vt2012 network cultures semester a 2011-12 module leader: sophie barr barr@uel.ac.uk

VT2012 Network Cultures

Semester A 2011-12Module Leader: Sophie Barr

barr@uel.ac.uk

What is network culture?

In groups of 2 to 5 discuss this question, write down your thoughts and report back

“Digital Immigrant”“Digital Native”

What do these terms mean? Do you consider yourself to be one of the above?

In groups of 2 to 5 discuss these questions, write down your thoughts and report back

Digital Immigrants video

World Wide Web in Plain English

Internet English

History of the internet

Future of the Internet: Web 3.0

Choose a technology/service from each pile that relate to one another.

Discuss and write down how they relate to one another. How are they different and how are they similar?

How does the technology in the second list change that of the first?

After 15 minutes be prepared to report back to the whole group.

In your groups:

“Although other ages have been networked, ours is the first modern age in which the network is the dominant organizational paradigm, supplanting centralized hierarchies”

(Varnelis, 2007)

“If appropriation was a key aspect of postmodernism, network culture almost absent-mindedly uses remix as its dominant form.”

(Varnelis, 2007)

Paul Baran’s network models (born 1926)

What is a rhizome?

“any point of a rhizome can be connected to anything other, and must be. This is very different from the tree or root, which plots a point, fixes an order.”

Deleuze & Guattari (1987:7)

Sources

Deleze, G. & Guattari, F. (1987) A Thousand Plateaus, 2004 edition, Trans Massumi, B. London, New York: Continuum. Varnelis, K. (2007) The Rise Of Network Culture available from: http://varnelis.net/the_rise_of_network_culture accessed [13/10/2010]

Next week

Social Networking and the Creation of Self Online. Reading (be prepared to discuss it in class). Get blogging! Start thinking about your video groups and video

subject.