There aren’t really a lot around in general. However if I had to think I one, it would be a friend from back home who has little knowledge of using today’s technology for communication. Of which who is a year younger than myself.
Having little access to the internet, contacting him with limited to only the phone. So the whole idea of social networking and instant messaging seemed to be a complete mystery to him.
Having only just finished college, most of his educational life was done the traditional way, e.g. text books and pen and paper. So the who idea of submitting work on the web or completing assessments on the computer didn’t always seem necessary.
I would only class my friend as a digital immigrant as it is very hard to think anyone who isn’t under 30 nowadays. I would have liked to say my mother as she doesn’t know the difference between e-mail and text, but she is middle aged.
Monday, 23 March 2009
Week 9 - Threatens the notion of Digital Culture
If I had to think of an individual who threatens this notion in digital culture, I’d have to say it would be a relative of mine back home who is in his early 30’s. Obviously being of this age, we would class him as a digital immigrant which is what I thought for many years as I have never seen him with a mobile or at a computer. Yet when he comes round to the house, he can use my computer and music library like he has been for years. This is the same the other week when I showed him my new phone and managed to have a look through my videos and music without me telling him how to do so. An impressive achievement seeing as myself (over 10 years younger) took a couple of days to learn the same things!
Although I’d like to refer this back to something I found last week by Rochelle Mazar, in that she says we are never to old to learn something, ‘Being a “digital native” is not about your early experiences’.
Although I’d like to refer this back to something I found last week by Rochelle Mazar, in that she says we are never to old to learn something, ‘Being a “digital native” is not about your early experiences’.
Week 9 - One fictional neo-luddite coming up!
What I think I’ll do is try to imagine what would happen to a neo-luddite in life today, as my creative side is pretty crap art the minute.
Right from the word go a neo-luddite would struggle with both educational and social sides of life at a university. I’ll tend to use this university as the example.
They would even struggle just to gain access to their timetable as of course it is accessed online. Although hopefully the classes would go a little better as they wouldn’t chose a class that involves computer work, however it can’t bound to last long in this modern age.
As for the students social life (as long as they like pubs/clubs and alcohol), they will also see an affect in the way they communicate with friends. With everyone now social networking sites, keeping in contact would be very limited as of course mobiles will be out of the question for social life.
So this both education and friendships under jeopardy, the university life for a neo-luddite would be very tough and limited indeed.
Right from the word go a neo-luddite would struggle with both educational and social sides of life at a university. I’ll tend to use this university as the example.
They would even struggle just to gain access to their timetable as of course it is accessed online. Although hopefully the classes would go a little better as they wouldn’t chose a class that involves computer work, however it can’t bound to last long in this modern age.
As for the students social life (as long as they like pubs/clubs and alcohol), they will also see an affect in the way they communicate with friends. With everyone now social networking sites, keeping in contact would be very limited as of course mobiles will be out of the question for social life.
So this both education and friendships under jeopardy, the university life for a neo-luddite would be very tough and limited indeed.
Week 9 - The technophile if the future will be very cool I bet!
Obviously with technological advances increasing each year with us to have the ability to do more, the ones of 2020 are hard to think of at this point in time.
However I can’t see that the world will be one big city with flying car clogging the skies. The universities will still have the usual features such as lectures and seminars of which will be carried out in person. However I can imagine that the majority of work, such as assignments, in all courses will be completed digitally, such as through typed out or drawn out on some kind of super advanced software compared to the ones of today.
That would be my interpretation anyway, is too hard to predict the future!
However I can’t see that the world will be one big city with flying car clogging the skies. The universities will still have the usual features such as lectures and seminars of which will be carried out in person. However I can imagine that the majority of work, such as assignments, in all courses will be completed digitally, such as through typed out or drawn out on some kind of super advanced software compared to the ones of today.
That would be my interpretation anyway, is too hard to predict the future!
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Week 8 pt.1 (apologises for the lateness of this work)
‘Digital Immigrants’ are those who were already socialized in pre digital ways when digital technology arrived on the scene.
This term has seemed to have a big impact on the world of the media today as we live in this digital age.
We see how the older generation are learning to cope with this change I everyday life while the younger ones who have grew up with it can expand on it and use this new digital technology available in different ways. These younger individuals who are familiar with these technological advances are known as ‘digital natives’.
An example of this digital immigration in the UK recently would be the digital switch over in the world of television. We are seeing how some are having to adapt to the new ways as the digital world advances around our lives.
This new sense of adapting to the new ways can be seen as a process of learning a new language in the ‘digital immigration accent’. This includes turning to the internet for information secondly rather than first.
