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David Martin

Current Population Survey (CPS) Internet Use 2009 | NTIA - 1 views

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      Another site where you can get your hands of Internet use, digital literacy, and broadband access data.
Forrest Rule

Audio Transcription Service: Fast, Accurate, & Mobile | TranscribeMe - 0 views

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    This is a paid service.
Forrest Rule

If you are using R and you think you're in hell, this is a map for you. - 0 views

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    Intermediate-level R resource as an adaptation of Dante's Inferno.
John Fenn

What is a research platform? Mapping methods, mobilities and subjectivities - 3 views

  • his article provides an account of the question of method as it relates to collective modes of research organised,
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    ABSTRACT: This article provides an account of the question of method as it relates to collective modes of research organised, conceived and produced through the interplay between digital technologies of communication and offline strategies of investigation. It does so by exploring the orchestration of research platforms, which are mediating devices that constitute the production of knowledge across a range of geocultural settings. In the context of a project entitled Transit Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders, the article maintains that research methods must contend with the ideological, technological and economic instruments that condition knowledge production at the current conjuncture. The platform, we argue, operates as a medium through which research, labour, subjectivity and knowledge are shaped in ways specific to hardware settings, software dynamics and the materialities of labour and life.
Aylie B

ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE INITIATIVE - 0 views

shared by Aylie B on 10 Apr 14 - No Cached
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    Marko Pelijhan is an incredible digital artist, a lot of his work comments on surveillance. This project is a cool collaboration with North and Arctic Peoples and climate scientists - and brings up some important questions for me around open authoring and traditional ecological knowledge, how might platforms like this incorporate the necessary feedback loops or knowledge-ownership protocols of a particular person/group. How do you protect the sacred in the digital sphere? "The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations, founded by Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman, whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region. Its aim is to work with, learn from, and empower the North and Arctic Peoples through open source technologies and applied education and training. By creating access to these technologies while promoting the creation of shared communications and data networks without costly overheads, continued and sustainable development of autonomous culture, traditional knowledge, science, technology and education opportunities for peoples in the North and Arctic regions is enabled."
Julianne Meyer

Legend-tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat - Michael Ki... - 1 views

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    This is a book that I have read through in my previous attempts to approach the online-life of legends and ghost narratives. I found it really helpful to see how Kinsella approached the online community, and perhaps this might help some of you to read through some of his ideas. 
flrdorothy

Hardcore Coddling: How Eleven Madison Park Modernized Elite, Old-School Service -- Grub... - 0 views

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    An upscale restaurant that both demands rigorous formal training in dining service, and googles customers to scoop demographic data and give them a deeply personalized experience.
John Fenn

What is Netnography - 3 views

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    I found this short slide show useful and informative because, as a newcomer to the concept of digital ethnography, it helped to contextualize and outline how ethnographic methods can be applied to online sources. It's pretty basic, but it's a good refresher/good place to start.
Jolene Fisher

anne frances wysocki * work - 2 views

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    I was looking back at this (really interesting) multimedia writing work by Anne Wysocki and noticed how many of the pieces required special players and ample download time/space - Flash Player, Shockwave Player, 1.5 MB of download space - which got me thinking about platform/storage restrictions and digital accessibility. In many instances, a researcher may need not only specific digital skills/knowledge, but also specific platforms, players, software, memory space, etc. to conduct her work. And as players, platforms, software, etc. are upgraded, older digital texts may become less accessible. On that note, I have been taking screen shots of all of the scenes in the Facebook game I'm currently studying. Why? One reason is so I can put these screen shots into a presentation, but the more pressing reason is that another game I'm really interested in looking at (Food Force, a social media game from 2005 - so ancient, right?) is no longer accessible. In its place is a Facebook page with a big bandaged thumb and a "Sorry! This page has been removed." message. An ethnography conducted in a digital space, it seems, requires just as much "recording" as one in an offline space.
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    I think it is a great question to ask where will all the digital information go once it becomes out of date> I was working with a program called Scalar last term (a very useful tool) which allows you to show information in different ways. It was built for use in the Digital Humanities. One of its fatal flaws, in my opinion, is that it relies primarily on links to information, images, and video out in cyber space. If you build a project around this, there is no guarantee that the information will be available for any length of time and then what do you do? I think this is an issue more and more as new software updates and the old information can either not be found or is no longer accessible.
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    The life and preservation of the digital world is a huge question, and one that I don't think enough people are considering. I see more and more of my friends taking all their photos with smartphones and loading them to Instagram or Facebook, or worse never moving them beyond their phones. I wonder what photos will have survived in 20 years when their children are looking to make wedding or anniversary slide shows, or simply becoming interested in their own pasts. There are no hard copies of these images, and while hard copies are vulnerable, so are digital copies for a number of reasons.
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    great points in this discussion, especially around issues of "access"...which range from having the "right" tech to get into a site to ADA regulations/requirements. Also, preservation is a complicated facet of access and one worth discussing seriously in this course as we think about digital data.
Kyle McDaniel

