Kiralee outlined some points about the creative critical essay that were raised in this week’s symposium. Obviously very relevant to us all at this point in the semester:

– If your essay is about network literacy, it is relevant and perhaps suggested that you use a website with links and pop-ups and the like to demonstrate your own network literacy. That is, so long as it makes sense to do so and doesn’t leave her sitting there thinking, ‘why is there a link out here?’

– Footnotes are useful in demonstrating you have a wide knowledge of the topic you are writing about

Lev, on the other hand, took away some interesting points about databases. He notes that while we generally regard databases as online tools, this does not necessarily have to be the case, for example, “technically an encyclopaedia is a database”.

David expands on the idea of the data base by looking at a “new cultural algorithm”, that is “reality> media> data> data-base”.