I thought he might be talking about where we host our stuff as our castles, but he means it in a much more personal and direct way - web browsers (and other internet-abled apps, I would add) are extremely personal spaces where we invite content and code from outside the walls. I think I have the right to make sure guests leave surveillance devices and weapons outside before entering.
How can computational methods generate descriptive field notes?
How are descriptive field notes written/documented? Narrative? Graphical? What vocabularies and structures are available?
Qualitative observation descriptive field notes – (sample from HCI)
So… I’m looking at developing methods for the documentation and/or generation of DESCRIPTIVE FIELD NOTES FOR QUALITATIVE OBSERVATION IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH CASE STUDIES.
Application fo multiple methods to refine the research question. – may start with a broad question, have students do a survey. responses may identify further questions and/or refine the original one. Follow up with additional methods as appropriate.
Continued improvements in machine learning algorithms likewise have permitted social scientists and entrepreneurs to use novel techniques to identify latent and meaningful patterns of social interaction and evolution in large electronic datasets.
questions begged:
Content analysis? Of what? Who picks the content that is analyzed? How it is analyzed? etc…
Social network analysis? What is the input?
rough sketch on how data might be collected in a session:
This entire dictionary is awesomeness and gold.
Blended learning, n. The practice of combining digital and analog teaching. Also referred to as "teaching", "learning", and "the real world".
Flipped classroom, n. "The practice of replacing lectures that instructors give to summarize a course's readings with videos of lectures that summarize a course's readings."
LMS, n. 1) A document management system, whereby a faculty member can transfer a single document to his or her students. Curiously overpowered for this purpose, nevertheless universally deployed.
Discussed problems using actual courses with students as research subjects in the TI, due to CFREB’s freakout about video cameras and surveillance…
Drama course – doesn’t need ethics approval in the same way, as students are participants/performers rather than subjects. Can we pilot data collection with a group of drama students, to test the methods and examine preliminary data while waiting for the CFREB thing to resolve? Archive media for documentation of course/project. Relies on maintaining diverse perspective roles and ways of working.
Doc Searls, writing on Medium 1 about some important projects to help pull the balance of power on the internet back to the individuals that make it awesome in the first place.
There’s a new sheriff on the Net, and it’s the individual. Who isn’t a “user,” by the way. Or a “consumer.” With new terms of our own, we’re the first party. The companies we deal with are second parties. Meaning that they are the users, and the consumers, of our legal “content.” And they’ll like it too, because we actually want to do good business with good companies, and are glad to make deals that work for both parties. Those include expressions of true loyalty, rather than the coerced kind we get from every “loyalty” card we carry in our purses and wallets.
After deactivating my twitter and facebook accounts (again. again.) I was struck that most people don't seem to subscribe to RSS feeds anymore, relying on twitter and facebook for notification when content is published. Which means, on the one hand, I've muted myself because many people will no longer know when I post something (which may be for the better). On the other hand (actually, I guess it's the same hand…), it means that many people have completely abdicated control for their information to companies and their opaque/secret/unknown algorithms.
When it comes to security, where will this sea of abandoned devices get security patches from? Who will write them, and how will they get paid?Like Ward, I worry that it's not just an internet of things, but a proprietary mess of interdependent services built on the shifting sands of unstable business models. Unless we develop standards and protocols that reduce that proprietary interdependency we're eventually going to have a lot bigger problem on our hands than Twitter outages.
The transcript from a presentation by Audrey Watters at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. She was invited to talk about digital discourse as part of their launch of a domain-of-ones-own initiative. What a fantastic way to launch such a thing1. Read the entire thing.
Building on Postman, Chaucer, Caulfield. Nice.
In part, I find that those who want to dismiss such a thing as “digital distraction” tend to minimize the very real impact that new technologies do have on what we see, what we pay attention to. It’s right there in that phrase – “pay attention.” Attention has costs. It is a resource – one involving time and energy, a resource of which we only have a limited amount. Attention has become a commodity, with different companies and technologies bidding for a piece of it.
Article with question mark in title? Answer likely "no." But, it's going to be some classrooms, for sure. An interesting use of computer vision and machine learning to generate metadata about student engagement. This could (should|will) be used for more than just lecturing, and what if students had access to their own data? This could be a powerful tool to support self-reflection on teaching and learning…
In a case of almost-perfect-timing, I presented to the iLab yesterday about some of my ideas for PhD work - looking for ways to help support self-reflection on teaching and learning. I talked about how student teachers use video of their teaching as a tool to learn teaching skills, and how video is basically an opaque blob of media that is extremely time-, labour- and cost-intensive to use for non-trivial projects. I then compared to some of the tools that enable some understanding of teaching and learning interactions in online learning, and that these types of tools are completely unavailable for face-to-face learning. These kinds of technologies can help, as long as they're not weaponized into a surveillance culture or student assessment tools.
For an undetermined amount of time, I'm going to be taking a break from most social media activity. Call it whatever you want: rest, recovery, therapy, need for a change of scenery, election fatique, information overload, a distraction. They are all correct.
Source: A brief pause from social media. – Adam Croom
Yup. I'm right there with you, Adam. I deactivated my Twitter and Facebook accounts about 10 days ago. Not sure if I'll let them evaporate at the end of the 30-day cooling-off period, but I sure feel less frustrated with the world since dropping out.
