{"id":2588,"date":"2009-12-02T01:48:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T08:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2009-12-02T16:27:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T23:27:50","slug":"hyperculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/12\/02\/hyperculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperculture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last two chapters of Bolter (2001) were an excellent choice to close our readings.\u00a0 As an aside, I would like to say how much I enjoyed the sequencing and intertextuality of the readings in this course.\u00a0 Most courses I have taken offered carefully chosen readings around the key ideas and topics, but none linked them so successfully and recursively as was done here.\u00a0 It was helpful to my own thinking and enjoyable to read Bolter on Ong, Kress cited in Dobson\u00a0and Willinsky, and so on. \u00a0I could cite such pairings all the way back to the first readings.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of those subtle displays of good pedagogy that makes me wonder if I could do a better job selecting and sequencing the readings in my classes.<\/p>\n

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To return to Bolter, however, the argument that the technology used for writing changes our relationship to it (p. 189)<\/a> seems almost self-evident.\u00a0 I know that my approach to writing changes when the tool is a pen versus a word processor.\u00a0 And it is largely for this reason that I avoid text messages.\u00a0 I worry how typing on a tiny keyboard with my thumbs to any<\/a> great extent would affect my relationship with writing (which is already sufficiently adversarial).\u00a0 The discussion of ego and the nature of the mind itself as a writing space was also interesting.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure that I can follow<\/a> where Bolter leads when he suggests that if the book was a good means of making known the workings of the Cartesian mind, hypertext remediates the mind (p. 197).\u00a0 That, it seems to me, accords too little to the ego and too much to networked communications\u2014at least as they currently exist.<\/p>\n

Bolter is certainly correct, however, when he asserts that electronic technologies are redefining our cultural relationships (p. 203).\u00a0 This is especially true for my students.\u00a0 Writing in 2001, Bolter preceded Facebook by at least three years, but he could have been doing Jane Goodall-style field research in my school (watching students use laptops, netbooks and handheld devices to wirelessly access Facebook) when he suggests that we are rewriting \u201cour culture into a vast hypertext\u201d (p. 206).\u00a0 My own efforts at navigating the online reading and writing spaces of the course were, I fear, somewhat hampered by having lived most of my life in \u201cthe late age of print.\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t post a lot of comments, although I attempted to chime in on the Vista discussions.\u00a0 What I realized late in the game was that I should have been more active in posting comments to the Weblog.\u00a0 The strange thing is that I enjoyed reading the weblog posts\u2014and especially enjoyed reading the comments people made about my <\/em>weblog postings.\u00a0 For some reason, however, that didn\u2019t translate to reciprocating with comments in that space.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s because I\u2019m not a blogger or much of a blog reader outside of my MEd classes.\u00a0 I still prefer more traditional (read: professional, authoritative)\u00a0sources for news and opinion.\u00a0 Though, truth be told, I probably read as much news and opinion online as in print. It doesn\u2019t hurt that the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0makes most of its content available online for free and that I have EBSCO and Proquest access at work.\u00a0 It might also be because the other online courses I\u2019ve taken in the past two years tended to use the Vista\/Blackboard discussion space as the <\/em>discussion area, so I think of that as the \u201cappropriate\u201d space for that type of writing.\u00a0 It\u2019s fascinating to analyze one\u2019s own reading and writing behaviours and assumptions in light of what we\u2019ve read and discussed.\u00a0 It also takes me again to my own practice as a teacher.\u00a0 When I next use wikis, for example, with my students, I will try to devise a way (survey,\u00a0discussion tab in the wiki, etc.) \u00a0to find out how they believe their previous online reading and writing experiences influence their interactions and contributions.<\/p>\n

References<\/p>\n

Bolter, J.D. (2001). Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print<\/em>. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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