Transliteracies participants periodically meet face-to-face and by remote conferencing. Some of these meetings are documented with online materials (variously public and restricted to project members).

Talks, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and other events mounted by other organizations or programs that may be of special interest to Transliteracies Project participants.

The UCSB Social Computing Group held a workshop on Friday May 30th on the present and future of social computing with guests Joan DiMicco (IBM Collaborative User Experience Group), Tad Hirsch (MIT Media Lab), Peter Kollock (Sociology Dept., UCLA), Larry Sanger (a founder of Wikipedia, Editor-in-Chief of the Citizendium), and Nancy van House (School of Information, UC Berkeley). The workshop is a small-scale, by-invitation-only event designed to facilitate brainstorming.

The Transliteracies Paradigms Speaker Series, along with the UC Irvine Software Culture Speaker Series, recently sponsored a visit to UC Irvine by McKenzie Wark, author of GAM3R 7H3ORY and A Hacker Manifesto. Wark gave two lectures while at UCI, one on GAM3R 7H3ORY and another on his upcoming project, totality.tv Videos of these talks are available to Transliteracies members only.

In addition, Kim Knight had the opportunity to interview McKenzie Wark on his experiences publishing GAM3R 7H3ORY using the CommentPress commenting system for WordPress. Video of the interview is available to the general public.

“In the Beginning was the Word” is a Flash animation that visualizes the shifting dynamic of the “page” as historical interface. The project was collaboratively conceived and researched by the History of Reading Working Group and co-authored by William Warner and Kim Knight. The site for the animation includes an introductory essay by William Warner.

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Established in 2005, the Transliteracies group includes scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering in the University of California system (and in the future other research programs). It will establish working groups to study online reading from different perspectives; bring those groups into conjunction behind a shared technology development initiative; publish research and demonstration software; and train graduate students working at the intersections of the humanistic, social, and technological disciplines. (more…)

Users of today’s digital, networked information spend an increasing amount of time each day “reading” online textual and multimedia materials (for example, email, Web pages). Yet the practices of digital reading in online environments are not well understood according to the protocols of reading that arose in the last two centuries to support the individual, organizational, and social needs of late-literate societies. (more…)

Currently, the Project Group includes University of California scholars. In the future, the group may also include researchers from other universities or affiliated with research programs elsewhere. Project leader: Alan Liu. Members: Kevin C. Almeroth * Bruce Bimber * Sue-Ellen Case * Sharon Daniel * Mark Goble * N. Katherine Hayles * Tobias Höllerer * Yunte Huang * Peter Krapp * George Legrady * Peter Lyman * Mark Meadow * John Mohr * Christopher Newfield * Robert Nideffer * Lisa Parks * Carol Braun Pasternack * Mark Poster * Rita Raley * Ronald E. Rice * Mark Rose * Warren Sack * James Tobias * Matthew Turk * Noah Wardrip-Fruin * William Warner. (Member bios)

Conference 2005 (UCSB Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading) helped launch the Transliteracies project. Other project-wide conferences will occur in future years of the project.

Transliteracies research working groups convene through teleconferences and workshops or colloquia.

“Paradigms” is a focused lecture series that showcases important research approaches with the potential to influence the direction of the UC Transliteracies Project on online reading. (Lectures, which may occur at various campuses, will be videotaped and made available to Transliteracies project members at other campuses.)

While Transliteracies is primarily a research project rather than event series, it organizes key lectures, conferences, and workshops or colloquia in support of its research activities.

A lecture and lab course to explore the aesthetic organization of information. Lectures and readings will focus on a range of conceptual models of data visual mapping as implemented in various disciplines, artistic, statistical and scientific, that are used to represent information visually.

Topics will include: Metadata, systems of classification, algorithmic models, time based linear animation, visual narrative, self-organizing and other mapping and visualization algorithms. Technical lab demonstrations will focus on SQL, PHP, and the Kohonen mapping algorithm. Students will come to the course with the intent to explore and produce visualizations based on data sets of their choice. (more…)