ASIMS2009

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Methods in Multimedia Scholarship

This page contains a course description, syllabus, and notes for the Methods in Multimedia Scholarship 2009 ASIMS course, taught by Steve Anderson and Sasha Costanza-Chock.

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Contents

Syllabus

Week 1

Class is from 2-5pm.

Mon 6.8.2009: Introductions; Overview, Prioritize topics and tools

Introductions, research interests, skill interests. Followed by an overview of scholarly multimedia, fair use and Critical Commons.

  • Facilitators: Steve and Sasha
  • Notetaker: Allie.

Agenda

  • 20 min: Course overview and Introductions
  • 30 min: Scholarly multimedia
  • 30 min: Mapping exercise: What does each of us bring to the class; what do we want to take away from it? Topics and Tools. Facilitation schedule.
  • 10 min break
  • 30 min: Introduction to course tools: wiki, del.icio.us, irc, backchannel etiquette
  • 60min: complete class tools setup; media ripping (audio clips, video clips, screenshots, transcoding from Flash; FOSS mpeg streamclip); create a Critical Commons entry with video and commentary.

resources

Tues 6.9.2009: Publication/Distribution/Dissemination/Circulation Online

The transformation of scholarly publication in the online age. The shift to digital journals; the Access to Knowledge movement and Open Access journals; wikibooks; 'release early and often;' creative commons; publication as process; ways to strategically circulate your ideas and enter conversations online. Multimedia dissertations; collaborative research and publishing; multimedia journals

  • Facilitators: Steve & Bill
  • notetakers: (George & Trav)

Agenda

  • 5min check-in, logistics questions
  • 15 min go over course format and expectations; assign the 10min spots for final project workshop this week
  • 45 min discuss readings
  • 30 min zotero
  • 10min break
  • 80min Lab: sophie

resources

Wed 6.10.2009: Free and Open Source

Free software, open source, trends in free software for community mediamakers and community based organizations; free software and development; politics, cultures, implications, and trends in free software.

  • Facilitators: Russ and Melissa
  • Notetaker: (TBD)

Agenda

  • 5 min check in, logistics questions
  • 15 min discuss tagged materials
  • 45 min discuss readings & resources
  • 30 min project workshop: Allie, Trav, Julien
  • 10 min break

resources

Case: Mobile Voices

Notes Posted 6.10.09

Lab links

Resources for finding open source software:

  • Swik
  • Sourceforge
  • Search Google for "Free Open Source" then describe the application you are looking for

Thurs 6.11.2009: Pedagogy and Presentation

Multimedia pedagogy; integrating digital projects in the classroom; Multimedia to teach film & TV language; Participatory learning experiences, portfolios and self aggrandizement online.

  • facilitators: Rodrigo and Jules
  • notetaker: Bill

Agenda

  • 5 min check in, logistics questions
  • 15 min discuss tagged materials
  • 45 min discuss readings & resources
  • 40 min project workshop (10 minutes each for 4 people)
  • 10 min break
  • 65 min lab: Presentation tools, Powerpoint, Openoffice; Keynote, Prezi, Vuvox (Guest presenter, Evan Hughes)

resources

  • Everyone find and tag one example of engaging presentation to share w/class

Fri 6.12.2009: New Media/DIY/UGC/Web2.0/Remix Culture

In this session we'll discuss various framings, analyses, and implications of the practices, tools, structures, spaces, and cultures of 'new media,' DIY and Remix culture, 'User Generated Content' and 'Web2.0.'

  • facilitators: Trav & Susana
  • notetaker: (TBD)

Agenda: Note schedule change: Lab will start at 2:00!

  • 90 min project lab (how to shoot & edit a short video, with Matt Williams; if there's interest, we can split in 2 groups and second group does Audacity workshop with Sasha.)
  • 10 min break
  • 5 min check in, logistics questions (where are the notes from wed. and thurs? notetakers please post.)
  • 15 min discuss tagged materials
  • 45 min discuss readings & resources
  • 30 min project workshop (10 minutes each for 3 people)

resources

• RESOURCE or just check out the abstract on Zotero: Current youth use/production stats from Web Use Project: "Findings suggest that despite new opportunities to engage in such distribution of content, relatively few [young] people are taking advantage of these recent developments. Moreover, neither creation nor sharing is randomly distributed among a diverse group of young adults."

Week 2

Week two we meet 1:30 to 5:30, with lab time at the end to work on final projects. Thurs. is final presentations.

6.15.2009 Mon: Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration

Remember: Class meets for an extra hour today: 1:30-5:30PM!

Collaborative decisionmaking; consensus formation; emergence of behaviors and norms in online communities; collaborative multimedia creation; participatory multimedia research frameworks; implications of interactive technology for .govs and .orgs and for orgs in general; transactive memory; online communities.

