Tom Johnson's List: Investigadores Venezolanos de la Comunicación

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21 al 25 de abril de 2009
Isla de Margarita, Venezuela
Presenciamos en América Latina movimientos sociales antisistémicos y zigzagueantes, que apuestan por un mundo más justo e igualitario, en un momento descrito por los más destacados teóricos como el punto de bifurcación y debilitamiento del sistema-mundo. En un contexto de lucha social a lo largo del continente, surgen inquietantes preguntas como ¿hay más democracia en Latinoamérica? ¿En el mundo? ¿De que tipo de democracia estamos hablando? ¿Es posible pensar una ciudadanía activa y organizada en el seno de los movimientos sociales antisistémicos? ¿Estamos ya preparados para aceptar y comprender la naturaleza compleja del mundo que construimos diariamente? Consideramos importante generar un debate desde una episteme latinoamericana, en donde la comunicación representa el tejido cultural que nos permite leer las historicidades en los diversos tiempos, espacios e identidades que se entrecruzan en nuestras tierras.


Conferencistas

* Pedro Sotolongo (Cuba)
* Tom Johnson (Estados Unidos)
* Robinson Salazar (México)
* Ana Irene Méndez (Venezuela)
* Orlando Villalobos (Venezuela)

openFrameworks is a C++ library for creative coding.

New creative communications tools

Thousands of bloggers are taking the time to discuss a single topic today - poverty. As we sit in our cozy homes, go out to eat, watch movies, or simply read the news on a computer, it's easy to forget that there are millions of people around the world who aren't so well off. Blog Action Day is an opportunity to remember and to perhaps help out in some way.
Mapping Poverty Rates

I of course took the visualization route. What better way to get the facts than through data? The US Census Bureau provides lots of poverty estimates, so I took their data and mapped it over the last 27 years. I found it alarming to see that some states had a poverty rate over 20%. I clearly live in a cozy bubble. What does your state look like?

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subject [WedTech] Model reduction: New Approaches to the Modeling and Control of Complex Dynamics
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Here's a nice google tech talk by a CMU researcher behind the Continuum
Crowds model we looked at for the stadium model.

"New Approaches to the Modeling and Control of Complex Dynamics"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPfL8wZ_2uE

They are doing interesting "model reduction" work in:
- crowd dynamics
- fluid dynamics
- kinematic control
- protein folding

Owen, you will appreciate the matrix transforms for model reduction as
applied to ABM...

The work was mostly done at UofWashington under Zoran Popovi&#263;
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zoran/.

-S

Nice video of Steven Strogatz and Carlo Ratti discussing complexity
and urban design:

http://salon.seedmagazine.com/salon_strogatz_ratti.html
Strogatz mathematically describes how natural and sociocultural
complexity resolves into vast webs of order. Ratti uses technology as
a tool to create interactive urban environments. In this video Salon,
Strogatz and Ratti discuss whether building and analyzing human
networks can help us overcome our poor mathematical understanding of
complexity.