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Multimedia and Digital Literacy

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.

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Multimedia and Digital Literacy

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  1. Multimedia and Digital Literacy ICS 139w 08/29/11

  2. 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?

  3. Slide Peer Critiquing • Look over your partner’sslides 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

  4. 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.

  5. Communication Media What methods / channels did you use to talk to people since our last class?

  6. Communication Media • Face-to-Face • Phone • Skype • Email • Chat / Instant Message • platform specific instances? • Letters (“snail-mail”) • Video Chat • Actions • Other?

  7. 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

  8. “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?

  9. 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/

  10. 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

  11. Memex • Vannevar Bush, 1945, As We May Think

  12. Information vs. Communication Memex 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?

  13. 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

  14. Why Digital Literacy? • What do we mean by “literacy”? • Sci-Fi: VernorVinge, 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

  15. Finding Information • Search engines • The power of the key word • Guessing what other people have written • Appropriateness of resources • Social Search

  16. 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!

  17. Scavenger Hunt Debrief • How well did you do? • What questions were hard / easy? Why? • What strategies worked well? • (is this exercise at all interesting?)

  18. 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-word---wikiality

  19. 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)

  20. Wikipedia • One example of a knowledge base • Reliability • Search-ability • Bias

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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)

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