Category Archives: New Media

Marie Bjerede on Phones in the Classroom

March 4, 2010 – 8:04 pm

Practically speaking, I’m finding verification and term and concept searching in the classroom quite handy. I encourage laptop and smart device use. Today we had to look up some questionable statists in an article from a student paper, finding interesting issues to spring from. The laptops and the cell phones are an [...]

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Health Care and Narrative

February 26, 2010 – 6:51 pm

This is a typical (real) story. S goes to the PCP for Ailment A and Ailment A proves too much for the PCP (Primary Care Physician). So the PCP refers S to a Specialist. Maybe it’s a hernia, maybe some strange growth inside or out. S goes to the Specialist and [...]

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Multiplatform Publishing

February 2, 2010 – 7:44 pm

This semester (as time for me is broken into semesters) I’ll be working on taking a few documents through a multiplatform publishing work flow. The first objective will be take all the Leon stories from the 100 Days project and make them available on mobile, e-reader, and standard screen.
The core technologies are HTML, [...]

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Clay Shirky on how has the internet changed thinking

January 12, 2010 – 8:22 am

Clay Shirky writes
As we know from arXiv.org, the 20th century model of publishing is inadequate to the kind of sharing possible today. As we know from Wikipedia, post-hoc peer review can support astonishing creations of shared value. As we know from the search for Mersenne Primes, whole branches of mathematical exploration are now best taken [...]

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Laments, Forecasts, and Logic

January 12, 2010 – 6:59 am

Over the past several weeks I’ve been watching Journalism, the Humanities, and the Marketplace wonder about itself. We have Tiger Woods to watch and now a variety of gripes about the Edwards’ and “what was really going on.” The news this morning is a round table expressing justifications for the story. Nothing [...]

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Can Hypertext Narrative Translate?

January 5, 2010 – 7:22 pm

Stacey Mason at HTLit asks an interesting question:
And then it occurred to me: Perhaps for the first time, we’re moving into narrative media that are not backwards-compatible. The written word can be spoken, the printed word written, movies can be translated to books, but games and hypertext narrative don’t go backwards.
I disagree but on nuanced [...]

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Microprograms and micro fiction: See “Two or love”

January 5, 2010 – 6:55 pm

Via Nick Montfort, we have Pall Thayer’s Microcodes, a wonderful presentation of micro programs. My favorite is Two of love:
}else{
sleep(22) && print “fun”;
}
Question: is Thayer’s work compatible with micro fiction or short poetry on the literary side. Intense. I love it

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On Digital Vision

December 4, 2009 – 12:47 pm

Physorg on the question of computer vision:
“Reverse engineering a biological visual system—a system with hundreds of millions of processing units—and building an artificial system that works the same way is a daunting task,” says Cox. “It is not enough to simply assemble together a huge amount of computing power. We have to figure out how [...]

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Daugherty On Schools, Computers, and Papert

December 3, 2009 – 8:49 pm

Dale Daugherty at O’Reilly writes,
On this same day, I heard from a physics teacher in California that he can’t access the Makezine.com site. He was trying to download a project plan for the Wooden Mini Yacht in Volume 20 of Make to use in his class. His school district uses software to block access to [...]

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The Moon in Poetry (and Code)

November 13, 2009 – 6:07 am

I was particularly taken by the poetry of Li Po and Du Fu after a recent discussion with the World Literature students. There’s something about “talking it out.” I’ve been involved in reading Chinese poetry over the last few years in an effort to see and hear better. The study of these [...]

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eLit Camp

November 9, 2009 – 8:48 pm

Come to eLit Camp. It’s going to be very cool.
E-Lit Camp is an informal weekend gathering for writers, artists, and programmers currently involved or interested in electronic literature. Work on your projects, give a presentation, collaborate, and learn from others.
If you’re a writer, artist, journalist, coder, or some combination of the above, E-Lit camp [...]

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On Sleep No More

October 24, 2009 – 7:33 pm

Mark Bernstein on Sleep No More:
This was extraordinary theater, an unforgettable penetration of the fourth wall. It is also extraordinarily difficult. It’s not improv: the story, it turns out, is scene 21 of Woyzeck. You’re acting across from a stranger. A different stranger every night. In a closed room. The rules are unclear, we’ve just [...]

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Infamous and Ethics

July 27, 2009 – 7:40 am

Infamous was an interesting game. My son and I played through it over the last couple of weeks. A couple of quick ideas:
1. There’s no gore but the game does go for grit.
2. The game play is pretty tame though the combat can be psychologically relentless.
Gameplay in Infamous is driven by [...]

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Mind Mapping

July 14, 2009 – 8:46 am

Via Seed:
Picture this: the whole of human knowledge as a figurative mind that can selectively focus on certain areas. It’s a profound notion, and visualizing such a construct is an enormous undertaking. But with last week’s release of a new “map of science,” a team of researchers led by Johan Bollen is attempting to do [...]

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Digital Ecology

June 27, 2009 – 1:47 pm

The notion of digital ecology seems a mess. It seems more simple than the complication of “virtual.” Digital tools and data pervade the environment and they’re works in progress, unfinished apparatus.
Digital ecology appears to suggest perpetual critical questions. How should we publish? How should we share? How should we interact? [...]

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