Prensky, M. (2001) Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf
This term has seemed to have a big impact on the world of the media today as we live in this digital age.
We see how the older generation are learning to cope with this change I everyday life while the younger ones who have grew up with it can expand on it and use this new digital technology available in different ways. These younger individuals who are familiar with these technological advances are known as ‘digital natives’.
An example of this digital immigration in the UK recently would be the digital switch over in the world of television. We are seeing how some are having to adapt to the new ways as the digital world advances around our lives.
This new sense of adapting to the new ways can be seen as a process of learning a new language in the ‘digital immigration accent’. This includes turning to the internet for information secondly rather than first.
Prensky, M. (2001) Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf
Week 8 pt.2
In this article I found on The Times website, it looks at the comparison of ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrants’. Using a daughter and a mother who are both living in this digital age, it talks of how the native (the daughter) is coping with all the new technologies we have turned to fine, whilst the mother (or the immigrant), is finding this adaption to the world a lot more difficult.
As one sentence states, ‘The digital native’s brain is physically different as a result of the digital input it has received growing up’.
This article basically looks at the major difference these two generations have against each other, even though there is only a 20 year different between them. Hence, showing the advances we have come through in the past decade or so.
The article tends to focus on the mother as she questions and discusses how today’s children who are growing up with this technology are coping and if it has had an effect on them. An example of this change from analogue to digital would be that kids would write their thoughts into a personal diary, while now this has also has changed to digital in the form of blogging and social network sites where we can talk about ourselves for all to see.
I could personal reason with the mother in this example as there has been a big change in the way people are brought up in the past decade as everything now can be done by the touch of a few keys, however these digital immigrants need to understand that the world is changing and should start to involve themselves with it, as eventually it will start to affect their lives too soon.
Woods. R (2006) The next step in brain evolution: Technology is dividing us into digital natives and digital immigrants - and changing the way we think
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article683193.ece
As one sentence states, ‘The digital native’s brain is physically different as a result of the digital input it has received growing up’.
This article basically looks at the major difference these two generations have against each other, even though there is only a 20 year different between them. Hence, showing the advances we have come through in the past decade or so.
The article tends to focus on the mother as she questions and discusses how today’s children who are growing up with this technology are coping and if it has had an effect on them. An example of this change from analogue to digital would be that kids would write their thoughts into a personal diary, while now this has also has changed to digital in the form of blogging and social network sites where we can talk about ourselves for all to see.
I could personal reason with the mother in this example as there has been a big change in the way people are brought up in the past decade as everything now can be done by the touch of a few keys, however these digital immigrants need to understand that the world is changing and should start to involve themselves with it, as eventually it will start to affect their lives too soon.
Woods. R (2006) The next step in brain evolution: Technology is dividing us into digital natives and digital immigrants - and changing the way we think
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article683193.ece
Week 8 pt. 3
In this article by Siva Vaidhyanathan, he again looks at this generation divide in digital users. However the way he looks at this contempory issue are the ways in which this can be both an advantage and disadvantage to today’s youth.
One of the positives we draws from how kids today are being brought up with digital advances is that with them having a higher knowledge and understanding of this new technology, it gives them a sense of power over the adults who are left ‘fumbling and hopelessly out of touch, and youth, seen as masterful’.
Whilst on the other hand, the negative aspect brought up again is that with this new technology, it affects the traditional child’s up bring. For example instead of them going out to the park with their friends, they are now preferring to stay in and surf the web or play on computer games etc.
So the main item that is brought to our attention here by Siva is how there is a whole new culture divide between two generation which are next to each as the result in digital technology advances and the affects on today’s children’s up bringing.
Vaidhyanathan, S. (2007) The Googleization Of Everything
http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/2007/12/the_problem_with_digital_nativ.php
One of the positives we draws from how kids today are being brought up with digital advances is that with them having a higher knowledge and understanding of this new technology, it gives them a sense of power over the adults who are left ‘fumbling and hopelessly out of touch, and youth, seen as masterful’.
Whilst on the other hand, the negative aspect brought up again is that with this new technology, it affects the traditional child’s up bring. For example instead of them going out to the park with their friends, they are now preferring to stay in and surf the web or play on computer games etc.
So the main item that is brought to our attention here by Siva is how there is a whole new culture divide between two generation which are next to each as the result in digital technology advances and the affects on today’s children’s up bringing.
Vaidhyanathan, S. (2007) The Googleization Of Everything
http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/2007/12/the_problem_with_digital_nativ.php
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