  • Facilitators: Paul & Allie.
  • Notetaker: (TBD)

Agenda

  • 5 min check in, logistics questions
  • 15 min discuss tagged materials
  • 45 min discuss readings & resources
  • 10 min break
  • 90 min lab: 30min Wordpress overview and Wikipedia editing
  • 60 min work on class projects

resources

  • SKIM (pdf in zotero group): Hollingshead, A. B., Fulk, J., & Monge, P. (2002). Fostering intranet knowledge sharing: An integration of transactive memory and public goods approaches. Distributed work, 335-355.
  • READ (pdf in zotero group): Wegner, D. M. (1987). Transactive memory: A contemporary analysis of the group mind. Theories of group behavior, 185, 208.
  • SKIM (pdf in zotero group): Wegner, D. M. (1995). A computer network model of human transactive memory. Social Cognition, 13(3), 319-339.
  • SKIM (pdf in zotero group): Contractor, N. S., Zink, D., & Chan, M. (n.d.).
  • SKIM (pdf in zotero group): IKNOW: A tool to assist and study the creation, maintenance, and dissolution of knowledge networks. Urbana, 51, 61801.
  • SKIM (pdf in zotero group): Noshir S Contractor, & Peter R Monge. (2002). Managing knowledge networks. Management Communication Quarterly : McQ, 16(2), 249.
  • Benkler, Wealth of Networks, selections.
  • Rape in Cyberspace (?)
  • Formal Consensus Process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
  • Wikipedia, look at talk pages, policies and principles. Check out the wikipedia Village Pump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump

Lab links

Sample Wordpress sites:

Getting started:

Start a free, externally hosted WordPress blog

Download the software to host your own WordPress blog

  • requires server space to store your files and the ability to support a PHP/MySQL database (consider BlueHost, which is pretty cheap, or your department?)

Some cool things I learned recently:

  • You can create a password-protected space in your blog
  • Google domain registrar is incredibly cheap: $10/year (many host services like Doteasy will provide free hosting when you purchase a domain, but they charge $25/year for the domain name.)

6.16.2009 Tues: Mobile

The mobile revolution and its implications for scholarship (mobile studies; data gathering; augmented ethnography, etc), media (mobile production and distribution), governance (m-government) and politics (mobile activism), health. Also look at implications for surveillance and privacy.

  • Facilitators: Maura & Sasha
  • Notetaker: (TBD)

Agenda

  • 5 min check in, logistics questions
  • 15 min discuss tagged materials
  • 45 min discuss readings & resources
  • 20 min presentations by Trav and George
  • 10 min break
  • 60 min lab: final projects
  • 75 min final project lab

resources

6.17.2009 Wed: Maps & GIS

Maps and GIS as research tools; community and participatory mapping; maps as data visualization tools and database interfaces.

  • Facilitators: George and Sasha
  • notetaker: (TBD)

Agenda

  • 5 min check in, logistics questions
  • 15 min discuss tagged materials
  • 45 min discuss readings & look at Mapping/GIS, & Google Maps/Earth, other map and geographic data visualization tools
  • 10 min break
  • 90 min lab: Healthy City Workshop
  • 75 min lab: final project lab

resources

6.18.2009 Thurs: Final Presentations

Each student will have 10-15min to present. We finish with evaluations and then celebrate!

Russ' handy sound links

Evaluation

  • Replace 'final projects' with a tool review, like Russ did?
  • Useful to do a review of various available tools, and to show people how to search for tools.
  • Good to be forced to think about how tools might be applied to our specific research topics.
  • Good to realize that there are lots of good free tools out there.
  • More lab time to work.
  • Maybe build the whole course around the tools, not a lot of time to play with our own stuff
  • Also good to do the theory and discussion
  • Mixed response: some people would prefer more of the skills and less conversation
  • Readings were too much
  • Expectations for readings too high
  • Less theoretical conversations. Some is good but too much.
  • Have people present on stuff they already knew about.
  • Counter view: some people liked putting the tools in context
  • Another agreement that putting tools in perspective was good
  • People liked the class methodology of wiki and backchannel. The links in class are great. Being able to see a resource someone mentions is excellent.
  • Interesting to go deeper on how new tools would modify the research.
  • Annenberg should include multimedia scholarship as a crash course for incoming students.
  • Next year's ASIMS: this could be the morning session, the afternoon could be the next level.
  • Video cameras was a highlight.
  • Mobile phones was also great.
  • Could we do something where we actually use GIS?
  • Software that breaks? WTF.
  • Being open to other forms of software, not just FOSS evangelism
  • What about the PC users?
  • Mac is Evil day
  • Strategies of using these tools

Resource Pool

Resource Pool: Use this space to gather links and descriptions of useful online resources relevant to the course.

VoiceThread VoiceThread

Seesmic, another threaded video conversation tool

Audacity, a free and open source audio recorder and editor that works on any platform

Soundflower, a tool for Mac OSX that lets you route audio from any application to any other application

LineIn, a tool to let you get your mic sound into audacity

Internet archive - a free archive for hosting audio or video files to embed online

Privacy

Interesting article from the UCLA CENS group on privacy: Participatory Privacy in Urban Settings

More information on "Sousveillance:" "Sousveillance:" Inverse Surveillance in Multimedia Imaging

Electronic Privacy Information Center: link


Free/Open Source

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