http://folksonomy.co/?rss=298 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:07:33 +1000 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:07:33 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=159 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3288 The UK s creative economy is one of its great national strengths historically deeply rooted and accounting for around one-tenth of the whole economy It provides jobs for 2 5 million people - more than in financial services advanced manufacturing or construction - and in recent years this creative workforce has grown four times faster than the workforce as a whole But behind this success lies much disruption and business uncertainty associated with digital technologies Previously profitable business models have been swept away young companies from outside the UK have dominated new internet markets and some UK creative businesses have struggled to compete UK policymakers too have failed to keep pace with developments in North America and parts of Asia But it is not too late to refresh tired policies This manifesto sets out our 10-point plan to bolster one of the UK s fastest growing sectors Hasan Bakhshi Ian Hargreaves and Juan Mateos-Garcia April 2013 NESTA http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3288 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:07:33 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3262 What is the function of abductive inference For Charles Sanders Peirce it is the process of forming an explanatory hypothesis It is the only logical operation which introduces any new idea for induction does nothing but determine a value and deduction merely evolves the necessary consequences of a pure hypothesis Deduction proves that something must be induction shows that something actually is operative abduction merely suggests that something may be CP 5 171 cf 1991a p 333 Abduction may thus be conceived of as a principle that allows us to reconstruct how conceptual order is achieved through the imposition of a hypothesis in the form of a minimal theory an idea a rule or a law-like hypothesis - which inaugurates constructivist thinking Here I can only hint at the great variability of this schema it enables us to bridge the traditional gap between the arts and the sciences because it can be used as a model both of explanation and of understanding Hans Rudi Fischer pp 368 2001 Peirce Charles Sanders CP 1931-35 1958 Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Bd I-VI 1931-34 ed by Ch Hartshorne and P Weiss Vol VII-VIII 1958 ed By A W Burks Cambridge Massachusetts London Peirce Charles Sanders 1991a Naturordnung und Zeichenproze szlig Schriften uuml ber Semiotik und Naturphilosophie Hrsg und eingeleitet von Helmut Pape Frankfurt Main Suhrkamp Foundations of Science special issue on The Impact of Radical Constructivism on Science edited by A Riegler 2001 vol 6 no 4 361-383 Abductive Reasoning as a Way of Worldmaking Hans Rudi Fischer Heidelberger Institut f uuml r systemische Forschung und Therapie Kussmaulstr 10 D-69120 Heidelberg Germany http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3262 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:58:33 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3229 Concrete Canvas Ltd manufacture a ground breaking material technology called Concrete Canvas that allows concrete to be used in a completely new way Concrete Canvas was originally developed for the award winning Concrete Canvas Shelters a building in a bag that requires only water and air for construction Concrete Canvas Ltd http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3229 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:59:47 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2989 Constructivism is a recent perspective or philosophy on learning with ancient roots von Glasersfeld 1995 that has extensive implications for the use of collaborative learning tools In employing constructivism some teachers believe that better learning occurs when knowledge is the result of a situated construction of reality Brooks 1990 Unfortunately although constructivist revolutionaries have ventured onto the battlefield of epistemological change most have not provided practicing educators with the wherewithal to reconstitute and embed constructivist ideas within their personal philosophies and teaching practices Teachers might in fact design useful constructivistic learning environments and strategies but may not recognize that they operate from a constructivist paradigm Harris amp Pressley 1991 Even when constructivism is recognized as valuable few guidelines exist for implementing and assessing it So when CSCL tools enter the instructional arsenal of public schools and higher education settings constructivism may not be the theory of choice And undoubtedly many scholars and researchers fuel this problem with intense debates that most practitioners simply lack the time and energy to deal with e g see Ernest 1995 von Glasersfeld 1995 Further muddying the debate there is no canonical form of constructivist theory Cobb 1994 identified two variations - cognitive constructivist and social constructivist - and there are undoubtedly more Cognitive constructivists tend to draw insight from Piaget and focus on individual constructions of knowledge discovered in interaction with the environment Social constructivists rely more on Vygotsky 1978 and view learning as connection with and appropriation from the sociocultural context within which we are all immersed Curtis Jay Bonk and Donald J Cunningham p 33 Bonk Curtis Jay Cunningham Donald J Bonk Curtis Jay Ed King Kira S Ed 1998 Searching for Learner-Centered Constructivist and Sociocultural Components of Collaborative Educational Learning Tools in Electronic collaborators Learner-centered technologies for literacy apprenticeship and discourse pp 25-50 Mahwah NJ US Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2989 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:57:33 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2942 John Pierson is one of the unsung heroes of the independent-film explosion of the last decade Just ask him A New York-based producer s rep he was among the first to discover and help finance the debuts of such filmmakers as Spike Lee Michael