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Sven A. Miller

Johanna Blakley: Social media and the end of gender | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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  • Sven A. Miller on 02 Feb 11
     
    Media and advertising companies still use the same old demographics to understand audiences, but they're becoming increasingly harder to track online, says media researcher Johanna Blakley. As social media outgrows traditional media, and women users outnumber men, Blakley explains what changes are in store for the future of media.
  • Sven A. Miller on 02 Feb 11
     
    About TASTE COMMUNITIES - in contrast to "(…) genre categories that assume that certain demographic groups like certain things… that 'hispanics' like certain things, that 'young' people like certain things, … This is far too simplistic!"
  • Sarah Moser on 02 Feb 12
     
    This is a really interesting video. Thanks for sharing. I like the very end of Blakley's talk when she mentions that the future development of media and advertisement companies will be based on understanding and working WITH the people's interests and tastes, rather than continuing to work on stereotypes and demographics, which are no longer valid, or maybe they have never actually been?!
Cecile Dupire

The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate GlobalizationMovements - 1 views

www.jstor.org/25046069

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  • Cecile Dupire on 02 Dec 10
     
    As I mentioned during the class, I read this article to know media are embodied within activist group, or by their opponant i.e. gouvernments, polices... But what is interesting in this article is to analyze how new media had an impact in the transformation of activist groups, such as for example going from being more local to becoming global. Interesting article when it comes to see how people are in practice interacting with these media.
  • anola brace on 09 Jan 11
     
    I agree with Cecile that, this article shows very good results of the interaction of social action with social media tools. The use of social media tools have a greater and faster impact to the society. The information about what is happening around you about a lot of injustice is spreading so quickly. I want to give a very recently example. And International organization was posting via email, fb, you tube concerning a cause in South Africa. They got the signature for this petition in very short time and the reaction of the government very soon and everyone is informed about the future actions to help this cause. It´s amazing when you think how quickly can happen, and imagine if these tools didn´t exist, most probably we will not even know what is happening around us.
Lucas Eaton

Rehberg, Tester embrace social media tools - 1 views

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  • Lucas Eaton on 13 Dec 10
     
    Even in Montana social media has become important. It's true it is "en train de changer" the way politics is run. In a place with so few people, each person could really have a direct line to candidates and I suppose a more direct dialogue with the people is much easier. However, as the article states, could this lead to a more polarizing political field--meaning only strong supporters of a candidate would follow them through social media, and thus the candidate is really only talking to people on one even extreme side? Is social media used in politics in Luxembourg? It could have a strong impact here, seeing as how there are even half as many people in this country as in Montana! Oh and off the subject, Montana is so small. The senator Baucus referred to in the article bought my grandpa's car from us after he died.
evgenia gouvedari

The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker - 2 views

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  • The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker
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      evgenia gouvedari on 04 Mar 11
       
      Digital media have transformed ethnographic research and this is reflected in the diversity of the new terms that are proposed in order to capture this transformation: " Media Ethnography", "Virtual Ethnography", "Network Ethnography", "Hyper-media Ethnography", etc.The ethnographic method has changed in many ways:first, the process of ethnographic research has changed as researchers use the media as tools for their research and this affects their positionalities in relation to the subjects of their research. Second, ethnography has become multi-sited and the constitution of the site of research is not considered pre-given but is part of the analysis. Social space becomes primary over physical space, while at the same time the materiality of the digital objects becomes central.Researchers have to think how notions such as "fieldwork" and "participant observation" make sense in a networked world and how new social formations are constituted. New concepts such as co-presence substitute traditional concepts of co-location. There are many researchers who problematise and retheorise the ethnographic method. The article I am posting really goes deep into this kind of problematic by analyzing the emergence of global poker across on- and offline practices through traditional and new media. It shows how the multiple sites of global poker are co-configured through the assembling of actors, practices and technologies. What I found interesting was the term "Para-Ethnography"; the term "para-ethnographer" refers to the expert players that give extremely detailed accounts of playing action through blogging or other media.
Sven A. Miller

