Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology. And another episode is added to this saga but kudos to Peter Black and QUT for trying to get it going in August rather than the previously scheduled March.
Any updates on this event? While I don’t know that I can actually make it to Australia, I was trying to keep abreast of what took place there. I’m an English professor in Georgia (U.S.), and I’ve actually been doing a good deal of research on the impact of blogs, as part of a paper I’m working on. As a number of posters here have pointed out, the blog is rapidly changing a number of important elements in our culture. On the one hand, they seem to be replacing newspapers and even television news as the primary source for many people’s hard news. This in itself seems destined to shift in radical ways what we typically consider to be “news.” At the same time, people are beginning to get more general sorts of information from blogs as well, a fact that represents a shift in the way we think about general knowledge and what qualifies as “sources” for that knowledge. While there was once a time when reference works were regarded as the only infallible sources of information, increasingly people seem to be abandoning these in favor of stored cultural knowledge in our collective consciousness. It is almost as though we are returning to an oral culture, though obviously with the dramatic difference that this new paradigm is driven by print.
Posted by: Computers | 28 June 2007 at 08:21 AM