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Cyborg life through Aimee Mullins’ eyes
Aimee Mullins was the guest editor for Gizmodo’s current theme This Cyborg Life. The weekly theme explored many areas, but stuck mainly with the focus on medical / physical
Week 7 Summary and Pondering Haraway
This week was taken up with recovering from my ethnographic experience and viewing those of others. Thus my lifestream got a bit neglected. Pity the hard work of ploughing through Haraway doesn’t show up on it. I have to admit reading this text, ironically, made me regret for the first time not having face to face tutorials. I could really do with help, the kind of intense help you get with a face to face discussion. While I understand the overall message there is so much I just don’t get. It is like a treasure chest of ideas that are meaningless to me. So many of her statements left me crying “Why? What do you mean by that?”
Anyway, I will
My digital ethnography #6: Taking off the mask
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Tracy's digital ethnography
When I asked the Forest of the Moon players why they did it, they gave the following replies (Screen name / Character name[s]):
Being able to be a part of a fun world/idea/plot — more directly than just reading a book — and being able to do something with my tendancy to keep making characters like mad. (Oreta
My digital ethnography #5: Speaking the lingo
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Tracy's digital ethnography
Methodological preambles are far from innocent in the construction of ethnographic authority. The ethnography
described in this book is no different. Chapter 4 is there not just to tell you what I did, but to convince you that I did something that authorizes me to speak. Devices such as
My digital etnography #6: Speaking the lingo
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Tracy's digital ethnograpy
Methodological preambles are far from innocent in the construction of ethnographic authority. The ethnography
described in this book is no different. Chapter 4 is there not just to tell you what I did, but to convince you that I did something that authorizes me to speak. Devices such as the
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