A Shift in Inquiry - go where you're led

LIBE 477/ /Assignment 1// Part B 

 

Rationale

My research led me down many rabbit holes. It’s unique for a university course to be so broad with their research requirements; the freedom was helpful as I could really let my interest guide me. For instance, I realized right away that “collaborative publishing” which I had thought might be an interesting concept to study was both not at all what I thought it was (in definition) and surely did not pique my interest. On the other hand, searching through our course suggested texts led me down some trails of topics that I had not even heard of. Fascinating.
A large component in my rationale for choosing the resources below was their relevancy. Resources found that were published earlier than 2010 were disregarded as technology has evolved and expanded so vastly within the last decade as has the way we use it.
You’ll notice that these resources don’t cohesively fit into one topic. My interest shifted completely.  My key interest now is a broad look at the impact of ICTs. Some guiding questions are:

·         What are the positive and negative consequences of an entire community having access to ICTs?

·         Is North American society using ICTs positively or negatively?

·         Is not having access to ICTs a social justice issue? Where does inaccessibility fall under Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs in 2020 for those living in North America? What about for those living abroad?

Resource #1:

DWeb Panel: If Big Tech Is Toxic, How Do We Build Something Better? 

Ishikawa Sutton, M. (September 24, 2020). DWeb Panel: If Big Tech Is Toxic, How Do We Build Something Better? Internet Archive Blogs.                             doi: https://blog.archive.org/2020/09/24/dweb-panel-if-big-tech-is-toxic-how-do-we-build-something-better/

What a fascinating resource this is! In response to the opinion that “the internet is broken” as well as the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma”, panelists got together and brainstormed how to, well, fix the internet. The panel discussion itself is over an hour and I have not yet finished it as I needed to move on to find more resources, but this entire concept is crazy. The design process states that there is rarely a finished product as prototypes can always be improved, but I had never put the internet in that category.

 

Resource #2

How the Internet Archive is Ensuring PermanentAccess to Open Access Journal Articles

Newbold, B. (September 15th, 2019). How the Internet Archive is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journal Articles. Internet Archive Blogs. doi:http://blog.archive.org/2020/09/15/how-the-internet-archive-is-ensuring-permanent-access-to-open-access-journal-articles/

Completely on the other end of the spectrum, this resource explains how the wealth of knowledge that humankind has been able to share publicly over the internet is a gift.  The World Wide Web gives access to millions of scholarly journals to anyone on the globe. This precious knowledge needs to be safeguarded so that humankind can continue to have the knowledge of the past and build to it in an organized way. An organization called Internet Archive has archived 9 million open access journals so far and continues to do so.

 

Resource #3

At the Edge of the Internet: Teaching Coding andSustainability to Himalayan Girls

Frances, G., Price, M., Strazds, L., & Walker, D. (2019). At the Edge of the Internet: Teaching Coding and Sustainability to Himalayan Girls. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 45(3), 2-17. doi:https://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/27864/20472

This social experiment shows what happens when a rural school is given ICTs and targets teaching coding to girls. This experiment pairs coding education with applicable sustainability practices that can be used in their town. The impact of this is seen in the article.

Resource #4: 

The Wireless Internet of Things: A Guide to the Lower Layers by Daniel Chew

Chew, D. (2019). The wireless internet of things: A guide to the lower layers. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. 

Sometimes you just realize how little you know. This book is applicable in helping me know what people in the articles are talking about as well as giving me some background knowledge around how the internet works.

Comments

  1. D.McNeeSeptember 30, 2020 at 6:09 AM

    You have curated and annotated a strong list of resources.  I appreciate your personal, reflective narrative,  Your annotations are thoughtful and engaging.  I also appreciate your discussion about your process.  I’m curious to learn more about what you will do with this learning.  If these Reading Reviews will form the basis for your Final Vision Project, what will your digital artifact look like?  You may want to explore some formatting options to see what you can do about adding multimedia elements such as images of your resources and/or embedded video.  These blog elements enhance the experience for your reader.

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