Sunday, 20 May 2012

Blog, week 11; Aggregation


This is a video blog on Aggregation. It discusses some readings from Weeks 11 and 12, in particular, Guillaud's (2010) and Edward's (2010) readings, and the trend towards aggregation on a global scale, the positive effects of this, and the tools needed to develop a global aggregation of information that can be accessible to the wider community. I can provide the written form of this blog if required.



 Bibliography:

Dodson, Wes (2009) ‘Dawn of the Systems Age’, Page 3.14 <http://scienceblogs.com/seed/2009/12/dawn_of_the_systems_age.php#more>

 Edwards, Paul N. (2010) A Vast Machine Cambridge, MA:MIT Press. Read pages xiii-xxiii (in“The Introduction’) and all of ‘Chapter One’. You can download both of these from <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12080&mode=toc>. [I’m hoping these remain available, which is likely .. it's very worthwhile buying and reading this book. I've done so and it's really quite something]

Guillaud, Hubert (2010) (on Danah Boyd) ‘What is implied by living in a world of flow?’, Truthout, January 6, <http://www.truthout.org/what-implied-living-a-world-flow56203>
Nachmanovitch, Stephen (n.d.) [1982] ‘Gregory Bateson: Old Men Should Be Explorers’, Whole Earth Catalog (‘Understanding Whole Systems’ section) <http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2035/article/298/gregory.bateson.old.men.ought.to.be.explorers

My YouTube video, uploaded from my computers webcam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2tFZtu1h2w&feature=youtu.be