This is NOT a plug for SLIS… I mentioned it in class last week during our list discussion and so I’m posting the link. http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/about-social-informatics I’ve been reading some of Kling’s work and it definitely relates to some of the issues we’ve discussed in class, especially the role of society while designing technology. The definition…
After reading the articles for this week (the first two, i couldn’t find the third.. is it up and I’m missing it?) , I was blown away by the explanation given of Heidegger’s theories in the Winograd & Flores article. It helped me make sense (I think) of many things… many ideas that were fluttering…
Read more “We design ourselves in language!” Selective attention rules.
BRUCE WILLIS Color – as in Sin City or Hero o Color effects mood, draws attention to various aspects • Lighting – o Lighting effects mood • Sound o • Montage • Camera Position • Mise en scene o Overall composition –props, actors, scene • Acting • Special effects o Constructed sets o Backdrops o …
It seems to me that Jeff’s presentation really caused people to questions some ideas… It was a great presentation and had many great insights into a subset of our culture. I don’t know nearly as much about these subjects as Jeff and most of you. I am constantly humbled by the theories and multidisciplinary concepts…
Lectures 3,4,5,6,9,10 are all up now as downloadable m4a files @ approx 30-40MB each. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~tdbowman/590_podcasts/
Just as a quick post: I was looking up machinima and animutation on the ‘tubes’ and i came across this influx web site that had an interesting little post about Lily Allen’s video produced in the Sims environment… nothing too new -but- she actually reworked her song into the “Simlish” language used in the Sims…
You’ve probably heard of or studied the Pygmalion Effect. Basically that peer expectation leads to either improvements or decline. The famous quote from the George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion” (the movie My Fair Lady): “You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking…
UPDATED: Now have backlogs for Sept 4 & Sept 6… The Sept 4th podcast is Erik’s lecture, Sept 6th is the Manovich discussion. I will try to get the other podcasts up this week. PODCASTS : http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~tdbowman/590_podcasts/
While reading through Barnard, I couldn’t help continuously going back to the idea of ‘understanding’ and how it relates to the idea of ‘material without qualities’. Understanding, from my interpretation of the assigned Barnard’s chapters, seems to contain both aspects of meaning and intention. What I interpreted the chapter to be saying is that to…
Interaction Culture 