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#EDCMOOC: utopias & dystopias – looking to the past (part 2)

Good To Great

As well as the videos covered in my last post , the resources for the first week of Edinburgh University’s E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC included a paper by Daniel Chandler about technological determinism. I haven’t done enough supplementary reading to feel well-informed about the theory and criticisms of it.

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#EDCMOOC: utopias & dystopias – looking to the past (part 2)

Good To Great

As well as the videos covered in my last post , the resources for the first week of Edinburgh University’s E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC included a paper by Daniel Chandler about technological determinism. I haven’t done enough supplementary reading to feel well-informed about the theory and criticisms of it.

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#EDCMOOC: being human – reasserting the human

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The broad topic is ‘being human’ and the threats that technology poses to ‘the human’, and this week’s resources focus on re-asserting the human. Several of the resources this week raise the question of mediation, non-mediation and the illusion of non-mediation. The other resources.