Announcement: Internal Project Meetings
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).
Announcement: Events of Interest Elsewhere
Talks, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and other events mounted by other organizations or programs that may be of special interest to Transliteracies Project participants.
Announcement: Project News
Transliteracies is hosting a design charrette at UCSB on February 26, 2010, for its participants and invited guests. The charrette focuses on the Transliteracies RoSE (Research-oriented Social Environment) project, now in beta development (accessible to Transliteracies participants). But it also branches out in breakout groups to consider critical research problems related to socially-mediated computing and knowledge production—including expertise and networked public knowledge, data-mining and visualization of social networks, information credibility, fluid ontologies and metadata for social and historical research, and online reading and research environments.- Schedule
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Announcement: The Project
Established in 2005, Transliteracies brings together scholars in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and computer science in the University of California system whose work contributes to research on the impact of digital, networked technologies on reading practices. Transliteracies has established multiple working groups, brought the different approaches of those groups into conjunction behind a shared technology development initiative (the RoSE Research-oriented Social Environment); disseminated research; and trained a large number of graduate students working at the intersections of technological, social, artistic, and humanistic disciplines.
Announcement: General Topic
Users of today’s digital, networked information spend an increasing amount of time each day “reading” online textual and multimedia materials. 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…)
Announcement: Project Members
Current project faculty participants include the following. Project leader: Alan Liu. Members: Kevin C. Almeroth * Johanna Drucker * Jennifer Earl * Andrew Flanagin * James Frew * James Kearney * Peter Krapp * George Legrady * Leah Lievrouw * Lev Manovich * Michael Matteas * Robert Nideffer * Lisa Parks * Carol Braun Pasternack * Rita Raley * Warren Sack * James Tobias * Ramesh Srinivasan * Nancy A. Van House * Noah Wardrip-Fruin * William Warner. (Member bios)
Announcement: Transliteracies Conferences
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.
Announcement: Workshops & Colloquia
Transliteracies research working groups convene through teleconferences and workshops or colloquia.
Announcement: Paradigm Lecture Series
“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.)
Announcement: Transliteracies Events
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.
MAT 259 Visualizing Information (Instructor: George Legrady, UCSB) (Winter 2007) (graduate seminar)
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…)
Text & Image: From Book History to “The Book is History”
Thursday and Friday, February 1 – 2, 2007
135 Humanities Instructional Building, UC Irvine
Co-sponsored by the PhD Program in Visual Studies, HumaniTech, the Humanities Center, the International Center for Writing and Translation, NACS, and the Departments of History and Comparative Literature.
This conference explores media history from movable type to the most recent debates about text and image, including the tensions between image and writing, from hieroglyphs to the fax, from automatic type-setting to film title sequences, and from motion graphics in broadcast media to issues around images and writing in computer-mediated communication. It will include conversations on book history, library acquisition and archives, the Google library initiative, digital libraries, and copyright.
Participants . . . (more…)
Giles Bergel
Lecturer and Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Literature and Media Technology, English Department, UC Santa Barbara (more…)
Transliteracies History of Reading Group (HORG) Workshop Meeting, Dec. 1-2, 2006
Friday, December 1
2635 South Hall, UCSB
Presentations (PowerPoint files, etc.) are in most cases restricted to Transliteracies participants (developers login) due to the in-progress nature of materials and to intellectual-property issues.
1:00 PM — Greetings and brief self-introductions
2635 South Hall, UCSB
Bill Warner (English Department, UCSB).ppt
1:30 PM — 1st Session: Old Media/ New Media
Alison Walker (English Department, UCLA)(.ppt)
Joshua Neves (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)(.doc) (.pdf)
“History of Reading, a Media Studies Perspective” (.ppt) byLisa Gitelman (Program in Media Studies, Catholic University)
3:00 PM — 3:30 Break
3:30-4:20 PM — 2nd Session: Reading and Modernism and S/F
Robin Chin (English Department, UCSB) (.ppt)
Mark Goble (English Department, UC Irvine)
Lisa Swanstrom (Comparative Literature, UCSB) (.ppt) (.doc) (html)
4:20-5:30 PM — Tech Show-and-Tell on an “open laptop”
(Giles Bergel, Bill Warner, Lisa Swanstrom ….)
