multimedia and digital literacy ics 139w 08/29/11
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MULTIMEDIA AND DIGITAL LITERACY
ICS 139w
08/29/11
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Assignment grading• Bug in comments for Assignment 4
• Can talk to Dmitri (or myself) about scores
• Rewrites due Wednesday Midnight • (email directly to Joel)
• Other questions?
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Slide Peer Critiquing• Look over your partner’s slides and fill out the critique
worksheet• You do not have to give a full run of your presentation
• This is to check in and to get feedback on organization and aesthetics
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Media• Q: What is media?
• A: The plural of “medium”: the means for doing something• The channel used for communication• The material used for art• etc.
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Communication Media
What methods / channels did you use to talk to people since our last class?
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Communication Media• Face-to-Face• Phone
• Skype
• Email• Chat / Instant Message
• platform specific instances?
• Letters (“snail-mail”)• Video Chat• Actions• Other?
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Dimensions of a Medium• Richness
• “rate and quality” of information conveyed—the bandwidth• number of channels, language variety, feedback available
• Mass vs. individual
• Private vs. public
• Asynchronous vs. synchronous
• Recordable vs. ephemeral
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“Beyond Being There”• Hollan and Stornetta, 1992 (CHI)
“telecommunications research seems to work under the implicit assumption that there is a natural and perfect state -- being there -- and that our state is in some sense broken when we are not physically proximate”
Can we have a medium that is better than face-to-face?
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Multimedia• Using more than one medium in communication
• Text + Images + Audio + Video + etc.
• How does multimedia
improve communication?
• How does multimedia
worsen communication?
http://singgiiihwordpresscom.typepad.com/blog/
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Hypertext• Hyperlinking as a form of multimedia
• Simple, early form of multimedia• Embedding text in other text, rather than one medium in another
• Non-linear, interactive writing (c.f. PowerPoint)
• Contextualizes text
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Memex• Vannevar Bush, 1945, As We May Think
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Information vs. Communication
Memex positions computers as information storage systems, not as communication mediums
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=internet+information&word2=internet+communication
Consider:• What are computers good at?• What are people good at?
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Digital Literacy• “Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and
create information using digital technology.” (cornell.edu)
• Being able to use technology
• Navigate digital information stores• e.g., search the Internet and
find information
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-digital-literacies.html
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Why Digital Literacy?• What do we mean by “literacy”?
• Sci-Fi: Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (2006)• An economy based on analyzing data• “In almost all modern jobs, search and analysis are how we make
our living”• c.f.: Mechanical Turk
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Finding Information• Search engines
• The power of the key word• Guessing what other people have
written
• Appropriateness of resources
• Social Search
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Scavenger Hunt!• Work with a partner or individually
• Search for answers to questions on the Internet
• You will have 5 minutes – see how many you can answer!
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Scavenger Hunt Debrief• How well did you do?
• What questions were hard / easy? Why?
• What strategies worked well?
• (is this exercise at all interesting?)
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Information Reliability• Source of information?• Potential bias?
• Is information (or even Truth) socially constructed?• http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/72347/july-31-2006/the-w
ord---wikiality
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Contributing to the Knowledge Base• Internet: communally defined information store.
• Contribute to information storage to help others in the future• Ethical responsibility to teach and inform• Put your writing online!
• Benefits of collaborative writing (peer review)
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Wikipedia• One example of a knowledge base
• Reliability
• Search-ability
• Bias
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Edit Wikipedia!• Individually, look up one of your assignment topics in
Wikipedia. To to find: • An error• Something that isn’t clear• Something that needs clarification
• Make a change to improve the entry
• You are empowered to contribute to the public knowledge and to correct the mistakes of others.• You have permission to add your input to collective knowledge
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Conclusion• Language and writing is a social process
• Information is socially constructed
• Writing is not just essays—variety of communication mediums
• Value of written communication• Recordable, translatable, standard
• Goal: effective and efficient communication
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Homework• Prepare presentation for Wednesday!
• Turn in slides to EEE by Tuesday 5pm
• Assignments 4/5 rewrites due Wednesday Midnight• Email directly to Joel
• Can talk to us about scores on papers• Dmitri for Assignment 4• Joel for Assignment 5
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Evaluations• Take 5 minutes and fill out the EEE Evaluation
• What did you get out of this class?• What worked; what didn’t work?• What can I do to improve the class next year?
• (can also fill it out after class on Wednesday)