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Is a space
For some time now I’ve used “Is a liminal space” as my tagline and it has always intrigued me how people latch on to the word “liminal” in that little phrase. Asking me what it means and why I identify with it. Fewer folks point out that people are not spaces and that spaces, though…
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Digital Citizenship Digital Environments Digital Identity Live Streaming Media Studies Surveillance Virtually ConnectingThe Zoom Gaze
Note: On December 7th I expanded my thinking on the concept of the Zoom Gaze into a full-length article with Real Life Magazine which you can find here https://reallifemag.com/the-zoom-gaze/ I’ve been doing video conferencing pretty intently since 2016 in connection with my Virtually Connecting work. This work has been technical, social, and critical. It has…
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Evolving Digital Identity – The “Real Life” of watching and being watched
This post is around the #DigPINS Pedagome “Identity” week. I want to just sort of riff on my own about some personal experience so forgive me for not doing a map or otherwise following the prompt. I’ve long been interested in the impact of environment on identity but I recently took on a little personal…
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Digital Citizenship Digital Environments Digital Identity Digital Networks Digital Pedagogy Digital Scholarship DigPINS Open Education Rhizomatic Learning#OpenEd18 Lightning Talk: #DigPINS, We are Open … But sometimes closed
I’ve made it to Open Ed 2018 and I’m excited to present a lightning talk on Friday at 3:30 – 3:45 with Sundi Richard and Joe Murphy on our collaborations with #DigPINS. If you are at the conference please consider coming by and if you are not I’m hoping this blog post will give you…
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Digital Citizenship Digital Identity Digital Pedagogy Digital Scholarship Domain of One’s Own Open Web PrivacyDesigning for Privacy with DoOO: Reflections after DPL
The thinking for this post comes on the tail end of Digital Pedagogy Lab (DPL) where, despite not being enrolled in any of the data or privacy offerings, concerns of student data and privacy rang loud in my ears. This came from various conversations but I think it really took off after Jade Davis’ keynote…
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Platform Literacy in a Time of Mass Gaslighting – Or – That Time I Asked Cambridge Analytica for My Data
Digital Citizenship and Curiosity In the beginning of 2017 I first discovered Cambridge Analytica (CA) through a series of videos that included a Sky News report, some of their own advertising, as well as a presentation by their CEO Alexander Nix. I found myself fascinated by the notion that big data firms, focused on political advertising,…
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ELI Poster Presentation: DigPINS – A participatory faculty development experience
I’m excited to be presenting a poster at ELI2018 with Sundi Richard on DigPINS – a participatory faculty development experience. Sundi designed DigPINS around the same time that I was designing my first year seminar in digital citizenship – of course we co-founded #DigCiz and digciz.org together so there has been a lot of talk…
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#DigCiz Reflections and a #DigPed Workshop
We just wrapped up a month long #DigCiz conversation and it was really unlike any of the others. It was bigger for one thing. I was informally running Twitter stats in the background and we consistently had between 200-400 people for any given week. Not massive by any means but growing. Though it was bigger…
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What is DigCiz and Why I am Not Marina Abramovic: thoughts on theory and practice
Theory Alec Couros and Katia Hildebrandt just finished a round of facilitation in the #DigCiz conversation where they challenged us to think about moving away from a personal responsibility model of digital citizenship. In a joint blog post they spend time distinguishing digital citizenship from cybersaftey and present Jole Westheimer’s work identifying three different types of citizens…
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My Virtual Life: becoming a real buddy with a nod to the Velveteen Rabbit
‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit. ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’ What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be virtual? Over the last year I spent a lot of time expanding my virtual self. Now, I had…