Moore Richard Linklater Rose Troche and Kevin Smith Pierson recounts these discoveries and describes the booming independent-film scene from the inside in his memoir Spike Mike Slackers amp Dykes A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema a book as personal and idiosyncratic as some of the films he has nurtured Gary Susman 1995 Phoenix Media Communication Group http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2942 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:44:24 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2819 For many young people social networks such as Facebook are an essential part of their student experience Other web-based interactive services like Wikipedia and YouTube are also an important facet of everyday student life New technologies have always been scrutinized for their capacity to support education and as social technologies become more pervasive universities are under increasing pressure to appropriate them for teaching and learning However the educational impact of applying these Web 2 0 technologies is uncertain Using a Foucauldian perspective my qualitative study explores the networked experiences of disabled students to examine how dis ability difference is ascribed and negotiated within social networks Data comprises 34 internet-enabled interviews with 18 participants from three English universities Interviews incorporate the internet to expand opportunities for discussion observation and analysis Mobile broadband a remote desktop viewer and screen capture have been flexibly applied together to ensure an accessible interview situation and recognise students preferences and circumstances Data is analysed using discourse analysis with an attention to context framed by activity theory Disabled students networked experiences are found to be complex and diverse For a proportion the network shifts the boundaries of disability creating non-disabled subjectivities For these students the network represents the opportunity to mobilise new ways of being building social capital and mitigating impairment Other participants experience the network as punitive and disabling Disability is socio-technically ascribed by the social networking site and the networked public Each inducts norms that constitute disability as a visible deviant and deficit identity In the highly normative conditions of the network where every action is open to scrutiny impairment is subjected to an unequal gaze that produces disabled subjectivities For some students with unseen impairments a social experience of disability is inducted for the first time As a result students deploy diverse strategies to retain control and resist deviant status Self-surveillance self-discipline and self-advocacy are evoked each involving numerous social cognitive and technological tactics for self-determination including disconnection I conclude that networks function both as Technologies of the Self and as Technologies of Power For some disabled students the network supports normal status For others it must be resisted as a form of social domination Importantly in each instance the network propels students towards disciplinary techniques that mask diversity rendering disability and the possibility of disability invisible Consequently disability is both produced and suppressed by the network Sarah Lewthwaite Slewth Press http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2819 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:06:49 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2809 Lev Vygotskyos 1896-1934 main relevance to constructivism derives from his theories about language thought and their mediation by society He holds the anti-realist position that the process of knowing is rather a disjunctive one involving the agency of other people and mediated by community and culture He sees collaborative action to be shaped in childhood when the convergence of speech and practical activity occurs and entails the instrumental use of social speech Although in adulthood social speech is internalized it becomes thought Vygotsky contends it still preserves its intrinsic collaborative character Gellof Kanselaar 2002 Kanselaar Gellof 2002 Unpublished paper about Socio- Constructivism http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2809 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:58:49 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2735 Aleks Krotoski asks not just what technology can do for us but also what is it doing to us and the world we re creating Each week she takes us on a journey to where people are living their digital lives to explore how technology touches everything we do both on and offline Taking broad themes of modern living as a starting point she charts the experiences of homo digitas both the remarkable and the mundane to understand how we are changing just as quickly as the advances in our technology What does the deluge of images from digital photography mean for our memory when every second is being recorded edited and posted online for posterity Are the identities we create in social media no more than exercises in personal branding to be managed and protected like any other product And as traditional churches struggle to leverage technology to spread their faith do the behaviours we all display online have more in common with religion than rationality The time for wonder at the digital world is over we live with it in every day The question really is who are we now because of it BBC Radio 4 Fig 1 Mack on a summer morning 30 March 2011 http www mydogearedpages com 2011 03 photographic-memories html http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2735 Thu, 03 May 2012 11:55:26 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2693 In 1999 a group of engineers in the Midlands UK region who were concerned at the rapidly increasing skills shortage in engineering developed the concept of Imagineering A new initiative designed to introduce 8-16 year olds to the fascinating world of engineering and manufacturing through fun hands-on personal experience targets the engineers of the future at a young age develops and holds their interest and hopefully encourages them to consider engineering as a future career Imagineering Foundation UK Fig 1 One young imagineer constructs