The Fishbowl

Watching and viewing the machine as metaphor
- Watch – to be alertly on the lookout
- View – an instance of seeing or beholding

Reading the others posting
- Immerse- To involve deeply, to plunge into
- Deep- Extending far down from the top
- Understanding – A mental process of a person who comprehends
- Mode – method or way
- Reading – the action or practice of a person who reads

Thinking about Metaphor
- Depict- to represent, to describe
- Mechanistic – of or relating to mechanics
- Way- direction, method, plan or means for attaining a goal
- Illusion- something that deceives by producing a false/misleading impression of reality
- Discern- to recognize as distinct or different
- Picture- a visual representation
- Expression- the power of expressing in words

New Forms of intimacy and friendship
- Google: 1999 Reith Lectures, entitled ‘Runaway World’, the sociologist Anthony Giddens makes the following claim “ There is a global revolution going on in how we think of ourselves and how we form ties and connections with others”
- Intimacy- a close, familiar, deep understanding of something or someone
- Agency- an organization, company, that provides some service for another
- Emotion – any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate ect.
- Creativity- the ability to transcend traditional ideas, tules, patterns, relationships, to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretation
- Self – a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality
- Form- external appearance of a clearly defined area, to make/produce
- Friendship – a friendly relation or intimacy to another

Being in a State of Becoming
- Theory- a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation/prediction for a class of phenomena
- Term- a word or group of words designating something
- Generative- capable of producing or creating something
- Influence- the capacity or power of person or things to be compelling force on or producing effects on the actions, behaviors, opinions of others
- Resemblance- similarity, likeness in appearance
- Imitation – the result or product of imitating
- Analogy – a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
- Becoming (please google with Deleuze) – is not one of imitation or analogy, it is generative of a new way of being that is a function of influences rather than resemblances. The process is one of removing the element from its original functions or bringing about new ones

Learning is an Act of Courage
- Goal – the object or result of a person’s ambition
- Possibility – something that may happen or be the case
- Courage – the strength in the face of pain or grief
- Re – in the matter of , about, concerning
- Mantra – a statement repeated frequently or a word/sound repeated to aid concentration
- Learning – knowledge acquired through experience, study, or being taught
- Create – to bring something into existence or cause something to happen
- Structure – the arrangement of parts to create an organized object
- Dichotomy – a division or contrast between things that are opposed or entirely different
- Symbol – a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object
- Juxtaposition – the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
- Compare – pointing out the similarities or dissimilarities of two things
- Contrast- being strikingly different from something else

Sharing the World
- Affirmation – emotional support or encouragement
- What you have learnt and experienced thus far are the following research methodologies...
- Self-reflection- Is serious thought of owns own core values, character, actions, and motivations
- Participative observation- is a technique researchers use to gain entrance and social acceptance into a foreign culture to better understand the comprehensive understanding of an internal structure of a society.
- Companies could use participative observation to understand the employee working relationship within the organization
- Symbolic interaction – is a micro-level theory that focuses on the relationships among individuals within a society. Communications – the exchange of meaning through language and symbols – is believed to be the way in which people make sense of their social worlds.
- Auto-ethnography- When an author uses reself-reflection and writing exploring personal experience and then connecting this to a wider cultural, political, and social meanings/understandings
- Dichotomous thinking- all or nothing thinking refers to the tendency to evaluate ones personal qualities in extreme
- Structures and structuring
- Interpretation- is an explanation of a view of a person place or thing
- Sharing thoughts – sharing ones thoughts needs to happen at a calm moment where you take responsibility to your own emotions while respecting others and being considerate
- mental processes – All things that an individual can do with their minds
- Please google the above terms. Sort and select your understanding of these terms, one sentence for each and share them in your fishbowl.

- A favorite quote from Luce Irigaray's (please google her name) book “Sharing the World”:
o Contemporary French Feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist
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- “We cannot share the world as it already is, with the exception of the natural world. The world that we can share is always and still to be elaborated by us and between us starting from the perception and affirmation of what and who we are as humans here and now."

Idealization
- Ideal – satisfying one’s conception of what is perfect
- Idealization – the action of regarding something as perfect or better than reality
- Plural – more than one or containing several elements
- Depiction – The action or result of depicting something
- Interpret – explain the meaning of

Society of consumers
- Vignettee- a small illustration photograph which fades into a background without definite borders
- Episode- an event that occurs as part of a larger sequence
- Event – a planned occasion, usually one of importance
- Voice – the sound produced by a person through the mouth, as speech or song
- Create – bring something into existence
- Possibility – what may happen, likely hood
- Zygmunt Bauman- Polish-born sociologist, known for works that examine broad changes in the nature of contemporaty society and their effects on communities and individuals. With a focus on how the poor and dispossessed have been affected by social changes
- "Liquid modernity' (please google Zygmunt Bauman), the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, we become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities we promote. According to Bauman, We have to recast ourselves as products capable of drawing attention to ourselves. This subtle and pervasive transformation of consumers into commodities is the most important feature of the society of consumers.

Knowledge construction in knowledge economy
- Knowledge- information or skills acquired by a person through experience or education
- Theme – a subject of a talk, a piece of writing, and someone’s thoughts
- Construction – a building of something, a style or method
- Worker – activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to get a result
- Economy – the wealth and resources of a country or region, in terms of production and consumption of goods and services

Apperception
- Sharing – giving a portion of something with another or others
- Warrants – justification for actions, beliefs or feelings, usually for police purposes
- Attention- Taking special notice of something or someone
- Transparency – being able to easily see or perceive what is happening
- Authentic – genuine, original ways

Understanding design
- Explicit – stated clearly with detail
- Implicit – implied through not plainly expressed
- Tacit – understood without being directly stated
- Knowledge – facts, information and skills acquired by a person through experience or education