Spazio per gli appunti del blog FG on next-media & society.
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Personally, I like the peripheral awareness that’s baked into status updates. Sure, some of what you say is brilliant, but mostly I like the tempo of the connection, the reminder of personality and quirks, the feeling of being part of humanity even when I’m sitting in my living room.

danah

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— ML Airl-L
Web Squared: When Web 2.0 Meets Internet of Things
“The world is full of bad leaders, from dictators to gaffe-prone buffoons, but some are surely worse than others. Below is a selection of 10 leaders who are often criticized in the international news media or by human rights organizations. We’ll leave the ranking up to you.”
— Top 10 Worst World Leaders (Slideshow, Poll)
“Transparency is the new objectivity”
— Joho the Blog » Transparency is the new objectivity
“Of course, I’m talking about audiences where the attendees WANT to be listening to me. Classrooms are different. One of the deeply depressing realities of teaching at university is that many of the students are simply not interested in being there. I find this frustrating no matter what, laptops or not. My goal then is to drag their attention kicking and screaming to me by playing games with their attention, visually or otherwise. I don’t expect them to pay attention to me by default; I want to earn their attention… or at least play games with it.”
— apophenia: I want my cyborg life
“Grandma and Grandpa showed up to have a conversation, but Billy and Sally were gone.”
— Facebook’s Own Estimates Show Declining Student Numbers; Now More Grandparents Than High School Users
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mi sembra che abbiate creato un bell’ambiente lì ad urbino. sono capitata a cena anche con alcuni dei vostri studenti e mi sono sembrati davvero appassionati, curiosi e aperti… che differenza con l’università che ho fatto io!

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— da un messaggio personale ricevuto via Facebook dopo Modernity 2.0
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A voi che correggete mi rivolgo: non leggete i temi pensandoli come commenti agli stimoli dati, come se dovessero parafrasare il pensiero altrui. Lo dico perché uno degli stimoli è il mio (preso da qui e che potete leggere qui) e so che è il frutto di una riflessione personale ma anche collettiva che si fa nella Rete e nelle accademie, tra pensieri e ricerche…. su di loro, questi nativi, che sono il germe del mutamento.

Leggeteli allora con i loro occhi, leggeteli come “conversazioni dal basso” e misurate le loro idee e competenze, ma senza pregiudizi.

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— Quando i social network diventano maturi « I media-mondo. La mutazione che vedo attorno a me.
“a connected world, a world in which messages no longer need to be sent from one place to another, but could become a conversation in the cloud. Effectively, a message (a wave) is a shared communications space with elements drawn from email, instant messaging, social networking, and even wikis”
— Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today? - O’Reilly Radar
“Teachers do not have to be a student’s friend to be helpful, but being a Friend (on social network sites) is not automatically problematic or equivalent to trying to be a kids’ friend. When it comes to social network sites, teachers should not invade a student’s space. But if a student invites a teacher to be present, they should enter in as a teacher, as a mentor, as a guide. This isn’t a place to chat up students, but if a student asks a question of a teacher, it’s a great place to answer the student. The key to student-teacher interactions in networked publics is for the teacher to understand the Web2.0 environment and to enter into student space as the mentor (and only when invited to do so). (Translation: teachers should NEVER ask a student to be their Friend on Facebook/MySpace but should accept Friend requests and proceed to interact in the same way as would be appropriate if the student approached the teacher after school.) Of course, if a teacher wants to keep their social network site profile separate from their students, they should feel free to deny student requests. But if they feel as though they can help students in that space, they should be welcome to do so.”
— f | apophenia (p. 1)