tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133514722948599255.post1265218453445093409..comments2023-06-24T01:51:27.999-07:00Comments on Literacy in the Digital University: Digital University (part 2)Robin Goodfellowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00138408404345093163noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133514722948599255.post-1204182138348840852011-04-01T10:00:28.519-07:002011-04-01T10:00:28.519-07:00Very interesting. Can I also add that some recent ...Very interesting. Can I also add that some recent thinking in Science & Technology Studies also seems to reflect the idea that there is not a 'given' social context busily shaping the technology, but a mutual shaping process, such that it may be possible to learn something about the sociality of the user group from the events that they contruct as 'technological' (see Adrian Mackenzie 2005 'Problematising the Technological: The Object as Event?', Social<br />Epistemology, 19: 4, 381 — 399)<br /><br />Another happorth: Borgman (talked a lot about her a while back: http://literacyinthedigitaluniversity.blogspot.com/2010/05/borgman-on-digital-scholarship-why-it.html) makes the point that digitisation does not confer additional preservability on data but the opposite. Digital formats are quickly superceded - lots of data from the early days of computing 50 years ago is lost for ever whilst print still sits securely and readably in vaults 00s of years later.Robin Goodfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00138408404345093163noreply@blogger.com