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19 Oct 09

Language Log » Freakonomics: the intellectual’s Glenn Beck?

  • We might call this the Pundit's Dilemma — a game, like the Prisoner's Dilemma, in which the player's best move always seems to be to take the low road, and in which the aggregate welfare of the community always seems fated to fall. And this isn't just a game for pundits. Scientists face similar choices every day, in deciding whether to over-sell their results, or for that matter to manufacture results for optimal appeal.
  • the trap of counterintuitiveness

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: How Fan Fiction Can Teach Us a New Way to Read Moby-Dick (Part One)

  • Another one chose Elijah, the prophet, and the awful dilemma of being able to see the future and no one believing or understanding what you're trying to tell them. "I'm going to warn you about this, but if don't heed my warning this is what's going to happen," and the awful dilemma that you face. His story was about 9/11. "I'm trying to tell you this is going to happen," and then nobody listened, and how awful he felt that he knew and couldn't stop it.

    • If there is a shared agenda within the diversity and fragmentation that has often characterizes the American media literacy movement, it has come through a focus on five core questions students and teachers have been taught to apply to a range of texts:



      • 1. Who created this message?
      • 2. What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?
      • 3. How might different people understand this message differently from me?
      • 4. What lifestyles, values, and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
      • 5. Why is this message being sent?
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09 Jun 08

Adobe - Design Center : Design anthropology: What can it add to your design practice?

  • to answer the question of design "success" requires that they answer that question of how the processes and artifacts of design help define what it means to be human. This "humanness" can range from how humans control the environment through tools (homo faber); how high-heeled shoes affect natural ways of walking; to moral issues of how participation in the design process empowers marginalized communities. In this space, the practice and theory of design anthropology has emerged.
  • standard card sorting exercise, but I also did research into how humans classify information
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07 Jun 08

Clay Shirky vs. Cultural Studies? | Snurblog

  • collective "cognitive surplus" that is now being harnessed by participatory, Web 2.0, produsage initiatives
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