Hi, idc friends--<br><br>If any of you has the stamina to wander into Troll Land, my interview with <i>Inside Higher Ed</i> is so far netting more comments on the negative side than the constructive. If you have ideas about pedagogy to add, here's the link. And, if you decline, not a problem. I don't blame you at all. Privately, by far and away the greatest number of responses today have been very positive. The "comments" section is not an indicator, I suppose, of real interest. Best, and great to be here among friends, Cathy<br>
<br><br>"'Now You See It'"<br>
<a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/06/24/new_book_on_the_brain_science_of_attention" target="_blank">http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/06/24/new_book_on_the_brain_science_of_attention</a><br>
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Are our brains cut out for the Internet age? Author of new book says yes -- if classroom and workplace are totally overhauled.<br><br><br><br>
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1. Introduction for Mobility Shifts (Michael Wesch)<br>
2. Introduction for Mobility Shifts (Nishant Shah)<br>
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:26:22 -0500<br>
From: Michael Wesch <<a href="mailto:mike.wesch@gmail.com">mike.wesch@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Hello all,<br>
I already know many of you, so it feels like I am here among friends. For<br>
those of you who don't know me, I am an anthropologist interested in helping<br>
the general public gain a deeper sense of media literacy, helping people<br>
recognize how media change our world in ways we might not intend, and<br>
empowering people to connect and communicate more broadly and deeply. My<br>
ultimate goal is to help create more empathy in the world. (I know this all<br>
sounds a bit too grand, and not really all that academic, but since I'm<br>
among friends here I thought I should just be honest.) I was originally<br>
invited to iDC four years ago after publishing The Machine is Us/ing Us.<br>
Since then I have used the video essay as one of my primary forms of<br>
publication. You can see all of my video essays at<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch</a><br>
This past semester I teamed up with a few hundred undergrads from all over<br>
the world and a local HTML5/javascript guru (Garrett Pennington) to create<br>
<a href="http://visionsofstudents.org" target="_blank">http://visionsofstudents.org</a> In this "video collage" I have taken nearly<br>
300 videos, remixed them, and placed them in an HTML5 video framework that<br>
uses javascript to launch the thumbnail of the video, book, or resource that<br>
is currently being shown in the remix. By the end of the video, all videos<br>
are on the screen, along with all the books and links that have influenced<br>
the work. You can click on any of the books, links, or videos to see the<br>
original. My own 10 students each produced a 5 minute video that expands on<br>
one of the main ideas. I think it may be best to let it stand as the rest of<br>
my introduction to the group. Since it was just launched a few days ago, it<br>
captures my current thinking pretty nicely.<br>
Looking forward to the ongoing discussions,<br>
Mike<br>
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Michael Wesch, PhD<br>
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology<br>
Coffman Chair for University Distinguished Teaching Scholars<br>
2010 NITLE Fellow<br>
2009 National Geographic Emerging Explorer<br>
2008 US Professor of the Year<br>
2007 Wired Magazine Rave Award Winner<br>
Director of the Digital Ethnography Working Group<br>
Kansas State University<br>
<a href="mailto:mwesch@ksu.edu">mwesch@ksu.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://mediatedcultures.net" target="_blank">http://mediatedcultures.net</a><br>
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Hello Everybody,<br>
It is great to be a part of this group. I can see a lot of familiar names<br>
that I have always wanted to meet, and a handful of people who I look<br>
forward to meeting again. I completed my doctoral work from the Centre for<br>
the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore where I worked on a thesis<br>
titled "The Technosocial Subject: Cities, Cyberspaces and Cyborgs". It has<br>
been an incredible journey for me so far, from the early days of University<br>
rejections in India, where I was advised that the 'cyberspace' is 'too<br>
flimsy' to be studied to extremely enriching fellowships in East Asia<br>
(Taiwan and China) to now, where I co-founded my own research<br>
organisation<<a href="http://www.cis-india.org" target="_blank">http://www.cis-india.org</a>>in 2008, as Director of<br>
Research.<br>
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A lot of the ambitions and visions that the Centre for Internet and Society<br>
has, draw from my own personal experiences and challenges as a research<br>
student in South Asia, working in a field that still suffers from a paucity<br>
of research and pedagogy. Some of the larger visions that we have are to<br>
build localised, multidisciplinary research infrastructure which can<br>
facilitate further research in the field of Internet and Society, to look at<br>
questions of equity, justice and rights as they get mediated by digital<br>
technologies, and to implement innovative pedagogic models towards an open<br>
and accessible knowledge system. It sounds quite a mouthful, and as a young<br>
research centre, we are still taking small steps towards actualising these<br>
ideas, but they are dreams that drive us in new and often exciting<br>
directions.<br>
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In the last two year, apart from managerial and programmatic commitments<br>
aimed at incubating and facilitating new research within India, I have been<br>
spear-heading a Knowledge Programme called "Digital Natives with a<br>
Cause?"<<a href="http://www.hivos.net/Hivos-Knowledge-Programme/Themes/Digital-Natives-with-a-Cause" target="_blank">http://www.hivos.net/Hivos-Knowledge-Programme/Themes/Digital-Natives-with-a-Cause</a>>The<br>
research inquiry looks at the potentials and possibilities for social<br>
transformation and public participation embedded in young peoples' use of<br>
digital and Internet technologies in the emerging ICT societies of the<br>
Global South. We have been interacting with young people from Asia, Africa<br>
and Latin America to consolidate knowledge about how young people perceive<br>
politics of change and their own role as change makers. The learnings<br>
from these<br>
interactions, <<a href="http://digitalnatives.in" target="_blank">http://digitalnatives.in</a>> with more than a 100 people who<br>
identify themselves as digital natives along with a larger community of<br>
actors who support, draw from, interact and work with digital natives, are<br>
coming out in a book titled "Digital (alter)natives with a cause?" that is<br>
being launched in mid-September. Which means that I might be actually able<br>
to bring some copies with me to the Mobility Shifts workshop :)<br>
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At the workshop in NY, I am going to present some of the work we have done<br>
with a complementary project called The Pathways Project, which actually<br>
looks at digital outcasts and people who live on the fringes of digital and<br>
online technologies. It is a project that seeks to reformulate young<br>
peoples' notions of social justice by working with undergraduate students<br>
who are identified, through affirmative action, as 'underprivileged.' The<br>
project introduces them to different possibilities of digital and internet<br>
activities and helps them implement their own visions of change towards<br>
better articulation and awareness of 'social justice' within their peers as<br>
well as external related communities. The project also asks questions about<br>
the space of the classroom, the changing nature of students' expectations<br>
and the role that mobile technologies of computing and information access<br>
play in reformulating young students' interaction and engagement with larger<br>
social and political movements in the country.<br>
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I shall stop here, before this email becomes a novella. I shall look forward<br>
to learning more about other participants and the discussions that are going<br>
to ensue.<br>
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Warmly<br>
Nishant<br>
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Nishant Shah<br>
Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( <a href="http://www.cis-india.org" target="_blank">www.cis-india.org</a> )<br>
Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09<br>
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