BJK

MSc Digital Education student with the University of Edinburgh. Currently living and working in Hong Kong

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This has congruence with how Satchell and Dourish (2009) frame disconnection - i.e. those “for whom reluctant use is associated with nostalgic wistfulness for a world passing out of existence” #dfled #disconnection

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Halcyon days of yore... 😂#disconnection #dfled

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There is a slight irony of using online media to promote offline lifestyle. It seems that the travel industry has heavily commodified disconnection, as there is certainly no shortage of memes and hashtags on the matter #dfled #disconnection #disconnectoreconnect

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This quote from Ramona Dremljuha ;
(2018) basically sums up my sentiments towards social media and #disconnection #dfled

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“Like other disengaged users, (non) users ‘ discontent is mainly rooted in the perceived usefulness of a site and the social conventions created in specific networks, as well as the expectations that come along with new ways of connecting via social media sites” #dfled

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Story from the future
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https://t.co/FivELYubgn

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Has links to this this week’s readings and the paradoxical relationship between digital solutionism and environmental sustainability - made me chuckle 🤭 #dfled

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This quotation made the consider the impact of digital track & trace for coronavirus, and how much governments may be currently overreaching / abusing their powers of digital surveillance, in the guise of public health measures #dfled

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“Digital technologies...are imagined as being both uniquely suited and unquestionably necessary tools for solving political, economic environmental problems; while their dangers - to individual freedom, political democracy.. are rarely acknowledged” (Kuntman and Rattle, 2019)

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However, is this really protest-lite, or are young people simply working smarter by using social media to access amplified soap boxes and community networks of common ideologies. #dfled

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Interesting argument being put forward by Boulianne et. al. (2020) who suggests that youth activism, in many countries, is now taking place online as ‘slacktivism’ #dfled

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And not forgetting fraternity Anonymity’s ability to ‘traverse cultural differences’ has led to new forms of collaboration and human-to-human interaction. #Dfled

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As an historian, I’m admiring how Bachmann et al. (2017) parallels anonymity with the tenets of the French Revolution - liberté, egalité and fraternité. 🇫🇷 #doled

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Anonymity to can also engender equality by concealing social hierarchies such as class, gender, ethnicity, age and education.

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It’s made me reflect on my students and their possible ‘surveillance imaginaries’ - what pressure does this place them under, as they try to navigate life while curating a version of themselves, sanitised and self branded, fit for the eyes of prospective universities and parents?

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Duffy and Chan (2019) present some interesting insights into self-presentation of young adults - particularly as pervasive social media, and their encouragement of sharing, visibility and exposure, impel us deeper into a ‘surveillance culture’ #dfled

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“The emancipatory potential of disconnection... is often deactivated and subsumed by the dynamics of digital capitalism under the innocuous façade of escape” (Natale and Treré, 2020, 628)

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Camp Grounded piqued my interest. Natale and Treré (2020) argue that this type of ‘disconnective escapism’ is merely a tool to keep us tethered to the ‘capitalist status quo’. https://t.co/0hDcWmJF0b #dfled

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Interesting blog about parenting and education for a digital future. A good few pandemic articles and the impact of Covid 19... #dfled https://t.co/2FZ47sHpAu