Phil Collins?) and other such things but now it seems a court injunction can be served by Twitter.

By Barbara Lofgren |
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Can bad games be more fun/interesting than good games?

September 28, 2009 – 5:48 pm

More ludological laughs from Jesper Juul: Are you one of those people that gets a kick from watching truly awful movies? Do you think it can be more fun to spend your spare time with (say) Ed Wood’s notorious ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’ than with seminal German expressionist classic ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’? Well, the same trend has also emerged (inevitably) amongst computer gamers. Jesper suggests that the lousy design decisions of rip-off games like ‘China Miner’ can stimulate more discussion, interest and plain fun than the classic but tedious originals (in this case ‘Manic Miner’) that inspired them.

By Brennan Young |
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The debate goes on

September 22, 2009 – 12:54 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/21/musicindustry-internetipos

..and I hear that the Swedish Pirate Party is going to soon have a British counterpart…

By Barbara Lofgren |
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Social-/web-/tech-nørd

September 18, 2009 – 12:33 pm

Benjamin – en tidligere mmd-studerende – havde denne Facebook status i går:

”…abonnerer på 188 feeds, har læst 5.906 posts henover de sidste 30 dage, og har lige nu 278 liggende ulæst i readeren..”

Social-/web-/tech-nørd er Benjamins egen betegnelse for hans Facebook aktiviteter! Nogen højere, anyone?!

By Gitte Gronbek |
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Dum med Twitter eller klog med Facebook?

September 14, 2009 – 10:10 am

En anerkendt britisk psykolog fraråder brug af Twitter, som beskyldes for at forringe evnen til at huske. Facebook derimod ”forbedrer sandsynligvis arbejdshukommelsen, fordi brugeren er en del af et socialt netværk”. Læs mere på  http://vip.tv2.dk/article.php/id-25024072.html?nidk

By Gitte Gronbek |
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