The following posts feature recent Transliteracies research projects, reports, events, or highlights. (These items also rotate through the “Current Research Highlights” panel at the top of the sidebar on the home page of this site.)
The following Transliteracies faculty participants, invited respondents, graduate-student research assistants, and other guests are participating in the RoSE Design Charrette on February 26, 2010 (see Schedule). (more…)
Currently in beta development, RoSE is open to Transliteracies participants, guests, and others involved in project development or critique. It is hosted on the server of the Media Arts and Technology Program at UC Santa Barbara. At present, RoSE is a working demonstration; it is not implemented at a production scale.
Transliteracies faculty members from multiple University of California campuses and invited guests from corporations and other universities are participating on February 26, 2010, at UC Santa Barbara in a full-day design charrette. The morning is devoted to presenting, brainstorming, and critiquing RoSE. In the afternoon, breakout groups focus on some of the critical research problems of 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.
When it began in 2000, the Transliteracies Project took on the broad topic of “the technological, social, and cultural practices of online reading.” Several years of work now leads Transliteracies to focus on a specific, high-value research-and-development direction—one that positions online reading as a new kind of research activity positioned in a sweet spot between academic and mainstream information practices. This direction is challenging enough to drive next-generation research on online reading environments, and is distinct from (even as it complements) related research projects.
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The following graduate-student researchers on multiple University of California campuses worked on RoSe with project director Alan Liu during 2008-2010:
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The following, selected Transliteracies research reports helped guide the development of the RoSE project.
RoSE developer Ivana Andjelkovic created several different concept visualizations of RoSE to depict the different ways we can understand the relationships between people and documents. Supplemented by social-network diagrams concepts, these evolved into the current set of RoSE visualizations (created with the conceptual and/or programming assistance of RoSE developers Rama Hoetzlein, Salman Bakht, and Lilly Nguyen).
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The following are Transliteracies partners or affiliates that have had a role in the development of the RoSE Project. (more…)
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Related Categories: Social Networking Systems | Tools for Analyzing Social Networks | Online Journals | Online Knowledge Bases
MediaCommons is a project led by Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Avi Santo currently in development at USC as part of the Institute for the Future of the Book. The project is a network for media scholars and students, providing access to scholarship beyond traditional peer-reviewed journals in the form of wikis, blogs, journals, and other digital media. A major goal of the project is to re-imagine the scholarly press as a social network through which scholars can, via the affordances of digital network technologies, produce new knowledge about their specific fields. As it stands, MediaCommons also has two projects in development, In Media Res and MediaCommonsPress.
Currently, the developer staff includes graduate students from several UC campuses and disciplines, including English, Information Studies, Media Arts and Technology, and Visual Studies.
Ivana Andjelkovic
Charlotte Becker
Salman Bahkt
Erik Chuk
Anne Cong-Huyen
Chris Hagenah
Rama Hoetzlein
Pehr Hovey
Renee Hudson
David Kim
Bola King
Eric Nebeker
Lilly Nguyen
Greg Pollock
Jeremy Snow
Arden Stern
Lindsay Thomas