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#25 Re: Food for thought?
March 31, 2015, 10:24:00 pm
What the fuck is a "post Google generation" Tom?

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#26 Re: Food for thought?
March 31, 2015, 10:55:35 pm
Thank you Sloper, appreciated.

Looking at the course content there, Aberdeen does include modules such as  semiotics and intercultural communication whilst East Anglia also includes analysing culture and media and power. These are the domain of critical theory/sociology/philosophy and merit some consideration in my view. A lot of the rest of those courses seems very vocational. (Which doesn't exactly fly in the face of the Guardian article's argument).

Media studies is a funny one though.  After all, (I'm told) delve back into antiquity and the distinctions between art/philosophy/literature/history et al were not there. Myth was reality, reality myth and a subject which joins different modern modes of communication and thought under one umbrella should/could be bang on the multi-disciplinary money.


I've taught 'critical thinking' (hosted a club at lunch more like) for a while now. It came out of coaching Oxbridge applicants in U6 to think a bit more broadly pre-interview and then I joined forces with an English - sorry- media studies teacher.. from which I came to see that subject as 'English in all media', a different beast to its popular reputation. Obviously what it is at undergrad level may be different to school, and vary between institutions. But still, in a technological age its hour may yet come. (And I speak as someone who in dirtbag climber days regularly used to hitch to Buoux with three luxuries only, of which one was a fountain pen. I kid you not)  :)

I'm happy to be held as witness for the pen. It's true.

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#27 Re: Food for thought?
March 31, 2015, 10:58:16 pm
What the fuck is a "post Google generation" Tom?

Snapchat.

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#28 Re: Food for thought?
March 31, 2015, 11:13:46 pm
What the fuck is a "post Google generation" Tom?

Snapchat.
I meant for research not sending pictures of their tits.

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#29 Re: Food for thought?
March 31, 2015, 11:15:06 pm
Biology...

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#30 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 08:49:49 am
What the fuck is a "post Google generation" Tom?

Anonymous research...

DuckDuckGo.com
Tor Project

Then there are some useful tools...

Https-everywhere
Ghostery
uBlock
Privacy Badger
Terms of Service Didn't Read

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#31 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 09:05:54 am
so are people publishing their research findings on snapchat so that it is less likely to  be stolen?

cool

meaning that you can only include references to the bits that you can remember from your one and only reading of other people's work

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#32 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 09:38:11 am
What the fuck is a "post Google generation" Tom?

A good question. I think its something I've read before - or I may have just made it up (if so check me out!).

What I mean by the term is that a 'post google generation' are people who have grown up with google being present for their whole life. In that its completely normal - as normal as a tap or road is to them (or us). They have never known a world pre google. As such google/www is not something that is new or revolutionary (or was even once seen as such to them) it is their norm. So finding something out by googling it - is fine, but its the normal way #yawn thats always been there..

Snapchat is an interesting one... I was talking to some of our students about it and many use it not for sending pictures of their nether regions (as the Daily Mail would like to think) but for regular messages. In an age where most communication is recorded (twitter/facebook etc..) and can come back to haunt you later on in life - having something that disappears after 10 secs is great.. after all, most that is communicated via social media is dribble/gossip/worthless..  so why should it stick around for ever.


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#33 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 09:52:10 am
Yeah that makes more sense, cheers. I struggle to remember how I did things pre internet!

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#34 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 10:13:59 am
Worked Without continual distraction for starters..

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#35 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 10:16:43 am
Yeah that makes more sense, cheers. I struggle to remember how I did things pre internet!
bought magazines in petrol stations when there wasn't a female cashier on?

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#36 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 10:20:45 am
E mail.

It's all but dead in that generation.

We were mailing pay slips.

Then one staff member asked for copies of their slips, so we said "but it's mailed to you every month".
They replied "email? I don't check that, it's full of junk. I only use it to send CV's when applying for a job. Can't you send them on FB?"


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#37 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 10:40:14 am
Yeah that makes more sense, cheers. I struggle to remember how I did things pre internet!
bought magazines in petrol stations when there wasn't a female cashier on?

One of the funniest lines I have ever heard was one of my friends going up to the glassed off counter at a 24 hour garage and asking for a copy of Escort and 'your vein-iest chocolate bar' (it ended up being a snickers..)

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#38 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 10:43:10 am
Young kid, several A*s. Couldn't get  head around the fact that changing the work handset for landline telephone, did not mean changing the number.
That and many other similar examples, lead me to conclude there is an epidemic of a very special kind of stupid. One that still manages to get good exam results.

Or as we used to say in the Andrew, " They could tell you the square-root of a baked bean tin, but they can't bloody open it".


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Maybe it's just down to what kids these days are familiar with? Their point of reference for these things are mobiles, for which getting a new handset effectively means getting a new number (yes I know you can keep the SIM, but how many people actually do this?)

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#39 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 10:45:06 am
The only people I know who don't do this are criminals.  :-\

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#40 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 11:16:58 am
or paranoid

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#41 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 11:25:12 am
or paranoid

Are you both talking about me?

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#42 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 11:44:54 am
I texted you

have you changed your number?

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#43 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 11:48:06 am
I texted you

have you changed your number?

I've a 'burn' phone now...

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#44 Re: Food for thought?
April 01, 2015, 12:28:00 pm
8210? I had one of these when they first came out.  :offtopic:

 

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