introduction to scholarly multimedia holly willis november 18, 2008

what is scholarly multimedia? what are its modes? what does it allow?

research writing presenting publishing increased connectivity access to vast amounts of information tools that facilitate collaboration cross-disciplinarity shift in expertise age of print –> regime of computation NOT about same practices with new tools! (from Kate Hayles talk, CST, 2008) + computer cyberinfrastructure =

modes: telling using the elements of storytelling creates desire to know may spark identification

modes: telling using the elements of storytelling creates desire to know may spark identification what’s “new” about it? adding the algorithm… adding the reader as creator…

Sharon Daniel and Erik Loyer | Public Secrets

Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar We Feel Fine | 2005

Alex Dragulescu What I Did Last Summer | 2006

Jonathan Harris | The Whale Hunt | 2008

modes: mapping and visualization mapping: representing a region visualization: “a tool or method for interpreting image data fed into a computer and for generating images from complex multi-dimensional data sets.”

mapping: representing a region

visualization: “a tool or method for interpreting image data fed into a computer and for generating images from complex multi-dimensional data sets.”

Map of the London Underground Henry Beck, 1933

Mindmapping - used to brainstorm, organize and visualize ideas - combines text and images - hand-drawn or digital - software tools include VUE, Freemind and OmniGraffle

Charles Schulz map, by Austin Kleon

Joy Division map, by Austin Kleon

Quiet Mind map

Displaying Information - gathers and displays information graphically - uses size, color and placement to indicate significance - can be static, but is often dynamic

NameVoyager Laura and Martin Wattenberg

Map of the Internet, University of Birmingham Blue: net; ca; us Purple: de; uk; it; pl; fr Green: com; org Aqua: br; kr; nl Red: mil; gov; edu Yellow: jp; cn; tw; au

Displaying Data - gathers and displays data graphically - again, uses size, color and placement to indicate significance - and again, can be static, but is often dynamic

“ This Is Where We Live,” Time Magazine

Websites as Graphs

Icoro Doria: Angola, China, Colombia

Faces of the Dead in Iraq

Newsmap

Displaying Connections - gathers and displays data graphically - again, uses size, color and placement to indicate significance - and again, can be static, but is often dynamic

Did You Know? Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod

Preparedness Now Theo Angelopoulos | 2008

modes: gaming

The Free Culture Game | Molleindustria | 2008

Darfur Is Dying | Susana Ruiz | 2006

McDonald’s Video Game | Molleindustries | 2004

Disaffected! | Persuasive Games

modes: gaming: alternate reality games interactive, transmedia events shifts according to player participation and involvement -uses real time intersection of “reality” and the “alternate reality” See Wikipedia: -storytelling as archeology designing for the hive mind whisper is louder than a shout “ this is not a game” aesthetic real -not a hoax Why not use ARGs to solve real problems?

interactive, transmedia events

shifts according to player participation and involvement -uses real time

intersection of “reality” and the “alternate reality”

See Wikipedia: -storytelling as archeology

designing for the hive mind

whisper is louder than a shout

“ this is not a game” aesthetic

real -not a hoax

Why not use ARGs to solve real problems?

World Without Oil | Electric Shadows and PBS | 2008

Superstruct | Institute for the Future | 2008

modes: gaming: countergames modifying existing games to “counter” original intent -generally done in one of three ways: 1) at the level of visual design 2) rules of the game, changing how gameplay unfolds 3) at the level of software

modifying existing games to “counter” original intent

-generally done in one of three ways: 1) at the level of visual design

2) rules of the game, changing how gameplay unfolds

3) at the level of software

Adam Killer | Brody Condon | 2000 “ The player/performer navigates through a game level filled with multiple copies of the same character being ‘idle’ on a white plane. As the characters are mutilated with different weapons, an exploited glitch creates a harsh trailing effect. This turns the environment into a chaotic mess of bloody, fractured textures. Adam Killer is disseminated as a multi-channel video installation and DVD documentation of game play.”

Domestic Tension | Wafaa Bilal | 2007

Gandhi’s March and dead-in-iraq Joseph Delappe | 2007 - 2008

modes: immersive

Mode :: Immersive One of the key characteristics of new media - Tied to new ways of learning by doing - Positives: powerful, rich, sensorily intriguing Negatives: easy to go awry!

Mode :: Immersive

One of the key characteristics of new media

- Tied to new ways of learning by doing

- Positives: powerful, rich, sensorily intriguing

Negatives: easy to go awry!

Immersive: using MUVEs (Multi-User Virtual Environments) – Shared space: the world allows many users to participate at once. – A sense of immediacy: interaction takes place in real time. – Interactivity: the world allows users to alter, develop, build, or submit customized content. – Persistence: the world's existence continues regardless of whether individual users are logged in. – Socialization/Community: the world allows and encourages the formation of in-world social groups like teams, guilds, clubs, cliques, housemates, neighborhoods, etc. (from Virtual Worlds Review )

Melanie Swalwell and Erik Loyer Cast-offs From the Golden Age

Matt Lee | Rivenscryr

Second Life

mediagraphy - slide 2: Peter Cho, “letterscapes” http://www.typotopo.com/letterscapes/letterscapes.html - definition of visualization: “Visual Universe” site: http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/99invest.Site/VISUALIZATION/visualization.html#2