[Air-L] The slow decay of mySpace?

[Lois Ann Scheidt]

Martin, I have been thinking about both the transition and metric 
issues for sometime.  When I teach entry-level informatics, one of our 
writing assignments is for each student to do a form of 
"technobiography."  The term was coined in "Cyborg Lives?  Women's 
Technobiographies."

As most things can be on the internet, when I started using the term 
with my classes in 2005 the only sites, found via Google search, were 
those related to the authors of the original work.  Now I see the term 
is gaining some traction.

Technobiographies are the only clear way I see in teasing out 
technological migration.  Right now I'm only using them as a writing 
assignment...but I have plans for future research using their writing 
as data.  After diss of course.

Reference List

Henwood, Flis, Kennedy, Helen M. T., & Miller, Nod (2001). Cyborg 
Lives?  Women's Technobiographies. York UK: Raw Nerve Books Limited.

Kennedy, Helen M. T. (Winter 2003). Technobiography:  Researching 
lives, online and off. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 
26(1), 120-139.  Abstract available at 
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=GM2P8hQwx9Hs0hpk7vnM03LJzS3Gjy1QLLMncL4nvQplyL4qbSjp!-1144844678?docId=5001930468

Lois Ann Scheidt

Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana
University, Bloomington IN USA

Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and
IUPUC, Columbus IN USA

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