8:00 PM — Dinner at Opal Restaurant and Bar, 1325 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805-966-9676
Saturday, December 2
The Upham Hotel, 1404 De la Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805-962-0058
9:00-10:00 AM — Overview of Transliteracies (.ppt) by Alan Liu (English, UCSB)
30 minutes; discussion 30 minutes
10:00-11:20 AM — 3rd Session: Interfaces and the Augmentation of Reading
Bill Warner (English Department, UCSB)
Clifford Siskin (.jpg 1) & (.jpg 2) (English Department, New York University)
11:30-12:30 AM — Discussion of terminology: let’s define our terms (please); discussion led by Paula McDowell (.doc) (English Department, New York University)
Reading, interface, literacy, print culture, accommodation, augmentation, reading machine, interactivity, multi-media reading, etc.
12:30 — 2:00 Lunch break and brisk walk
Lunch at 1PM at Café Buenos Aires, 1316 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA; 805-963-0242
2:00-4:00 — 4th Session: History of the Book: Directions for Research
Carol Braun Pasternack (English Department, UCSB) (.ppt)
Giles Bergel (English Department, UCSB)
Jim Kearney (English Department, UCSB)
Paula McDowell (English Department, New York University)
4:00-4:15 — Coffee break
4:15-5:15 — Discussion, or where do we go from here?
5:15 — Pre-dinner walk about the town
7:30 PM — Dinner at Fresco at the Beach, 901 East Cabrillo Boulevard, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; 805.963.0111
*Important Note: Do not go to the Fresco’s on State Street! Our dinner reservations are for Fresco at the Beach!
Rama Hoetzlein, “Quanta: Knowledge Organization for Interdisciplinary Research”
Paradigms Lecture 1—Tuesday, December 5th, 1:00-2:30, South Hall 2635, UCSB
On December 5, 2006, Rama Hoetzlein presented the first lecture in the Transliteracies Project’s Paradigms’ Lecture Series: “Quanta: Knowledge Organization for Interdisciplinary Research.” The following are links to video footage of the event for Transliteracies participants (requires project login). Because of the length of the talk (1.5 hours) and the size of the full file (72 megs), we are streaming the video both in full and in smaller sections.
Video by Sections:
- Section 1: Introductory remarks; project overview
(pc) | (mac) - Section 2: Categorization, Classification, and Organization
(pc) | (mac) - Section 3: Alternative methods of classification and knowledge organization (e.g., network)
(pc) | (mac) - Section 4: Semantic Networks
(pc) | (mac) - Section 5: Outline of the Quanta System
(pc) | (mac) - Section 6: Demonstration of Quanta
(pc) | (mac) - Accompanying Images for the Demo (Copyright© 2007 Rama C. Hoetzlein):
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 - Section 7: Question and Answer Session
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- Rama Hoetzlein is a Ph.D. student in the UCSB Media Arts & Technology Program whose theoretical and technological working on knowledge organization and intelligent systems. He presented his completed Quanta project and thesis on April 13, 2007 at UCSB. (bio)
Conference 2005 (Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading)
The Transliteracies 2005 conference (Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading) assembles a distinguished group of theorists and practitioners from the humanities, arts, social sciences, computer science, and industry to talk about the fate of reading in the “new media” age. The conference initiates the Transliteracies research initiative. (Conference Site)
Paradigms Lecture Series
“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.)
Conferences
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.
Workshops & Colloquia
Transliteracies research working groups convene through teleconferences and workshops or colloquia.
Internal Project Meetings
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).
Events of Interest Elsewhere
Talks, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and other events mounted by other organizations or programs that may be of special interest to Transliteracies Project participants.