Ten tips for using social media in school communications | Best Practices News | eSchoo... - 3 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...media-in-school-communications

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  • Sven A. Miller on 12 Jul 11
     
    With social media networks ubiquitous in American life, it's time to shift the debate from whether it's a good idea for educators to use this new medium to how to use it wisely and well. Here are 10 tips to help get you started in social media for school communications.
Cecile Dupire

Psychological Predictors of Media Involvement : Solitude Experiences and the Need to Be... - 0 views

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  • Cecile Dupire on 27 Nov 10
     
    First of all, to understand what this article is about, we need to ask ourselves the question: What is parasocial interaction (PSI)? It is the relation that individual makes with media persona (TV characters from TV shows, TV programs…). 'This present study examines how specific social and emotional tendencies (i.e. belongingness needs and solitude experiences) are related to specific social and emotional forms of media involvement, namely, PSI with media characters and transportability into media programs'. Specific social and emotional tendencies can be seen a negative experiences as well as positive experiences (i.e. being alone can increase creativity in art, philosophy, or else). After reading this article, I asked myself: is engaging in a parasocial interaction a consequence or a cause of these social and emotional tendencies? I think this article is talking about an interesting concept that is growing more and more with the evolution of technology and it shows the shift occurring when coming to define what is interaction.
Sven A. Miller

Tunisia: A media led revolution? - 1 views

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  • Sven A. Miller on 17 Jan 11
     
    The internet in this case has assumed the role of a very effective uncensored news agency from which every broadcaster and news corporation have been able to freely source newsfeeds, raw from the scene.
  • Lucas Eaton on 18 Jan 11
     
    Interesting! This makes me wonder if government-controlled media is an idea that will disappear in the coming years as social media grows. It might just become archaic and completely incompatible with the world situation. I feel like governments can only have so much power in this and as the world becomes even more connected, perhaps other countries will have similar revolutions. Iran? China?...even North Korea? (I think that one might take a long while though. They are pretty isolated).
anola brace

Digital citizenship - 1 views

www.flatclassroomproject.org/...DigitalCitizenship_Mar2010.pdf

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  • anola brace on 22 Dec 10
     
    I would like to share with you this new project that gives light a new dimension to education using the social media as tool to increase the interaction between teacher and students. The Flat Classroom Project is an innovative approach where educators have built social-networking sites specifically for use in class and home assignments. This project allows communication for students in the classroom, but for them to interact with students in far away classrooms all around the world can reach and learn from each other. A recent survey (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx) from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 73 percent of online teens use social-networking sites. Updating their Facebook or MySpace page has become a regular activity for teens as is using these services to catch up on what their peers are doing. Using similar tools will encourage students to interact with each other, using many of the same techniques they do when away from school but focused on their educational goals. Hope for someone will be useful
  • Cecile Dupire on 10 Jan 11
     
    Its is very interesting to see that new technologies are more and more taking part of the class as being a tool like any other ones. It is very important to let them get in the class and not leave them out as new media and new technologies are used on a everyday basis by most of the students. One of the most important point of this article to make sure that the use of tools should be customized depending on the students. It is also in my opinion that the more customized the process of learning is, the better will be the learning. Customizing a class lead to a better motivation for the students and so lead to a better learning and more important remembering of what is done during the class. Moreover, I agree with the authors when saying that new technologies should be used and learned from the very beginning of school. As I said, new technologies should not be let outside of the school as it takes a great part of our lifes nowadays. And the earliest it is learnt, the better the students will know how to use them to make them as most efficient in their lifes (private ones, during their studies, careers...) as possible. It is said in the article that this project is used in different countries. However, besides Spain, the rest of them are english speaking countries. How could this project be developed in order to touch more and more countries? Or could it be used during english classes in other countries than the one mentionned?
Miriam Martinez

