Comments on: “Born Digital” by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

By: the_interventionist

the_interventionist — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:23:33 +0000

Re: academics and “interventions” — I disagree, c.f Slavoj Zizek for one example of a heavily footnoted text that actually considers the possibility of intervention.

By: Tiger

Tiger — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:54:18 +0000

good review.. good luck with your phd.. whats the topic

By: Tiger

Tiger — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:52:34 +0000

Good review… all the best for your phd… what is the topic..

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:15:44 +0000

Well written (as ever). As I posted today on the character strengths of Priests/mavens, Knights/evangelists and Renaissance men/Relaters, I was happy to see a “priest” explain the work of a “knight”.

I did a three year gig teaching MGMT101 and I found ‘othering’ quite a useful emotional response to learning the culture of our massive lecture halls. My opposite numbers were losing their tempers over cell phones etc. At first, I was baffled by a lot of behaviors. Gradually it dawned on me that “this generation” is as different to mine as “baby boomers” were to WWII vets.

Once I accepted that there was a new dynamic to learn, I no longer expected people to follow the norms of my youth, and I enjoyed the ride – a lot. I’ve dilly-dallied shifting my career to follow “digital native” interests but I am drawn back over and over again. Increasingly I am beginning to see my past life as the other!

By: leafar

leafar — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:06:50 +0000

I am not an academic, but do read a lot of papers, and i love your argumentation. Sometimes I try to have a conversation with a few of my academic friends and feel a bit rejected. I am not sure to be as good as the two writers but I would have loved that one of my friend told me something like that.

Bridging gap, is better than just scream Mind the gap between the train (academics) and the platform (the rest of us).

This made my day.

By: John Larkin

John Larkin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:27:26 +0000

Enjoyed reading this review of the book. Yes, the term ‘digital natives’ alos rubs me the wrong way yet your post has made rethink the term. I shall have to read the book and see how the term has indeed be reclaimed and grounded. Thanks for the pointer. Cheers, John.