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Amazon.com: Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide: Henry Jenkins: Books - 0 views

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    How cultural transformations take place as media collide.
Ronda Wery

FriendFeed, Syphilis And The Perfection Of Online Mobs - 0 views

  • But we note two trends that suggest a bleak future: the increase in non-anonymous mob participation and the evolution of online services towards ever more efficient and real time communication platforms that facilitate mob creation and growth like never before. Things are changing online way too fast for society and culture to adapt. Something will eventually break. I’m going to pick on FriendFeed in this post because I believe it is the nearest thing to Shangri-La for mob justice enthusiasts.
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    But we note two trends that suggest a bleak future: the increase in non-anonymous mob participation and the evolution of online services towards ever more efficient and real time communication platforms that facilitate mob creation and growth like never before. Things are changing online way too fast for society and culture to adapt. Something will eventually break. I'm going to pick on FriendFeed in this post because I believe it is the nearest thing to Shangri-La for mob justice enthusiasts.
Ronda Wery

Party Animals: Early Human Culture Thrived in Crowds | LiveScience - 0 views

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    Party planners know that scrunching a bunch of people into a small space will result in plenty of mingling and discourse.\n\nA new study suggests this was as true for our ancestors as it is for us today, and that ancient social networking led to a renaissance of new ideas that helped make us human.\n\nThe research, which is published in the June 5 issue of the journal Science, suggests that tens of thousands of years ago, as human population density increased so did the transmission of ideas and skills. The result: the emergence of more and more clever innovations.\n\n
Ronda Wery

YouTube - JOMC449 Course Description - 0 views

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    Course description for JOMC 449 - Virtual Communities, Smart Mobs, Citizen Journalism and Participatory Culture\nFall 2009 MW 3:30 - 4:45\nUNC Chapel Hill\nInstructor: Paul Jones\n\nYes, I am goofing quite a bit throughout, but the content is serious as the course will be.
Ronda Wery

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Designing Choreographies for the New Economy of Atte... - 0 views

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    The nature of the academic lecture has changed with the introduction of wi-fi and cellular technologies. Interacting with personal screens during a lecture or other live event has become commonplace and, as a result, the economy of attention that defines these situations has changed. Is it possible to pay attention when sending a text message or surfing the web? For that matter, does distraction always detract from the learning that takes place in these environments? In this article, we ask questions concerning the texture and shape of this emerging economy of attention. We do not take a position on the efficiency of new technologies for delivering educational content or their efficacy of competing for users' time and attention. Instead, we argue that the emerging social media provide new methods for choreographing attention in line with the performative conventions of any given situation. Rather than banning laptops and phones from the lecture hall and the classroom, we aim to ask what precisely they have on offer for these settings understood as performative sites, as well as for a culture that equates individual attentional behavior with intellectual and moral aptitude.
Ronda Wery

Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I : Columbia Journalism Review - 0 views

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    Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I "There's always a new Luddism whenever there's change."
Chris Andrews

"Our Cultural Commonwealth" The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Com... - 0 views

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    Points out many of they key issues faced by humanities and social science scholars as we enter the 21st century.
Ronda Wery

The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules - 0 views

  • After two years of number-crunching in his cluttered office at UC San Diego, Hirsch had it—an invention important enough to warrant publication in the (very prestigious) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In his 2005 article, Hirsch introduced the h-index (named after himself, of course). The key was focusing not on where you published but on how many times other researchers cited your work. In practice, you take all the papers you've published and rank them by how many times each has been cited. Say paper number one has been cited 10,000 times. Paper number two, 8,000 cites. Paper number 32 has 33 citations, but number 33 has received just 28. You've published 32 papers with more than 32 citations—your h-index is 32. Or to put it more technically, the h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist.
  • The Web of Knowledge now comprises 700 million cited references from 23,000 journals published since 1804. It's used by 20 million researchers in nearly 100 countries. Anyone—scientist, dean, lab director—can sort the entries and tell someone's fortune. Nothing approaches it for breadth and longevity. Though the Journal Impact Factor has competitors, it remains the gold standard. "You may not like the database, but it has not been replaced," Garfield says.
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    After two years of number-crunching in his cluttered office at UC San Diego, Hirsch had it-an invention important enough to warrant publication in the (very prestigious) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In his 2005 article, Hirsch introduced the h-index (named after himself, of course). The key was focusing not on where you published but on how many times other researchers cited your work. In practice, you take all the papers you've published and rank them by how many times each has been cited. Say paper number one has been cited 10,000 times. Paper number two, 8,000 cites. Paper number 32 has 33 citations, but number 33 has received just 28. You've published 32 papers with more than 32 citations-your h-index is 32. Or to put it more technically, the h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist.
Chris Andrews

News: 'Scholarship in the Digital Age' - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • Taken together, this environment offers a wealth of opportunities for new kinds of data-and information-intensive, distributed, collaborative, interdisciplinary scholarship.
  • it doesn’t shift quickly.
  • tenure system is a much stronger driver of scholarly infrastructure than is technology
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  • cholars have been complaining about too many books and journals since Francis Bacon’s (1561-1626) day
  • “control” is more the issue than is “ownership.”
  • open access repository.
  • support both collaborative and independent
  • ccess to information resources and to the tools to use them
  • ability to use their own research data and that of others to ask new questions and to visualize and model their data in new ways
  • ew ways to explore and explain culture – and to mine all those books being digitized by Google, Open Content Alliance, and other international project
  • sustainable
  • Open access
Ronda Wery

JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1 - 0 views

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    Special Theme: Social Network Sites
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