Innovative technologies for multicultural education needs - 0 views

www.cise.ufl.edu/...ferdig-metj2007.pdf

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  • Miriam Martinez on 12 Nov 12
     
    I found this interesting article that look at divers types of technologies apply in multicultural education context.. I hope someone find it useful! I copied here the abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss several technology applications that are being used to address current problems or opportunities related to multicultural education. Five technology applications or technology-related projects are discussed, including a teacher education literacy tool, social networking communities, massive multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs), virtual patients, and an International Leadership in Educational Technology (ILET) consortium. Research and practical implications of this paper include the introduction of new technologies for improving multicultural education, research findings on the use of these tools, and potential opportunities or pitfalls as such tools are implemented and evaluated. The paper concludes with a call for new research in the area of technologies for multicultural education.
anola brace

Viva VoiceThread: Integrating a Web 2.0 in the Additional Language Classroom - 2 views

www.editlib.org/31146

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  • anola brace on 23 Dec 10
     
    This article shows how the language learning process is integrated with the technology. Different social media tools create different interactive possibilities to improve the language skills of the students. This article emphasises the use of voicethread as a tool of Web 2.0 that combine different methods in itself that allows students to use their creativity and skills. I have already use voice thread the last year during the class of Telecolloboration. It´s very interesting for the ones that didn´t take this class and also for others that want to integrate different social media tools into education.
Miriam Martinez

Walkthrough: videogames and technocultural form - 3 views

www.badnewthings.co.uk/...Walkthrough.pdf

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  • Miriam Martinez on 06 Mar 11
     
    For those who are interested in videogames, is a microethnography and cybertextual analysis that articulates the everyday context of a smallscale event of videogame play. This event is studied as the collusion (the coming together in play), of a heterogeneous network of human and nonhuman part(icipant)s: the conventions, rules and prescriptions of games software; children's embodied knowledges, pleasures, anxieties, imaginations; play practices and rules; screen media images and characters; and the inaesthetics and virtual physics of videogameworlds.
  • evgenia gouvedari on 08 Mar 11
     
    I think the thesis posted by Miriam is good reading for everyone who is interested in how micro-ethnography is being transformed through the digital media and not just for those interested in video games. What I liked is this idea of non-human agency that is taken from Latour; we also saw it in Professor Portante's literacy studies in relation to the agency of texts. In the case of videogames the agency of the material actors is an integral part of the study and not just an additional, secondary factor that influences the agency of the human actors. According to Latour's irreducibility principle nothing -either human or non-human- is reducible to anything else.
Cecile Dupire

Cyber-teaching in the Oral History Classroom - 0 views

www.jstor.org/40179663

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  • Cecile Dupire on 27 Nov 10
     
    This article retraces the use of new media and new technologies in a class of Oral History. It shows that by using those new tools, it enhanced learning through a more interactive, participative and collaborative way. During the Oral History Class, the students were engaged in a collaborative project aimed at giving the "opportunity to play an action-research and community service role". The use of new media and technologies were used in class (using computers) as well as outside the classroom. For this project a "Class folder" was created where students and teacher could put their work as well as knowing about the assignment or the advancement of the project. This "Class folder" developed a conceptualization of "centralization" of the work: the access was free, any time and it was for the student a good way to share their ideas, comments and work. It also enhanced the "decentralization of knowledge": the students were more autonomous and the teacher became a "facilitator rather than a singular authority in the classroom".
Simina Petraru

E-learning in creative careers - 0 views

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  • Simina Petraru on 27 Nov 10
     
