The Dystopian Filter : Social Networking Pre-eclampsia

As we drove home today from the TAFE NSW Dubbo ‘Networked Delivery’ workshops on wiki’s and other networked technology demystifications I was struck with a moments silence where re-collections of the digital politic pressed on my inner too-hard-basket.

In a time when too many kids photos spoiled the broth and when the world showed it’s true colours and respectfully showed it’s Medusa like schizophrenic cocktail of opinion.

Wiki’s as dangerous spaces where teachers could say something out of turn…perhaps even link to their Facebook account , imbed a Flickr widget or heaven forbid begin a discussion which leads other people via cleverly located Google map script complete with GPS co-ordinates to their own home !

All of this occuring on a day when the TALON’s are out at education.au exploring DER and  what it means to be living and working in a networked economy tagged by Diigo, commented on and literally dissected via the myriad of social networked channels that underpin our current and dystopic quagmire of media driven fear mongering .

Perhaps rightly dystopic considering the number of ten year olds posing as pedophiles courting and grooming in the more abhorrent and frightening play-act mode of networked politic.

Kim Flintoff and I have pressed the point last year that this behavioural approach to social networking exclusion resembles a mortal morphic form entering the zone of digital pre-eclampsia…..whole sectors unsure of how to deal with the forensically oriented vivisections of organisational servitude bundled through a datastream reflecting back as painful shards of a broken connection with reality.

Bebo indeed. The meta of the morphic …..where your latest thought became someone elses party plan.

Organisations have much to fear and if the borg and bot count on any governing filter is to go by it’s hardly worth opening the ports for fear of the fumes wafting from the overheated filter. Likewise keeping count of how many Kalishnov’s are being brought into the playground is more realistic a notion than trying to monitor, maintain and moderate even 1/1000th of student opinion transmitted predominantly by mediums and modalities which site in their hip pockets.

Two for every human alive in Australia according the the last statistic.

Interestingly the governance issue arose again today in more ways than one. I have a demand notice of removal of  an image posted on a website speaking to the very topic itself open to the net - ‘no’ duty of care….how apt.

How will we take our curriculum forward when we are still squabbling over coffee cup order in the staffroom ?

When the ‘C’ between the ‘I’and the ‘T’ has got the lowest form of Shakepearen slander attached to it’s place in the acronym ?

How much longer will it take Education legal to start it’s own Bebo account to connect more substanitally to the cohort it so cleverly wants to police ?

They have a bebo account ?…..your kidding me ! Whats their username ?

….arhhh dystopia. Mildly myopic.

Seriously deluded if thinking social networking is the next rock’n'roll evil.

More musings over at http://nswlearnscope.com.

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