Frances Bell’s Blog

With 2 colleagues at Salford, I am delivering a module called Emerging Technologies to ca 500 year 1 students at Salford Business School and great fun it is too! In the first lecture Marie Griffiths showed the students this video.

I think that they quite liked it, putting their education on the context of what they needed to learn to survive in a changing world.

It reminded me of a powerpoint slide show I had seen but cannot for the life of me now find.

Then today I came across this video, subtly different, same sound track and many resonances.

These videos and my memories of the slide show leave me with many questions. What are the links between them?  Where does each get their statistics from?  Can I trust their interpretation of the statistics? Why don’t they expose their sources? and attribute their links to what influenced them?

But then, I am just a boring scholar! who enjoyed watching the videos! and wonders how I can make sense of how we recognise the work of others and how it influences us.  I do think it’s important because ignoring attribution seems distressingly like the experience of ‘others’ through history - women, the poor, ethnic minorities, etc.