Module Aims:
To facilitate the synthesis and display of a range of creative and intellectual skills
To provide the opportunity for students to take responsibility for a major project
To enable students to study a chosen area relevant to a career after graduation
To provide the opportunity for students to take responsibility for a major project
To enable students to study a chosen area relevant to a career after graduation
The next few pages are from the early stages of my research.
As my research started to push towards Social Media, I thought it would be great to do a social media diet as I find myself going on it everyday. It was one of the most productive weeks I have ever had. After doing the diet, I encouraged my family to take part to see what their thoughts were, the documented it.
I wrote a small essay about Social Media on how it affects business. I wrote about how you can build customer relationships via Facebook, how the privacy affects us and how companies interact with their customer with Social Media.
During this project I took the time to read a few books. I took away some valuable points from Sherry Turkle, Neil Postman and Cesar Kuriyama. I would recommend people to go and have a read of their books.
- The Internet & modern media is reconstructing our brains (Nicolas Carr)
- The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment. (Nicolas Carr)
-The technology has become a phantom limb. (Sherry Turkle)
- Computers no loner waits for humans to project meaning into them. Now, sociable robots meet our gaze, speak to us and learn to recognise us. (Sherry Turkle)
- Every technology has a prejudice like language itself. (Neil Postman)
- Every advantage of a new technology offers, there is always corresponding disadvantage. The disadvantage may exceed in importance the advantage, or the advantage may well be worth the cost. (Neil Postman)
Life logging and archiving sites started to interest me the most through my research. I took this further and started to look into Datafade & Blackbox.
SenseCam is a device containing a camera and embedded sensors worn around a users neck which automatically takes a series of still images over time as well as capturing other aspects of life events such as ambient light levels, temperature and movement.
Life-logging applications claim to support a whole range of ways in which we can look back, re-live, re-examine and search through our past experiences.
A quote from the ‘Virtual Possessions’ paper.
“For more than forty years, researchers have detailed how people develop attachments to their material possessions as they create and evolve a sense of self. Over the past several years’ people have increasingly acquired virtual possessions. These include both possessions that are loosing their material integrity. Little is known about how people perceive value and form attachments to their virtual possessions”
After reading the paper it had me interested in possessions. From this I looked into my top 6 virtual & material possessions.
Virtual possessions
1. Facebook
2. iPhone pictures
3. iPod
4. WhatsApp
5. iPhone
6. Youtube
Material possessions
1. My clipboard containing photos and concert tickets
2. Holiday photo
3. Portable speaker
4. Teddy’s
5. DVD
6. Certificate (Degree)
From my 200 pages of research, I then moved onto my idea generation.
