Willamette digital humanities seminar 2009, part 1

Emergent cyberculture Contexts for the digital humanities

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],(after Schmelling, http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/7/30schmelling.html )

Pervasive themes ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Principles of Forecasting (2001) ( http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/methodologytree.html ) Apprehending the futures

Gaming futures: prediction markets ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Facebook participation size proposition; http://markets.nitle.org/

Pilot ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

“As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service…” (Pew Internet and American Life)

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],(David Sifry, September 2008 http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ ) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],World Information Access 2008 Report http://www.wiareport.org/index.php/56/blogger-arrests

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],(first stat, Flickr blog, November 2008 http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/11/03/3-billion/ ; Second stat, Flickr CC search page, March 2009, http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ )

[object Object],http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/14/as-the-economy-sours-linkedins-popularity-grows/

(eMarketer, March 2009; Scott Sigler, 2008)

“ There are currently 2,807,974 articles in the English Wikipedia .” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia , March 2009)

[object Object],[object Object]

What is Web 2.0? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],(Pepysblog, 2003-)

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],(AccessCeramics project, Lewis and Clark College ) ,[object Object],[object Object]

-Viégas, Wattenberg, Dave (Historyflow, IBM, 2004) Wikis are (often) textually productive

[object Object],[object Object],(Radio Open Source blog/podcast)

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],(Berkeley Groks; Missing Link podcast, Southwestern University)

[object Object],(Gootube? Suetube?)

[object Object],[object Object],(Ask a Ninja; Rocketboom; Howard Rheingold)

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],(Comscore image, via http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/facebook-now-nearly-twice-the-size-of-myspace-worldwide/ ) Social object: the person

[object Object],(Kenyan crisis-Google Maps mashup, Ushahidi http://www.ushahidi.com/ 2008)

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],“ In general you could say that both Flickr and del.icio.us work in a triangle: person, picture/ bookmark, and tag(s). Or more abstract a person, an object of sociality , and some descriptor...” (Zylstra in Second Life, 2007)

More emergents ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],For academia, this can seem a bit overwhelming

[object Object],[object Object],For academia, this can seem a bit overwhelming

[object Object],[object Object],“ Gender Miscommunication”, Nightingai1e, 2006 Web 2.0 storytelling

“ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)

Social photo stories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Social photo stories ,[object Object],Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Social photo stories Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Social photo stories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],( http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157603786255599/ ; http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ )

[object Object],In the Tell a story in 5 frames group, 'Alone With The Sand' , moliere1331 (2005)

Pedagogies and publications ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],http://smarthistory.blogspot.com/ Distributed conversation Collaborative writing Object-oriented discussion Connectivism (G. Siemens, 2004)

[object Object],[object Object],http://www.pewtrusts.com/pdf/PIP_Teens_1105.pdf

[object Object],[object Object],Kathleen Blake Yancey, "Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key." CCC 56.2 (2004):297-328. Emphasis added.

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Jason Mittell, Middlebury College, spring 2008 ( http://justtv.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/teaching-technology-remix-video/ )

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],(Romantic Audiences project Bowdoin College, 2005-present ,[object Object],[object Object]

Edublogging for years ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],CommentPress implementation, Institute for the Future of the Books McKenzie Wark, Eugene Lang College

[object Object],Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Scholarly presses http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/podcast/

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],( http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ )

[object Object],http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/14/the-death-of-web-20/

What is “Web 3.0”? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],( http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/archives/046534.html )

Web 3.0? ,[object Object],(Second Life scene; Sony, Home, from Wired)

II. Web 3.0? ,[object Object],Google Earth -Keyhole DB -2d: KML -3d: Sketchup -reach -Geotagging photos, videos ,[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],… but not much Web content, yet Arts Metaverse; Second Life,

Web 3.0? ,[object Object],“ Ultimately, Reuters' news is the raw material for analysis and application by investors and downstream news organizations. Adding metadata to make that job of analysis easier for those building additional value on top of your product is a really interesting way to view the publishing opportunity…”

[object Object],Tim O’Reilly, February 2008 http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/reuters-ceo-sees-semantic-web.html

Semantic tool in play: ClearForest Gnosis, FF plugin

Android: Crunchnet iPhone: swruler9284 ,[object Object]

[object Object],“ I called this graph the Semantic Web, but maybe it should have been Giant Global Graph! Any worse than WWWW? ;-)... So, if only we could express these relationships, such as my social graph, in a way that is above the level of documents, then we would get re-use. That's just what the graph does for us. We have the technology -- it is Semantic Web technology, starting with RDF OWL and SPARQL…” -CSAIL post, November 2007 http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215

[object Object],[Eric Schmidt]: Web 3.0 would ultimately be seen as applications that are pieced together [and that share] a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small; the data is in the cloud; the applications can run on any device - PC or mobile phone; the applications are very fast and they're very customizable...”

Web 3.0? [Eric Schmidt]: … and furthermore the applications are distributed essentially virally, literally by social networks, by email. You won't go to the store and purchase them. ... That's a very different application model than we've ever seen in computing... Transcribed by Nicholas Carr, August 2007 http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/08/what_is_web_30.php

Criticism ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Criticism ,[object Object],“ Gartner analysts are avoiding the temptation to give a new label to the latest technologies such as virtual worlds and the semantic Web, saying they’re not providing the same kind of fundamental change as blogs, wikis and social networking tools...” November 2007, http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092107-gartner-web-20.html

Criticism ,[object Object],“… It’s not going to be another era like Web 2.0,” Phifer said. “However, there will be some very interesting innovative things coming out. If you’re in love with numbering schemes, maybe it’s Web 2.1.”” November 2007, http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092107-gartner-web-20.html

(presentation continued in part 2)

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