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MULTIMEDIA AND DIGITAL LITERACY ICS 139w 08/29/11

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Multimedia and Digital Literacy. ICS 139w 08/29/11. Assignment grading. Bug in comments for Assignment 4 Can talk to Dmitri (or myself) about scores Rewrites due Wednesday Midnight (email directly to Joel) Other questions?. Slide Peer Critiquing. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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MULTIMEDIA AND DIGITAL LITERACY

ICS 139w08/29/11

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Assignment grading• Bug in comments for Assignment 4

• Can talk to Dmitri (or myself) about scores

• Rewrites due Wednesday Midnight • (email directly to Joel)

• Other questions?

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Slide Peer Critiquing• Look over your partner’s slides and fill out the critique

worksheet• You do not have to give a full run of your presentation

• This is to check in and to get feedback on organization and aesthetics

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Media• Q: What is media?

• A: The plural of “medium”: the means for doing something• The channel used for communication• The material used for art• etc.

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Communication Media

What methods / channels did you use to talk to people since our last class?

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Communication Media• Face-to-Face• Phone

• Skype• Email• Chat / Instant Message

• platform specific instances?• Letters (“snail-mail”)• Video Chat• Actions• Other?

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Dimensions of a Medium• Richness

• “rate and quality” of information conveyed—the bandwidth• number of channels, language variety, feedback available

• Mass vs. individual

• Private vs. public

• Asynchronous vs. synchronous

• Recordable vs. ephemeral

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“Beyond Being There”• Hollan and Stornetta, 1992 (CHI)

“telecommunications research seems to work under the implicit assumption that there is a natural and perfect state -- being there -- and that our state is in some sense broken when we are not physically proximate”

Can we have a medium that is better than face-to-face?

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Multimedia• Using more than one medium in communication

• Text + Images + Audio + Video + etc.

• How does multimedia improve communication?

• How does multimedia worsen communication?

http://singgiiihwordpresscom.typepad.com/blog/

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Hypertext• Hyperlinking as a form of multimedia

• Simple, early form of multimedia• Embedding text in other text, rather than one medium in another

• Non-linear, interactive writing (c.f. PowerPoint)

• Contextualizes text

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Memex• Vannevar Bush, 1945, As We May Think

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Information vs. CommunicationMemex positions computers as information storage systems, not as communication mediums

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=internet+information&word2=internet+communication

Consider:• What are computers good at?• What are people good at?

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Digital Literacy• “Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and

create information using digital technology.” (cornell.edu)

• Being able to use technology

• Navigate digital information stores• e.g., search the Internet and

find information

http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-digital-literacies.html

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Why Digital Literacy?• What do we mean by “literacy”?

• Sci-Fi: Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (2006)• An economy based on analyzing data• “In almost all modern jobs, search and analysis are how we make

our living”• c.f.: Mechanical Turk

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Finding Information• Search engines

• The power of the key word• Guessing what other people have

written

• Appropriateness of resources

• Social Search

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Scavenger Hunt!• Work with a partner or individually

• Search for answers to questions on the Internet

• You will have 5 minutes – see how many you can answer!

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Scavenger Hunt Debrief• How well did you do?

• What questions were hard / easy? Why?

• What strategies worked well?

• (is this exercise at all interesting?)

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Information Reliability• Source of information?• Potential bias?

• Is information (or even Truth) socially constructed?• http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/72347/july-31-2006/the-w

ord---wikiality

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Contributing to the Knowledge Base• Internet: communally defined information store.

• Contribute to information storage to help others in the future• Ethical responsibility to teach and inform• Put your writing online!

• Benefits of collaborative writing (peer review)

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Wikipedia• One example of a knowledge base

• Reliability

• Search-ability

• Bias

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Edit Wikipedia!• Individually, look up one of your assignment topics in

Wikipedia. To to find: • An error• Something that isn’t clear• Something that needs clarification

• Make a change to improve the entry

• You are empowered to contribute to the public knowledge and to correct the mistakes of others.• You have permission to add your input to collective knowledge

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Conclusion• Language and writing is a social process

• Information is socially constructed

• Writing is not just essays—variety of communication mediums

• Value of written communication• Recordable, translatable, standard

• Goal: effective and efficient communication

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Homework• Prepare presentation for Wednesday!

• Turn in slides to EEE by Tuesday 5pm

• Assignments 4/5 rewrites due Wednesday Midnight• Email directly to Joel

• Can talk to us about scores on papers• Dmitri for Assignment 4• Joel for Assignment 5

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Evaluations• Take 5 minutes and fill out the EEE Evaluation

• What did you get out of this class?• What worked; what didn’t work?• What can I do to improve the class next year?

• (can also fill it out after class on Wednesday)