Friday 3 March 2017
Nice to meet you
The Digital Stranger (task 1b and 1d continued).
I have just read the article by Peter Bryant "The Digital Stranger, Participation, Social Networking and Creativity".peterbryant.org
He asks how many of us have met on our course and
"Does this level of knowledge about them impact our interaction?"
which is a question I blogged about in Fast Track Degrees is also relevant to task 1d "The importance of the images and audio-visual in today social media."
The blog with photographs help us to think about the person who is sending them. Skype helps us to put a face to a name. Show reels show us what they can do.
He quotes -
"Social networks are effective at increasing participation by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires".
And concludes with
"Social networks participation has provided the environment and the community to begin to interact."
believing they have a more positive effect than negative.
I hope that as many people as possible can make the campus sessions. It really would be nice to meet you.
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Hi Amanda.
ReplyDeleteI do agree having an audio visual linked to a social media profile really does help with interaction. In our case of the 'work based learning course' and where interaction is important for our learning it helps to bridge that gap and make it easier/not as daunting to comment on someone blog who we really don't know. The more I am commenting on other blogs the easier I am finding it.
I am unable to attend the first campus session but will be attending the second one. Hopefully I will get to meet you then.
Lauren
Hi Lauren
DeleteThanks for your comments. We seem to have similar thoughts on interaction and the benefits of blogging. Hope to meet you when you can attend.