Minority Report: A Brighter Shade of Dystopian
Michael Gallagher With all the videos we have been discussing, I had forgotten about some of the other ones I had watched in the past, some that seem to have more relevance…
Digital Education
Blade Runner and the Allure of Poison
I will be the first to admit my bias here. I have never been a fan of Blade Runner. I always knew I was supposed to like it, like reading…
Sensemaking and Interactive Scrapbooking
I was thinking a bit about multimodality as I think the Lifestream itself encourages us to do, to experiment with multiple forms of representation, of vantage points, of askew glances,…
Bell’s Narrative of Political Economy: More Human than Consuming
After reading Bell’s “Storing cyberspace 1: material and symbolic stories” and watching the three segments of the Bendito Machine series, I am beginning to see dystopian worldviews shrouded in the…
Frightened Rabbit, Multimodality, and the Complexity of Choice
First, out of scientific honesty, I should point out that I am just a fan of the band Frightened Rabbit so my approach to this video as an educational analysis…
Bendito Machine Parts 2 & 3: Consumerism and collective morality
I was intrigued b y the Bendito Machine to the point that I went back to YouTube in search of antecedents or derivatives. I stumbled across the first two episodes…
Lifestream Review for Week of 20.9.2010
My Lifestream for this introductory week is a work in progress to say the least. It is a combination of multiple channels and more that I attempted to include, but…