Final week: Wikimarathon, Digital Divide and Postnationism
Loading ...The next week would be our last, so I want us to go on a wikimarathon and get the process we discussed in class going. The main focus in my view would be to discuss our work this semester through the themes - meaning not make this deliberately a summary of the course, repeating information which is already in the blog, but work on a manual addressed at the embed researcher. Write theme pages and then refer to the your travelogues with links from it. No need to repeat what we already have on the blog. Ideally we will have a theme which refers to several different travelogues to make its point.
Please continue the good work here: http://www.mushon.com/spr08/nmrs/wiki/ (don’t forget to log in)
Before you do anything, please log in and provide your real name (or something we can cross reference with the blog). Now you are welcomed to start editing.
More discussion can happen on the wiki discussion pages, here on our blog, or on Max’s weird chat thingie… (any chance we can embed it in the wiki’s sidebar?)
Please make sure to each make at least 20 edits this week, or in other words, make sure you edit so much that you stop counting. This wiki is what we leave behind this class and will be what you take with you from it.
Required Reading:
Frost, Catherine “Internet Galaxy Meets Postnational Constellation: Prospects for Political Solidarity After the Internet†(a pdf will be emailed to you, please do not share.)
Required viewing:
Nicolas Negroponte, â€Interview with Riz Khan” Al-Jazeera October 2007:
For Stephanie & a volunteer:
- Read the article and view the presentations
- Summarize it for us in a nicely accessible post to be published by Sunday (the 27th), ideally running some threads between them.
- Add to the themes covered to the wiki (hint: look at the title for this post)
- Be prepared to present the article and lead the discussion in class
- Post to del.icio.us some links that expand the discussion either about the text or about key themes in it.
i think the dude brought up a lot of good points countering some of the emails that criticized the project. someone must be missing the point to say something like, what good is a laptop if people dont even have electricity or food. i think the project is a great idea and the power of having access to the internet and exposure to technology is huge for someone to have. Not that food isnt important but there are plenty of organizations that do that already. I dont see anyone else distributing laptops to kids anywhere else.