SOCRMx News – Page 13 – Aggregated blogs for the Introduction to Social Research Methods MOOC

Merging identities

Gee (2004) states that learning in semiotic domains always involves some kind of identity work in the form of taking on new identities and forming bridges between old identities. People in Western cultures define their identity often through their knowledge … Read the rest

Critique on ROMA in Second Life

We have been asked to write a critique of an educational resource in Second Life (SL).

I spent so much time in Second Life searching for a suitable educational resource, I think I have had an overdose of it now. … Read the rest

Avatars – why appearance matters

It took me a while to get used to Second Life. When I first tried to modify my avatar’s appearance, she lost her torso and legs, so I wandered around with a transparent body. My experience of being present in … Read the rest

Learning spaces

Law and Mol (2001) suggest that social relations exist in multiple, coexisting spaces overlapping each other. They are borrowing metaphors from topology to define these four spaces as:

Regions
Network
Fluid
Fire

As distance learners we deal with all four … Read the rest

The cyber-metamorphosis

The word cyberspace sounds a bit outdated and too “spacy” for our actual interpretation of the virtual world. Nevertheless, there are some new word formations like cybercrime, cyberwar and cyberterrorism that are very tangible these days. It seems that the … Read the rest

Fooling the senses

We heavily rely on our senses, especially on our vision. It is, as O’Loughlin states: “that superior sense through which a self-knows the world” (2006, p. 6). Luckily for designers, the vision is relatively easy to fool. The eyes are … Read the rest

Hello ONL colleagues!

This is indeed my very first blog. I’m really excited to get a hand on this new technology. Well, maybe not so new fa technology but it’s certainly time for me to stretch my technology (il)literacy envelope.

Hope to share … Read the rest