a working model that he can then programme using simple control technology at the Imagineering Jaguar Land Rover Education Business Partnership Centre at Gaydon Warwickshire http www spaghettigazetti com 2011 11 imagineering-welcomes-new-queen html 2011 11 imagineering-welcomes-new-queen html 2 The Imagineering Timeline http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2693 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:24:01 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2651 It s very fundamental to Aboriginal belief that language and land are connected and it is appropriate to speak the language of the land on which you re residing So it was quite natural that Murrinh-Patha would have become the primary language of the indigenous people living on the mission Rachel Nordlinger Fig 2 Coding cultural riches Investigating indigenous languages in Australia Linguist Dr Rachel Nordlinger discusses how Australian Aboriginal languages are researched and how particular indigenous tongues grow at the expense of others as communities migrate Presented by Jennifer Cook Up Close University of Melbourne http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2651 Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:48:35 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2583 Peggy Orenstein Cinderella Ate My Daughter Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture and Kaveri Subrahmanyam Digital Youth The Role of Media in Development had a conversation about girl culture and digital media for Googlers in Santa Monica on February 9 2011 They were joined by Adriana Manago who works with Kaveri at the Children s Digital Media Center UCLA CSULA About Google Talks 9 February 2011 Fig 1 Kaveri Subrahmanyam talks to Peggy Orenstein about Cinderella Ate My Daughter About Google Talks a href http www youtube com watch v nrLj7dSbyD0 at 1105 18 24 a http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2583 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:51:28 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2566 Pink Flamingos was an antihippie movie made for hippies who would be punks in two years It s a pothead movie I wrote it on pot - John Waters Jeff Jackson DreamlandNews Fig 1 John Waters 1972 trailer for Pink Flamingos http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2566 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:05:14 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2561 If Die Antwoord are a joke they re a painfully acute one This over-the-top South African rap-rave trio comprising rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser and a hulking DJ called Hi-Tek purport to represent zef a strain of working-class underclass Boer culture that perhaps most closely equates to our own pejorative term chav The band s co-founder and frontman Watkin Tudor Jones aka Ninja has previously appeared in a host of similar conceptual art-rap projects and situationist pranks Ian Gittins 16 November 2010 Fig 1 Die Antwoord Zef Side Fig 2 Die Antwoord I Fink U Freeky Directed by Roger Ballen amp NINJA Director of Photography Melle Van Essen Edited by Jannie Hondekom Left Post Production by Blade http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2561 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:51:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2493 With Carnegie Mellon s cloud-centric new mobile app the process of matching a casual snapshot with a person s online identity takes less than a minute Tools like PittPatt and other cloud-based facial recognition services rely on finding publicly available pictures of you online whether it s a profile image for social networks like Facebook and Google Plus or from something more official from a company website or a college athletic portrait In their most recent round of facial recognition studies researchers at Carnegie Mellon were able to not only match unidentified profile photos from a dating website where the vast majority of users operate pseudonymously with positively identified Facebook photos but also match pedestrians on a North American college campus with their online identities The repercussions of these studies go far beyond putting a name with a face researchers Alessandro Acquisti Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman anticipate that such technology represents a leap forward in the convergence of offline and online data and an advancement of the augmented reality of complementary lives With the use of publicly available Web 2 0 data the researchers can potentially go from a snapshot to a Social Security number in a matter of minutes Jared Keller 29 September 2011 The Atlantic Magazine http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2493 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:03:22 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2418 The journal aims to provide a forum for the presentation of new ideas projects and practices arising from the con amp 64258 uence of art science technology and consciousness research It has a special interest in matters of mind and the extension of the senses through technologies of cognition and perception It will document accounts of transdisciplinary research collabora- tion and innovation in the design theory and production of new systems and structures for life in the twenty amp 64257 rst century while inviting a re-evaluation of older world-views esoteric knowledge and arcane cultural practices Arti amp 64257 cial life the promise of nanotechnology the ecology of mixed reality environments the reach of telematic media and the effect generally of a post-biological culture on human values and identity are issues central to the journalos focus It welcomes speculative and anticipatory approaches to research and the unorthodox expression of ideas whenever the topic justi amp 64257 es such innovation It aims to communicate to an international non-specialist readership Roy Ascott Roy Ascott ed 2008 Technoetic Arts a Journal of Speculative Research Volume 6 Issue 1 Intellect Ltd http www scribd com doc 18815754 Technoetic-Arts-a-Journal-of-Speculative-Research-Volume-6-Issue-1 Fig 1 Urban Digital Narratives http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2418 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:55:17 +1000