I've been bouncing around the multiverse of YouTube and other digital community sharing spaces... trying to understand the allure and hypnotic draw of these silicon methodones...
It's definitely addictive, intriguing, and full of slights of hand, some real, some sarcastic, and then there's the banter of the easily impressed provoking emotional responses and flames and threads from the technorati and those who have followed something from it's origins or know the context...
Seems to mimic the situation where a newcomer disrupts a settled group, perturbs if you will, and sets off some form of correction and sorting out and re-framing of the interaction to either bring the newcomer into the circle by silent tolerance, chastise them until they stop interrupting, or have the rare form of patience to accommodate and integrate the person with caveats and direction.
I think that this has to do with my frustration with the new media and culture... I'm the newbie in someone else's world, and a wise man once taught me to listen first, act second. So, I'm trying to listen... but my mental models and reference points are not adusted yet to this very impressive culture of people who can and do speak well, thoughtfully, playfully, and with a tongue-in-cheek-don't-take-yourself-too-serious approach to interaction. I DO like that about this "world". My walls of caution and doubt (aka doubting Thomas) are crumbling a bit, and I'm enjoying the interaction as well...
Anyone ever thought about that aspect of this technology and scholarship and practice - how can we as instructional designers and instructors work with these audiences and genres in a way that is as much fun for us as it is for the end user audience / receivers???!!!
More thoughts... your thoughts???
tc
Thursday, June 14, 2007
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In many ways, this is the Open Source world as well. Flames are sort of a way to (re)align (new) members with the ideals of the community. Sometimes, provokers come prepared with asbestos underwear though and manage to alter the direction/focus of the community. From the outside looking in (or attempting to enter) it may seem barbaric, but one might actually view it as almost a right of passage or an initiation of sorts…
An interesting rhetorical dynamic exists when you are limited to text-only, or, text and graphics, and lack the other sensory and non-verbal cues, eh?
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