Digital Ethnographic Videos on YouTube - 1 views

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    This is fascinating. A Kansas State professor encouraged his students to create individual YouTube videos (of themselves) in order to generate different types of creative, self-reflexive, and personal digital "ethnographies." Scroll down the webpage to view individual videos or visit the class's group page on YouTube.
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    This project by Michael Wesch has been going for some time and earned him much attention/respect. Check his bio here: http://mediatedcultures.net/michael-wesch/
mikecorr

BAO for Smartphones and Tablets | Extend Your Market Analysis to the iPhone and iPad - 1 views

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    For those who may want to gather some quick demographics about an area in the U.S., BAO a free App from ESRI is very useful. Below are some of the features the App offers. Use on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. Get up-to-date facts, using the latest Esri Data, about prospective customers (e.g., age, income, education, home ownership, lifestyle, and spending habits). Compare one address against another or against the county, state or US. Analyze an area within one-mile of your location. Instantly determine if a location fits your needs with Smart Map. Share your facts with others via e-mail.
Jenny Dean

Portraits of Reconciliation - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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    Definitely a must view. It is an amazing piece of work."Last month, the photographer Pieter Hugo went to southern Rwanda, two decades after nearly a million people were killed during the country's genocide, and captured a series of unlikely, almost unthinkable tableaus."
Kyle McDaniel

From DVD to Digital "Movie" - 3 views

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    Just testing diigo, but thought this service provided by WalMart(!) was interesting.
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    Nothing better than Walmart trying to control the media world :)
Jenny Dean

What will social media's giants look like in 5 or 10 years? - Fortune Tech - 4 views

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    An interesting look at Facebook, Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn considering where these each will be 5 years from now and 10 years from now.
Jenny Dean

Algorithms are Not Enough: Lessons Bringing Computer Science to Journalism | Digital Hu... - 3 views

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    "The computer science research community is going full speed ahead developing exciting new algorithms, but it seems a bit disconnected from what it takes to get their work used."
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    I thought this article is interesting, basically you need to understand more than just computer science to develop a program that is usable to a particular group.
John Fenn

The battle for 'Trayvon Martin': Mapping a media controversy online and off-line | Grae... - 6 views

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    I think this article is really spot on in providing an important model for empirically studying and representing the spread of ideas (or controversies) between media and how participatory and professional media influence one another. The fact that this article is written as much for academics as for activists is also exciting (and scary) to me, as a means of thinking about agenda-setting and influence. How might access to these tools help activist campaigns, and how might they swing back to challenge them? How can you really measure effect? "Even when we are able to access the data we need for analysis, interpretation is complicated by the specificity of individualized media experiences, where we've each curated our own individualized lists of sources on platforms like Twitter and Facebook. This can leave us with very different understandings of the day's news. Is it possible to speak meaningfully about a media agenda when agendas are set by individuals following a combination of friends and professional sources they've chosen to meet personal preferences and needs?"
John Fenn

Flashback: Warren Zevon Says Goodbye on 'David Letterman' - Video | Rolling Stone - 6 views

  • Not long after finding out he had an inoperable form of lung cancer, Warren Zevon was booked on the Late Show With David Letterman as the only guest for the full hour. Letterman was a huge Zev
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      this is awesome
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