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Type: educational

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Authors: Michele Knobel Colin Lankshear Ivor F. Goodson J. Marshall Mangan

Tags: technology culture classroom contexts contestation distuptive

Description: An interesting overview of the impact of technology in the classroom. An early review datingAn interesting overview of the impact of technology in the classroom. An early review dating from circa 2000-2002. Has a really interesting first chapter on cultural perspectives and classroom contexts....

2007-12-21

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Type: educational

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Author: Will Richardson

Tags: web technology blogging podcast wikis 2 classroom

Description: An immensely readable, early review of the use of new media technologies in the classroom.

2007-12-21

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Type: documentary

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Author: Leander Kahney

Tags: technology culture digital ipod

Description: A light-hearted look at iPod culture.

2007-12-21

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Type: educational

Status: neutral

Authors: Philip LeVine (Editor) Ron Scollon (Editor)

Tags: technology linguistics communication discourse multimodality

Description: The overarching theme of Discourse and Technology is cutting-edge in the field of linguistics:The overarching theme of Discourse and Technology is cutting-edge in the field of linguistics: multimodal discourse. This volume opens up a discussion among discourse analysts and others in linguistics and related fields about the two-fold impact of new communication technologies: The impact on how discourse data is collected, transcribed, and analyzed-and the impact that these technologies are having on social interaction and discourse. As inexpensive tape recorders allowed the field to move beyond text, written or printed language, to capture talk-discourse as spoken language-the information explosion (including cell phones, video recorders, Internet chat rooms, online journals, and the like) has moved those in the field to recognize that all discourse is, in various ways, "multimodal," constructed through speech and gesture, as well as through typography, layout, and the materials employed in the making of texts.
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2006-04-06

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Type: technical

Status: to read

Authors: Anthony Baldry Paul J. Thibault

Tags: technology discourse meaning multimodality

Description: What are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internetWhat are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internet help us in multimodal discourse analysis? What postproduction and authoring skills are needed to analyse a multimodal text or to develop a corpus of multimodal texts? How does integrating multimedia meaning-making resources into hypertext multiply our meaning-making potential? How does the study of language relate to multimodality and multimedia, in particular in the e-learning age? How, and to what extent, will multimodal discourse analysis re-shape linguistics? In its attempt to provide answers to the questions raised above, and many others, this book proposes concrete solutions to the problems of multimodal text analysis and transcription of printed texts, websites and film. As such, it constitutes a much needed course in multimodal text transcription and analysis. It also suggests ways in which multimodal discourse analysis can help both educators and students understand how meaning is made in the e-learning environments that now play such an important role in our lives. In both these respects, readers are encouraged to use the book in conjunction with an associated and freely accessible website which provides many illustrations and exercises that further contextualise and exemplify the insights and descriptions provided by the book. As befits a coursebook, the individual chapters of the book are carefully organised in such a way as to provide a step-by-step progression in theoretical and descriptive complexity. ...

2006-04-06

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Type: technical

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Author: Gerhard M. Buurman (Ed.)

Tags: technology culture aesthetics visualisation

Description: Interactivity is the catchword for a wide range of innovative solutions that concept designersInteractivity is the catchword for a wide range of innovative solutions that concept designers and engineers are developing in every area of technology and culture. For the authors interaction is more than a technological or aesthetic concept, it is a new means to ally humans and technology in a dynamic and reciprocal form of "living in technology". This publication gathers together scientists and contributors from diverse fields of activity, providing a fascinating, up-to-date survey of the technological and conceptual equipment of experts engaged in aesthetic disciplines and product design. The editor, Professor Gerhard M. Buurman, is Head of Interactiondesign at the University of Art, Media and Design (HGKZ) in Zurich...

2006-04-06

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Type: scientific

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Authors: Steven Best Douglas Kellner

Tags: technology culture postmodernism communication

Description: Massive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnologyMassive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnology are heralding the transformation from the modern to the postmodern age. We are confronted with altered modes of work, communication, and entertainment; new postindustrial and political networks; novel approaches to warfare; genetic engineering; and even cloning. This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the successor of Best and Kellner's two previous books, Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field - and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments developments in the arts, politics, science, and theory. In The Postmodern Adventure, Best and Kellner analyze a broad array of literary, cultural, and political phenomena from fiction, film, science, and the Internet, to globalization and the rise of a transnational image culture. They use the best of modern and postmodern perspectives to illuminate contemporary life and to strive for a just and viable future....

2006-04-06

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Type: documentary

Status: liked

Author: James Paul Gee

Tags: technology meaning literacy representation

2006-04-06

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Type: documentary

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Author: David Trend (ed.)

Tags: technology culture communication knowledge meaning

Description: Reading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debateReading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debate about the future of information technology. Definitive essays by many of the field's most widely read commentators - Virilio, Haraway, Landow, Castells, Aronowitz, Plant, Ross, Zizek, Guattari - range across issues that are central to digital life and culture: knowledge production, cyber-identity, computer art, online community, Internet commerce, and the effect of technology on work and leisure. With contributions from both inside and outside the technology field, Reading Digital Culture will be essential reading for anyone interested in - and living in the midst of - the digital revolution. ...

2006-04-06

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: John Markoff

Tags: technology culture meaning

2006-04-06