“Yes i agree with him concerning
the example with Barkleys of what is truth, well in every example you have
yourself as a point a view and of course as you describe, what is conceivable
or not to you depends on the knowledge you have, and everyone else have their
knowledge as point of view. Therefore i interpret that you mean that "what
is inconceivable cannot exist“ is described for the reality to each person. But
you have to be able to prove to others why it is the "truth" with
facts and be able to question everything. The person in a discussion that can't
disprove you therefore should change their view if they understand your facts
and can confirm them. I think the quotation "what is inconceivable cannot
exist“ is not about each person, more described for "the best proven
view".”
“I totally agree, references would come from
unbiased media, of course there could be reliable articles from media thats not
unbiased as long as their references have accurate information. I believe it
also depends a lot about the topic it concerned.”
1#
“I wonder in what way this will change. Do you
suggest that the way the change is coming, is in the form of adapted media for
each individual by choice, and no solid TV tabloids for example? What do you
think will become of the TV-tabloids?”
2#
“I agree with your statement that we should
choose our content more carefully, but as long as there is solid tabloids and
people follow them and watch shows at set times, or just watch TV at all this
will not change. What is your view of this one generation from here, what will
have changed?”
3#
“I believe this exist in all types of media,
but deception are more dangerous and successful in "one to many"
media forms (obviously to the number of people it reaches "mass").
But more importantly because there is harder to response for ordinary people in
the same media and critisize in retrospect and reach the same viewers, I
believe it don't result in the same impact. It's not that easy to spot either,
and its easier as a consumer to just chose to not consume a specific program of
media if you reach this realisation, than actually respond to it.”
4#
“I agree with that you often get a lot of
"brain stimulation" during the day and come home tired and want to
relax. And if you enjoy these TV-shows there is no discussions about whether
you should watch them or not. Are your opinon that the people who watch TV
enjoy the shows or more that they are to tired to find something that probably
would suit them even better? From my own perspective, I don't find anything
watchable on TV these days, I think its easier to find a program to enjoy on
the internet.”
1#
“Yes, at least we are lucky enough to have
full access to internet i Europe. Comparing to Horkheimers view of mass deception
then, what is your view of what have changed and how heavily we are influenced
now compared to then (in Europe)? In what ways?”
2#
“Great discussion, and very good points made!
By your expression being turned into a marionette to serve the masses, you mean
that the "leader" turn from serving their own view into serving
others. I'm guessing you mostly referring to people with influences over big
areas, like politicians. I agree with that but also think that more powerful
people that have influence in the same area have more of a "bad"
influence of what you should think than the masses. I don't believe that just
the masses make you loose your critical thinking, but overall its hard to tell
who lost their critical thinking and who have not.”
“The way the benefits and limitations is
presented gives the impression that none of them are convincing which may be a
good thing, to let you make your own opinion out from facts. No exaggeration at
either side, but the paper dosen't form a suggestion through a discussion later
which makes it harder to form your opinon when there is no argumentation about
the most critical/beneficial objectives concerning either options. Therefore
it's hard to get convinced from these stated benefits and limitation out of any
context.”
“When playing Boggle I also had
the same opinon at first concerning that quantitative methods often are used in
relatively new fields where a lot of research does not exist yet, and that you
use this collected statistical data to conduct qualitative research. Which I
afterwards reconsiderd. I think the best thing with this seminar was that this
kinds of questions was brought up and discussed. It's a good way to put views
in perspective, you gain a lot from discussing opinions in groups/class. The so
far best seminar. In contrast to our monday-seminar what is your opinion of
that seminar? What did you gain/learn from these discussions of quantitative
papers that was useful during wednesdays-seminar?”
“In this seminar we discussed
quantitative methods, in consideration to our last seminar (wednesday) that
also contained discussion about qualitative methods. Did you get any new
perception concerning either of these methods during the seminar?”
“Thats a good question Carl, I didn't get the
feeling that this new explorative new types of interaction through physical
programming have any base of demand. I can't think of any product offhand that
feels specifically in need for this kind of interaction. But i guess that you
need to experience and create a demand for everything thats new. I feel that it
would be easier to relate if there would have been more of a everyday item that
was integrated with this physical programming. As you mention, an application
would have been a good choise.”
“I agree with your comment about
limitations of prototypes "Very often the prototype is far from the
finished product in many aspects." I think that this might give misleading
feedback from test-users if the prototype lack complete features, in some
cases. Maybe not very misleading but may differ a lot from a later high
fidelity prototype. But I still believe that prototype testing is of strong
value even though if you only got a low fidelity prototype. A small picture or
a hunch of the prototype use, I believe give a better foundation for
development and error findings compared to other evaluation methods excluding
test-users. Do you agree?”
1#
“Thank you Adam! The word
"abandoned" was defined as either completely abandoned or reduced
usage. I would also like to clarify that the participants was all college
students and all lived on campus. I believe this fact had a bigger affect on
the abandonment of IM compared to other social environment. Some comments suggested
that some of the main reasons they reduced their use of IM, was because it was
so close to walk over to a friend and have face-to-face conversation. That was
more appreciated and it felt ridiculous to use IM when you had that option. I
feel that this conclusion or motivation to why the participants IM use was
reduced is misleading. It's a very certain environment, students living on a
campus should not have been my first choose of target group. That might be one
of the biggest weaknesses in this paper that the research was conducted on
participants that is somewhat more isolated then most of the population.”
“The interview questions wasn't attached with
paper so I have no way of knowing how the test was executed more than as
described in the text as an open ended interview. Thereby no way to compare
what may have differed in the interview from the first participant to the end
participant. The only information concerning changes during the interview was
described following: "The interview protocol was iteratively refined
during the first 3–4 interviews, but was relatively stable after that. The
order of items was occasionally changed to adapt to the flow of conversation
and particular circumstances of certain participants." From this
information we can only tell that the order questions and subjects was
discussed were changed and redefined questions. Further changes can only be
left to speculations. From own experiences when conducting interviews, there is
always a chance to influence participants and lead them on to say conclusions
you as a interviewer are looking for. That may have happened and been improved
after self reflection between tests. Do you have any further suggestions on the
topic?”
“Well it's the first time I encountered Narratives and have just
seen it applied on one research which makes it hard to form a solid opinion.
However I can imagine some examples which may explain this critique. First of
all if we take this papers ( Situating Internet Use: Information-Seeking Among
Young Women with Breast Cancer) way of conduct in consideration. Where the
collected data consists of stories, there are hard to get confirmation
concerning the truth in the story. Even though all participants stories are
true there may be still hard to prove everything. In other methods were data
are collected, the data can be recorded and proven if the method is analysing
some kind of conduct. On this point I disagree, but I still consider this as a
good method. As we discussed on the seminar, there may be more effective to
post-reflect on an event to be able to detach feelings playing a role present
of an event. It may give a better picture. What do you think about my
reasoning?”
