SNA/New Text Literacies
we are inspiring anthropolgists inspired by what different cultures consider TEXT. In our digital aged society, there are many new ways to communicate, understand and collaborate. Maybe throughout this search we can find and help inovate new processes of horizontal communication via internet creating a world wide web of democracy! Feb 13
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Eager to find out what impact blogging and social media could have on the dissemination of her work, Melissa Terras took all of her academic research, including papers that have been available online for years, to the web and found that her audience responded with a huge leap in interest in her work. In October 2011 I began a project to make all of my 26 articles published in refereed journals available via UCL’s Open Access Repository – “Discovery “. I decided that as well as putting them in the institutional repository, I would write a blog post about each research project, and tweet the papers for download. Would this affect how much my research was read, known, discussed, distributed? I wrote about the stories behind the research papers – the stuff that doesn’t make it into the official writeup.
The verdict: is blogging or tweeting about research papers worth it? | Impact of Social Sciences
Daily Infographic | A New Infographic Every Day | Data Visualization, Information Design and Infographics
Everybody loves saving money, especially if it’s easy. Today’s infographic 15 Way to Fill Your Pot of Gold offers 15 easy tips to put some money back in your pocket. I tip I can attest to is not watching t.v.
Oh no, not another social network! Between all the noise about Facebook's upcoming IPO, the Twitter censorship imbroglio, and Google +'s constantly shifting privacy and identity policies, is the business world really ready for more social networking? Yes, and here's why. Social networking is about to shift from chasing large numbers of followers--which is really a publishing broadcast model and not a business contacts model--to a smaller group of well-connected individuals. The race to acquire lots of LinkedIn contacts, Facebook connections, and Google+ and Twitter followers can quickly lead to social networking fatigue, as you spend your day updating activities, responding to various email platforms, and aligning your networking activities with business goals. The big networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn really don't want you to leave their confines.
The Next Big Social Network Is You - The BrainYard - InformationWeek
Revealing Economic Terrorists: a Slumlord Conspiracy
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis A client of ours -- a small, not-for-profit, economic justice organization [EJO] -- used social network analysis [SNA] to assist their city attorney in convicting a group of "slumlords" of various housing violations that the real estate investors had been side-stepping for years. The housing violations, in multiple buildings, included: The EJO had been working with local tenants in run-down properties and soon started to notice some patterns. The EJO began to collect public data on the properties with the most violations.
openp2pdesign.org: About
openp2pdesign.org is a strategic design project, organized as an open source community , for studying and enabling design projects that deal with Open, Collaborative and Complex Systems . We will design its collaborative activities using the Open P2P Design methodology by the end of 2010, and then everybody will be able to participate in it. You can track this design process and its project about how openp2pdesign.org actually works on meta.openp2pdesign.org . Open P2P Design is a community-centered design methodology for co-designing with a community open and p2p organizational forms with an open and p2p design process.I have been helping students, teachers develop new media literacies for 30 years- or whenever our text centric culture began to yield some of its ground to more visual and auditory forms of expression. (Stand by- smell and touch are on their way). Here is a project I thought members might like to know about. The short story is that the Alaska Society for Technology in Education (ASTE, ISTE's Alaska affiliate) created the "conference artist-in-residence program" for its 2012 conference. I got to direct it.
New Media Literacies
See 33,000 dangerous buildings threatening Detroit schoolchildren's safety: Interactive map | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
Detroit schoolchildren walking to school must pass thousands of blighted or dangerous structures that may conceal attackers or other hazards. Under Mayor Dave Bing's promise to demolish 10,000 buildings by the end of his term, 4,200 have been demolished so far (shown with blue dots), but many more remain on the list to be demolished by 2013 (shown with yellow dots). A staggering 26,000 more (shown with red dots) have been identified as unsafe but no funding currently exists to tear them down. Click on the Detroit schools below, either marked in green on the map or in the list below, to see how many such dangerous buildings surround those schools, and to see how many dangerous buildings exist within a 400-yard radius of the buildings -- the distance identified as a priority for dangerous buildings to be torn down.For over a decade, Stamen has been exploring cartography with our clients and in research . These three maps are presented here for your enjoyment and use wherever you display OpenStreetMap data. These high-contrast B+W (black and white) maps are featured in our Dotspotting project. They are perfect for data mashups and exploring river meanders and coastal zones.
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Explore Data Visualizations | visualizing.org
Explore data visualizations and infographics that make sense of complex issues, all uploaded by the Visualizing community and published under a Creative Commons license . To dive in, check out the most recent pieces or select a tag above to browse the visualizations by topic. Want to publish your own work on Visualizing?About | Pixel 77
On this blog you will find tutorials, design resources, articles about vector illustrations , t-shirt designs and more. We will present new designs that we think are worth while and cool. The blog will have also updates about our company Designious .
I know, same question, but actually they are different depending who is asking me. Some people ask me and they don’t really know what a graphic designer does; I can tell by their inflection. I try to answer their question in a really broad statement that clarifies the common projects that graphic designers do. Most people will understand what I mean when I say, web design or posters or designing logos and advertisements. Then others, usually if they are in the design field in any way, are really asking, “what sort of graphic design do you want to get into?” That’s when I get nervous and excited at the same time.
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Home The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research.