Wednesday, 21 August 2013

The views of CLAY SHIRKY and ANDREW KEEN.








































In this brief lecture Clay Shirky explains how the mobile phone and social media can make history. This resource is probably more for the teacher than the student....but i could be wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_iN_QubRs0
This lecture is from 2009 but is still an extremely interesting and relevant media text.

ANDREW KEEN is not a big fan of digital media and he offers a very different viewpoint. Click on links below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fnb13MII88
This is KEEN explaining why he feels that digital media is encouraging THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR and that digital media is resulting in cultural chaos and moral decay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGG1QKG6AjQ
More KEEN:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jul/20/computingandthenet.books
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFaNFj6QkJI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQtCXSxdM0&feature=related


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