Category Archives: New Media

More on Devices

August 31, 2010 – 6:50 pm

Many semesters ago, even prior to the issues brought up in this post, I had one of my first encounters with the laptop and smart device as a tool for critical thinking and information literacy. In Composition II, we’d been talking in class about Connecticut’s brain drain subject and the thought occurred to me that [...]

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Emberlight: A Review

August 1, 2010 – 8:29 am

At Tunxis Community College we’re always looking for ways to provide students opportunity for challenge. In a course titled New Media Perspectives, the introductory course in Tunxis’s New Media Communication program, we employ Tinderbox, software developed by Eastgate Systems. This powerful software provides students flexible methods of visually illustrating relationships, physically linking ideas, and developing [...]

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Spring New Media Perspectives and Other Thoughts on Teaching

May 18, 2010 – 9:00 am

It’s always interesting after a course has run to think back through and consider content, method, and production. New Media Perspectives has seen several versions and we’re really just hitting our stride in the course. We cover several issues: 1. An overview of new media principles and examples we think are generalized and reflect digital [...]

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Godard, Bolaño, and Things in Between

May 4, 2010 – 7:30 pm

The past few years have seen different themes. Last year we were talking and studying jazz music and its relationship to issues of performance, creativity, history, hypertext, and new media. This semester, we’ve picked up a new or more elaborate theme: film, new media, hypertext, and performance: we’ve gone from Roberto Bolaño through to Anthony [...]

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New Media is Hard

April 5, 2010 – 4:58 pm

New Media is hard. New Media people (ideally) can express and understand ideas in symbolic language $(‘a’).hover(function() {$this.append( . . . )}); and |a horn | a plug | in a design framework, say a word processor, and interpret ideas in an expressive environment, say a billboard or a smart phone or a novel. The [...]

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The Future of Health Applications

April 4, 2010 – 6:16 pm

I had an interesting conversation with my med student daughter in law today. I proposed the question: what if your hospital had the opportunity to order everything it needed to meet the needs of everyone it serves? We wondered how much boost to economic ecology such an order would create. Twenty thousand jobs perhaps. We [...]

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Back to Multiplatform Publishing: Question for Writers and Developers

March 18, 2010 – 4:58 pm

One of the qualms of instruction is that often you must depart an ongoing project and return to it asking, “What was I doing? What had I planned?” This is why persistent weblog use is a good thing. (And Literary Arts journals. I thank Jesse Abbot for the use of that term in order to [...]

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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 interesting addition to [...]

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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 must tell the story [...]

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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, XML, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 about trivia. In [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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