    More and more universities around the world provide online, e-learning programs that enable the long distance education to interested individuals. The website that I propose is one of my favorite options in terms of creative education related to arts, performing, liberal, media and communication arts. The SCAD eLearning environment encompasses an online global community, where students learn from SCAD faculty and one another, participating in critiques, meetings and collaborative projects. Students complete undergraduate and graduate degree requirements completely online or in combination with on-site courses. SCAD eLearning provides comprehensive university services including career coaching, research workshops, counseling services, SCAD libraries, and resources such as the Virtual Lecture Hall, SCAD.tv, and the Visual Resources Center. Recipient of numerous awards, SCAD eLearning has been recognized for its outstanding and comprehensive online learning curriculum. Vigorous, well-designed coursework, combined with exceptional instruction, ensures a world-class online education. Enjoy!
Diana Alves

Using a touch screen computer to support relationships between people with dementia and... - 1 views

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  • Diana Alves on 11 Jan 11
     
    Interacting with media: not only funny, but also extremely useful. This article explores the reality of people with dementia, who are not always able to communicate and to interact with their caregivers. Thus, the authors evaluate an interactive touch screen (named CIRCA) that allows this communication and interaction between them. I won't tell you the results (so that if you're interested... you read the article :), but CIRCA has several applications. which aim to stimulate the memory of people with dementia... and it kinda works out well... :) It is pretty amazing. Great to see people interacting with media with useful objectives.
  • Diana Alves on 11 Jan 11
Miriam Martinez

Embodied Child. Computer Interaction. Why embodiment matters - 1 views

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  • Miriam Martinez on 10 Jan 11
     
    This is the article that we just presented during our last class, Just to refresh your mind, the author present the interaction of children with media tools. Understanding the concept of "Embodiment means how the nature of a living entity's cognition is shaped by the form of its physical manifestation in the world" As we saw the theory is basis in the believe that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body. Then, Dividing the cognition then in Spatial, Physical and finally Metaphorical. Moreover the Embodied Child were analysed by the interaction with the computer, categorizing in Input design, interface design and interaction design.
Sven A. Miller

Interacting Naturally in Virtual Environments - 1 views

ntsa.metapress.com/...contribution.asp

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  • Sven A. Miller on 27 Nov 10
     
    Current methods for controlling one's avatar in a virtual environment interacting with intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are unnatural, typically requiring a complex set of keyboard commands for controlling your avatar, and dialog menus for interacting with IVAs. Recent advances in markerless body and motion tracking, speech and gesture recognition technologies, coupled with intelligent agent/behavior modeling and speech synthesis technologies, now make it possible to naturally control one's avatar through the movement of one's body and to interact with IVAs through speech and gesture. These capabilities are now just beginning to emerge in the arena of computer gaming, and offer great promise for military training. In this paper we describe our recent work integrating motion capture, gesture recognition, speech recognition, natural language understanding, and intelligent agent/behavior modeling technologies to produce more natural mechanisms for avatar control as well as IVAs that are able to understand relatively unconstrained speech and recognize human movement and gesture. We illustrate these capabilities within the domain of roadside security checkpoint training, where trainees are able to gesture (e.g., wave forward, stop, point to a location) and speak to IVAs (drivers and passengers) in the scene.
  • Sven A. Miller on 27 Nov 10
     
    This shall be one of our main inspiration within the framework of our experiment for LEARNING WITH MEDIA, during which we performed a session of "Start the Party" for "Playstation Move" on the Playstation 3, in comparison to our previous experiment with "Wii Sports"…
Sven A. Miller

Moodle vs. Facebook: Does using Facebook for Discussions in an Online Course Enhance Pe... - 5 views

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  • Sven A. Miller on 27 Nov 10
     
    In this study, we investigated the effect of using the social network site Facebook for discussions in an online course. Data were collected from concurrent offerings of an introductory educational psychology course, one using Facebook discussion boards and the other Moodle forums. We measured student perceptions of social presence and the frequency and length of their discussion interactions. Evaluation of this data indicated that there were no differences in our measures. We discuss why the potential benefits of Facebook for online teaching may not have emerged in this study and provide suggestions for further research in this area.
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  • Sven A. Miller on 27 Nov 10
     
