From Places to Connections

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1. Slide 1: Games, New Media and Democracy Seminar Bergen, 16-17 Oct, 2006 Fro m place s to co nne ctio ns Jill Walker / Dept of Humanistic Informatics / University of Bergen jill.walker@uib.no http://jilltxt.net (Image: http://web.archive.org/web/20030708194456/http://microdoc-news.info/blogger/2003/05/20.html)
2. Slide 2: Change s in o ur se nse o f ide ntity? Placebound Nation, place: The canonisation of Dutch history - “to improve the cohesion of Dutch society” (- Joost’s talk yesterday) Connection-oriented In flux, based on families, friendships, relationships, individuals, interests...
3. Slide 3: Fro m me tapho rs o f place to me tapho rs o f co nne ctio n
4. Slide 4: Initial idea of cyberspace -- ...a virtual space po pulate d by pro je ctio ns o f o ur re al se lve s.. (prosthetic selves?)
5. Slide 5: cybe rspace Cyberspace. A co nse nsual hallucinatio n experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic re pre se ntatio n o f data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the no nspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, re ce ding, (William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984, page 69). Image: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/topology.html
6. Slide 6: Info rmatio n architecture Navigate • Surf • Website • URL - uniform • resource location (Placebased way of thinking)
7. Slide 7: Me tapho rs o f the w e b web as SPACE > goal is max visitors { web as NETWORK > goal is max participation “web 2.0” web as PLATFORM > goal is to become indispensible, like an operating system See Dan Brown on this: http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2006/03/10/web-20-reframing-web-10/
8. Slide 8: Flickr
9. Slide 9: Wikipe dia
10. Slide 10: Mo re than half o f o nline te e ns are Co nte nt Te e n co nte nt cre ato rs Cre ato rs. Some 57% of online teens create content for the internet. • 33% of online teens share their own creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos. • 32% say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends or school assignments. • 22% report keeping their own personal webpage. • 19% have created their own online journal or blog. • About one in five internet-using teens (19%) says they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Content_Creation.pdf
11. Slide 11: Hits fo r traditio nal e ncyclo pe dia vs Wikipe dia http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/189/report_display.asp
12. Slide 12: Young use rs w rite the Wikipe dia. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/189/report_display.asp
13. Slide 13: Muse o -blo gging (muse um blo gging) Not just more marketing and publicity, but... …something mo re pe rso nal, so me thing that’s no t go ing be o n the o fficial w e bsite . Perhaps press/reviews regarding exhibitions from publications, reviews of staff, of programming and/or performance, curatorial insights, anecdotes about installation, execution, general thoughts, images, artist interviews that are included in current exhibitions, etc. Anything that supplements and rounds out the programming and, perhaps, includes the viewer. Blogs can make the possibilities of what an institution can do endless and with ease. (Caryn Coleman) (http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?p=5)
14. Slide 14: “o utside ide as fro m inside the muse um”
15. Slide 15: Trave l blo g http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/meteorite-blog/
16. Slide 16: Curato r blo g http://foe.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/spymaker_call_f.html
17. Slide 17: Væ r varso mplakat fo r institusjo nsblo gge r http://newmedia.walkerart.org/nmiwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WalkerBlogGuidlines
18. Slide 18: Hvo r mange ? “Det fins ikke mer enn et tjuetalls aktive museumsblogger.” -- Jim Spadaccini, mars 2006 http://www.ideum.com/chin/museums-web2.pdf
19. Slide 19: Me tapho rs o f the w e b Web Metaphor => Primary Concern => Role of Structure WEB IS SPACE => Location => Navigation & Wayfinding WEB AS NETWORK => Participation => Structuring Participation WEB AS PLATFORM => Data Sharing => Data Formats Dan Brown suggested this framework in “Web 2.0, reframing Web 1.0” on 3 Oct, 2006 http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2006/03/10/web-20-reframing-web-10/
20. Slide 20: We use d to se arch fo r a to pic, no w w e se arch thro ugh o ur frie nds
21. Slide 21: gute nbe rg
22. Slide 22: Orte lius: Theatrvm orbis terrarvm http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage
23. Slide 23: .. the ferment engendered by access to more books.. 'All the world is full of learned men, of most skilled preceptors, of vast libraries. . .neither in Plato's time nor in Cicero's was there ever such opportunity for studying. . .’ (Rabelais)
24. Slide 24: Change s e nge nde re d by print Wide dissemination - increased output and • altered intake. Standardization • Reorganizing texts and reference guides: • rationalizing, codifying and cataloguing data Data collection - From Corrupted copy to • improved edition, Collaboration Preservation • Amplification and reinforcement • -- Elizabeth Eisenstein
25. Slide 25: Ethical? Biase d?
26. Slide 26: Ekse mpe l på be talt blo ggpo st
27. Slide 27: Te chno rati-sø k på URLe n
28. Slide 28: An e xample o f so me o ne w ho w ro te abo ut this “o ppo rtunity”.
29. Slide 29: (over 2000 new blogs have been started since the beginning of this talk...) http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/04/96.html
30. Slide 30: Try fo r yo urse lf!
31. Slide 31: jilltxt.ne t