Archiv der Kategorie: Mediaculture of Generation C – Cologne Summer School on Media Sciences 2013

ICT for Development / ICT for Education (OLPC as an example)

Thesis by Antje Breitkopf, 2012:
“Cultural and Educational Implications of Global Media. The One Laptop per Child Initiative in Rural Peruvian Schools.„

Interviews with teachers:
What education do the children need in the countryside?


Presentation including group work results as pdf.

Further information/reading:
about OLPC:

http://www.olpcnews.com/ (independent news community)

about Culture and its loss:
Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures @ TED talks: http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html

Check out my website & blog: www.antje-breitkopf.com for more information and please feel free to contact me, comment and discuss! Thank you for the interesting seminar and good luck!

about Post-Development discourses:

Mediaculture of Generation C

Literature:

Regis Debray:
Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms von Regis Debray und Eric Rauth von Verso (1. April 1996)

Short Version:
Régis Debray, What is Mediology?
Translation of Régis Debray, „Qu’est-ce que la médiologie?“
Le Monde Diplomatique, August 1999, p32.
By Martin Irvine, Georgetown University
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Debray-What_is_Mediology.html

Dirk Baecker:
Communication with Computers, or How Next Society Calls for an Understanding of Temporal Form, 2007
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1867443

For further information:

http://trendbuero.com
http://www.nextnature.net
http://deaddrops.com/
http://www.juliusvonbismarck.com
http://culturalhacking.wordpress.com
http://www.com-com.ch

Download the presentation of the lecture as PDF-File (10MB).