    Through an experiment we are performing in Prof. Caire's class, we tried to find a comparative study of MOODLE vs. Facebook in an academic context; and this is the only article we found, that treats this specific issue…
  • Lucas Eaton on 29 Nov 10
     
    While using Facebook for coursework and school discussions seems odd to us at the moment and is a point of debate, I think as it becomes more and more a part of our culture, using it in education will be unavoidable. I think it's possible that within a few years Facebook will be such an integral part of everyone's life that it will eventually be natural and logical to use it for school. Kids won't know a world without facebook! Now it's still new and fresh and we don't quite know how to handle it, but over time it may become a simple digital manifestation of the totality of our lives.
  • anola brace on 23 Dec 10
     
    Very interesting article. After getting used with very traditional methods, it´s a little bit difficult to use these tools and to adapt with them. Especially when we use them in a different context that is not education one. In the beginning of Master class I remember that was hard to get use with moodle or other tools that we learnt. I agree with Lucas that in the nearly future will be so normal to use them. But my concern (we have already discuss in one of our presentation) is that not all the children/ students have the chance/ possibility to use these tools and we will create a huge gap in the education.
  • Diana Alves on 11 Jan 11
     
    I agree with Lucas. It is still kind of difficult to deal with it, but it will become natural. However it does not sound odd to me. Not at all. It is simply a question of time. The same happened with the Email taking over the traditional "sending letters ritual". It is the natural course of technology! :) As far as I am concerned it can work out pretty well. We have the example of moodle within our master and I also have already the experience with facebook for school discussions (within my german course). One of my friends, who is TOTALLY addicted to facebook, was telling us the other day that she spends so much time on facebook that she gets now the feeling that she is "outdated" when it comes to news. And we told her to join/add one newspaper (or so), which has a facebook page. Like this she would get the information anyway. It is a good point also valid for education. Why not to "combine business with pleasure"? It is not only usefull, but it can also be a motivator for the students.
  • Sarah Moser on 02 Feb 12
     
    one year later... :) it is interesting to see how facebook and its use actually changed during this year. For our Media class with Charles Max we made a little research on whether the students from the Master program use the Socializing Forum of the Moodle platform or not and why. While one year ago the Moodle platform was the main space where students shared and discussed ideas about academic topics and issues, this year it turned out that the students prefer to communicate and discuss things through facebook rather than on Moodle. Facebook seems to become an easy and handy way to communicate and exchange ideas not only on a personal level but also for academic reasons.
Sven A. Miller

PlayStation Move headed to PCs under official 'Move Server' project -- Engadget - 1 views

www.engadget.com/...nder-official-move-server-proj

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  • Sven A. Miller on 02 Feb 11
     
    According to the synopsis, John McCutchan, SCEA's lead for Game Systems and Developer Support, will be on hand to discuss the "Move Server project that will make it possible for academics and hobbyists to develop software using the PlayStation Move controller on their own PCs.
  • Sven A. Miller on 02 Feb 11
     
    As our project was based on analysing our interaction with the tv through the tool that is Playstation Move, I think the info, that further research might be driven by connecting it to a PC or a Mac is quite interesting! :O)
Miriam Martinez

LUXEMBOURG IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS IN ARGENTINA 1880 - 1940 - 0 views

www.cdmh.lu/...6282332303.pdf

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  • Miriam Martinez on 20 Feb 11
     
    I just discover that From 1888 to 1890, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was literally overwhelmed by a transatlantic migration wave, the so-called Argentinienfieber - an expression which could be translated into English by Argentine fever. In less than two years, more than one thousand Luxembourgers - representing 0.5 per cent of the entire population - decided to emigrate to Argentina.
  • Charles MAX on 03 Mar 11
     
    HI Myriam can you explain me how this post is related to the "interacting with media and technology" topic of the entire folder
  • Miriam Martinez on 06 Mar 11
     
    Sorry, wrong folder. It still interested! :)
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