- List of Physical Visualizations – Prime example of curation – open for additions and set up for remixing. Needs an astrolabe. "This page is a chronological list of physical visualizations and related artifacts, curated by Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen. Thanks to Fanny Chevalier and our other contributors. If you know of another interesting physical visualization, please submit one! Or post a general comment. – (dh curation data_visualization visualization )
- [toread] Some Idiosyncratic Reflections on Note-Taking in General and ConnectedText in Particular – "Looking back at my history of note-taking, I notice that there were two significant or radical changes in the way, in which I dealt with my notes or research information. The first had to do with the change from the analog to the digital ways of recording notes, thoughts, and ideas. I am sorry to say that this change led at first to a kind of disorientation and many false steps. I was searching for a new "paradigm" of keeping my research notes, but this search led to nothing–all I have from this time are Word files of papers I wrote. Notes, insofar as they exist at all, exist only on paper." – (notetaking wiki ple via:shannon_mattern )
- media archeology – a conversation – CTheory.net – The important stuff is always in the footnotes. "Media archaeology is an approach to media studies that has emerged over the last two decades. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, and Friedrich Kittler, but also diverges from all of these theorists to form a unique set of tools and practices. Media archaeology is not a school of thought or a specific technique, but is as an emerging attitude and cluster of tactics in contemporary media theory that is characterized by a desire to uncover and circulate repressed or neglected media approaches and technologies. Its handful of proponents — including Siegfried Zielinski, Wolfgang Ernst, Thomas Elsaesser, and Erkki Huhtamo — are primarily interested in mobilizing histories and devices that have been sidelined during the construction of totalizing histories of popular forms of communication, including the histories of film, television, and new media. The lost traces of media technologies are deemed important topics to be excavated and studied; "dead" media technologies and idiosyncratic developments reveal important themes, structures, and links in the history of communication that would normally be occluded by more obvious narratives. This includes tracing irregular developments and unconventional genealogies of present-day communication technologies, believing that the most interesting developments often happen in the neglected margins of histories or artifacts." – (dh theory media newmedia )
Tag Archives: data_visualization
on pinboard for February 9th, 2014
- Academic assessment gone mad | Times Higher Education – No, seriously. When a trend becomes so easily satirized, it's time to abandon it. Emperor and clothes. – (assessment )
- Open Data: A case study using IPEDS for online education – On the heels of Big Data and Writing Assessment comes this for the summer. – (howto BigData )
- Disinformation Visualization: How to lie with datavis | Visualising Information for Advocacy – Read it along with Tufte – (visual_rhetoric data_visualization )
bookmarks for February 15th, 2013
- The changing complexity of congressional speech – Sunlight Foundation Blog – Linguistic and ideological analysis of public language change. – (Linguistic_change linguistics rhetoric )
- Comparing Facebook networks with the students – Overview and tools from jill/txt – (data_visualization facebook social_media )
- Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) « Scholarly Open Access – How to ID a potential predatory journal: the usual criteria of openness, names, dates, places, and association. – (OER library2.0 )
bookmarks for October 24th, 2011 through October 28th, 2011
- Cable Green, director of learning at Creative Commons, on the obviousness of open policies – like the idea, but green's textbook example suggests he's off the mark on how education actually works. – (oer )
- The Don’ts of Infographic Design – – (data_visualization )