notes from the edge - 9
To think when I started to contemplate coming here for my MLIS, I was planning on commuting on a daily basis. I find Mondays to be very long. Up at 5 am this morning, on the road by 7:30 (after ironing first, and packing up my week's worth of food). Today I dropped off my daughter in Guelph before continuing on to London. This commute was the first time the weather was not in my favour. It was fog with either sleet or rain the entire way. It is moments like this when I treasure my basement room, cold and poorly lit though it is, rather than the thought of driving nearly 2 hours each way on a daily basis.
I thought that I was being somewhat selfish in doing this degree. But today, on the drive to Guelph with my daughter, she told me that she thought I was courageous. I like the sound of that better.
The study group got together today to discuss the readings for this week. By far, the most interesting was the one on the The Social Life of Documents(Brown, Duguid 1996). I was especially taken with the concept of the "imagined" community, the community of interested individuals that develops around the sharing of a document. This is especially interesting when you think of the phenomena occurring on a regular basis on Youtube, Facebook and so on. Most of these individuals who comment on or participate in these groups have never and likely will never meet, but are most definitely connected in ways that are real and potent. This has implications in the political arena (investigate the groups springing up around the issue of proroguing Parliament) as well as in the development of social consciousness (the Haiti disaster is but one example of the power of the "imagined" community).
Peggy
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