tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343773643758367735.post3308189193382215809..comments2023-10-29T11:15:37.625-04:00Comments on sleeping alone and starting out early: some thoughts on what's 'new' about 'new media'Jenna McWilliamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767988531102621970noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343773643758367735.post-20865964152701041412009-09-24T16:32:24.545-04:002009-09-24T16:32:24.545-04:00Knobel and Lankshear ARE cool. I quoted them a hun...Knobel and Lankshear ARE cool. I quoted them a hundred times in a paper I wrote last semester.<br /><br />So I wonder what the "role" of the classroom should be in these new media practices. Should the focus be on the technical stuff? (Which would be a familiar territory for a traditional classroom set up.) The ethos? (A bit more challenging.) Both?Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12620800340366649931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343773643758367735.post-45600028061602319862009-09-22T18:53:58.602-04:002009-09-22T18:53:58.602-04:00Eduardo,
I can always count on you to offer up som...Eduardo,<br />I can always count on you to offer up something smart that cuts right to the heart of the matter. So thank you for that.<br /><br />I think Knobel and Lankshear would agree with you, which is why they use the term "stuff" instead of "skills" or "tools" or what have you. For them, the "technical stuff" is a cluster of new types of practices, skills, and activities that have emerged around (and as a result of) new media. They write: <br /><br />"(New technologies like machinima, cheap remix software, and so on) represent a quantum shift beyond typographic means of text production as well as beyond analogue forms of sound and image production. They can be employed to do in new ways “the same kinds of things we have previously known.” Equally, however, they can be integrated into literacy practices (and other kinds of social practices) that in some significant sense represent new phenomena. The extent to which they are integrated into literacy practices that can be seen as being “new” in a significant sense will reflect the extent to which these literacy practices involve different kinds of values, emphases, priorities, perspectives, orientations and sensibilities from those that typify conventional literacy practices that became established during the era of print and analogue forms of representation and, in some cases, even earlier."<br /><br />Aren't these guys cool?Jenna McWilliamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07767988531102621970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343773643758367735.post-29980664828984406872009-09-22T18:19:41.059-04:002009-09-22T18:19:41.059-04:00Isn't it somewhat misleading to separate techn...Isn't it somewhat misleading to separate technical stuff from ethos stuff? I understand the point, but just as Lankshear and Knobel point out, it really isn't too helpful to learn the technical stuff since it passes by so fast. It is hardly about mastering any specific tool whatsoever (i.e. blog publishing or tweeting) as much as it is about learning how to choose the right tool for the job and to be able to adapt to a new tool if need be.<br /><br />Of course, under this description, ethos stuff takes precedence over technical stuff. And I'm thinking very much about the hacker ethic, about hacking as a cultural institution that applies not only to code and machines but to cultural objects and discourses as well. The new in new media is what's teaching us that we're allowed, entitled and expected to hack stuff and to come up with solutions on our own (not in isolation, but in our own as part of large knowledge communities). <br /><br />But knowing specific technical stuff seems to come up somewhat later in the process, almost transparently if the ethos stuff is wired correctly.Eduardohttp://castorexmachina.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com