7 10/2 Sketch 6: Data viz from everyday life 10/3 Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck. Read all of chapter 2 "Harbingers of the Holodeck," including its update (pp 33-79), plus the update for chapter 1, "Lord Burleigh's Kiss" (pp 29-31) and the ...
Beyond the Holodeck: Toward a Transformational Digital Storytelling
Tuesday of next week, we'll be reading an excerpt from Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace and then on Wednesday, Murray herself will be giving a lecture in the library about how her argument holds up now 20 years ...
Data visualization from everyday life, part 2
Now that you have gathered your data, it's time to analyze it further and visualize it. With the data set that you've gathered, which is just for one week and only with a handful of variables, you probably won't need a computer or special tools to analyz ...
Visualizing Human-Caused Seismic Activity
There has been a dramatic increase in seismic activity in the United States in the past ten years, some of which is caused by fracking but much more of which is the result of waste water from traditional oil and gas drilling; this waste water is rei ...
Are we getting more impatient, if not more stupid? Kevin Drum, marshmallows, and data visualization
Apropos of the Nicholas Carr reading for Thursday, our data conversation today, and the data viz assignment coming up, it seems worthwhile to pass along a post I just saw about children and marshmallows. Are you familiar with the famous marshmallow test? ...
Week Ahead
6 9/25 Sketch 5: Music Mix Have a /code/ subfolder in your class subdomain created and load a basic landing page with index.html and style.css files. 9/26 Guest: Katie Rawson Dylan Matthews in Vox “These colleges are better than Harvard at maki ...
Spread It on Reddit
In this episode of Media Nouveau, we explore how the news and media sharing website reddit fits into the New Media landscape. Reddit provides a scaffold for its users to curate, spread, and comment on posts, while promoting an open, respectful environment for free speech. We set out to analyze the qualities of reddit that define it as new media, as opposed to old media, and to criticize the implications of its radical free speech. At first glance, reddit is a confusing, messy, and often silly place. We hope to demystify its role in popular culture and successfully unpack the chaotic part it plays in the ever-changing media sphere.
Soul Pancake and Spreadability
Description This episode is an analysis of Soul Pancake in relation to spreadability as described by Henry Jenkins in “Why Media Spreads.” We examined elements such as participatory culture, narrowcasting and marketing in order to answer regarding the ro ...
One part of the promised screencast
I promised a screencast video showing you how to upload files onto your Reclaim Hosting server, which I am embedding below. I didn’t really deal with the coding itself, but focused instead on getting the file published once you have them. ...
Revisions to the week(s) ahead
5 9/18 Sketch 4: Triptych 9/19 Podcast graphics & intro, data gathering, Creative Commons, 9/21 Writing Online, chpt 1 “Hello World” 9/22 Podcasts 1 & 2 6 9/25 Sketch 5: Music Mix I've made some changed to the schedule ...
