Fashioning & Flow
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PhD backroom: making is learning
I’ve been avoiding linking this site with my PhD work because I thought trying to maintain numerous blogs would be onerous. I still think this, but do feel the need to at least acknowledge the fact that I’m doing one and so below is the PhD ‘working out’ blog. It’s a link to a page … Continue reading
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Over 2012 I have been observing and capturing the activities of local schools in this year’s Cultural Campus Projects at London’s Southbank Centre, mainly in association with the BFI Education. I have posted photos and some research findings on the blog below. The 10 Capacities refer to a framework for a deeper understanding of arts … Continue reading
Teachers and students could be encouraged to engage in exchanges about popular cultural digital practices and representations, and to perhaps cultivate a relationship that could be fuelled and nurtured by “constant cultural churn” (Jenkins, 2010) rather than problematised by it. However, as the classroom door closes, the top-down disconnect is so often restored. One suggested … Continue reading
Firstly I wish to define my terms and introduce some of the theoretical arguments permeating my account. The term “fashioning and flow” is taken from Loveless’ 2007 NESTA Futurelab report update (2007:14) focusing on debates about the use of ICTs and creativity. This has an important bearing on my question in that digital media production … Continue reading
In February 2011 my (then) 14 year old daughter went on a school skiing holiday and within several hours of her return she had made a 7 minute short film of the trip and posted it on YouTube, viewable here. (The quality of the original video clip was much better but YouTube deleted it because … Continue reading
The diss-blog conundrum ...
- If it appeals to follow the dissertation's argument it's best to read the categories in order on the right.... something of an anathema in the blogging world. It's one of the issues with a text originally conceived as a linear block and its subsequent decanting into a dynamic, taggable, non-linear, amorphous container. Having said that, many of the posts stand up alone. I hope it all makes some kind of sense.
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