Timbuktu Manuscripts as Artifacts
Michael GallagherThis is a post a bit outside the norm for this blog, so apologies. I have just been processing the devastating initial reports about the burning of many of the…
Artifacts vs. products in new media: unfinished and incomplete
What will Zork as an artifact say of us? Will it interpreted by future societies as a rather obvious and clumsy attempt to insert Zork into a blog post because…
Learning artifacts created or inspired by Elearning & Digital Cultures course (2010) ahead of #edcmooc
This post was inspired by the upcoming Elearning & Digital Cultural MOOC being offered by the good people at the MSc in Elearning at the University of Edinburgh. I recommend…
Community of Practice & Multimodality (Part 3): Semiotic assemblies and salient characteristics of ‘new’ texts
Assemblies of media towards community participation: evidence from my MSc dissertation. Brooklyn Bridge blueprints and human capital. Reader: this is Part 3, the final part. I wanted to take the…
Community of Practice & Multimodality (Part 2): New texts, hypericon, and peripheral identities
(A 'new' text or me just rambling on about cultural heritage in NYC? You be the judge!) Reader: yes, it is another post on thesis stuff. The phrases Community of…
Intersections between Community of Practice and Multimodality: Writing of “New” Texts via mobile technology
You need to align yourself and your new texts (with existing practice) before you wreck yourself (to paraphrase Ice Cube). Reader: please note that this post is littered with (half-baked)…
Carving meaning into existing artifacts: Multimodality and the Tower of London
Beauchamp Tower graffiti, Tower of London There, I put multimodality right into the title so if you want to skip it, please go ahead. Needless to say, this is one…