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Cultural informatics
Ways of knowing and ways of doing are being deeply impacted by digital technology from the perspective of individuals, institutions, societies, and global communities. The way in which we view ourselves and create images of self are mirrored through visual culture, expressed…
Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
La solitudine non è un albero nella pianura
La stessa proliferazione di chat e Facebook di varia natura afferisce a quest’ansia comunicativa un po’ effimera, capace tuttavia di evitare i buchi solitari che il tempo, pure compresso, talvolta ci riserva. Ecco che mi viene in mente una bella frase di Fernando Pessoa: «La…
Orrore per Facebook
Quando mi sono iscritto su Facebook, per provare cosa fosse, spinto da un amico, sono inorridito. Quanto tempo buttato a dire cose senza senso, con sconosciuti di cui si ignora ogni forma e fattezza. L’assunto di quel sito diabolico sarebbe poi la possibilità di ritrovare…
L'Italia è più bella lontano dal lavoro
L’Italia è tanto più bella quanto più ci si sposta da dove c’è lavoro. Nella gran parte del Paese si compra ancora bene, si vive bene, non ci si allontana troppo dagli affetti. Inoltre, la comunicazione oggi è molto semplice, lo sappiamo tutti. Non serve essere al centro di…
La tecnologia non estingue le relazioni
Hai voglia a dire che il telefono avrebbe estinto le relazioni personali. Non è andata così, come tuonavano i soliti catastrofisti retrogradi. È stata detta la stessa cosa per la posta elettronica. L’uomo tende a frequentarsi, ad onta di qualunque remotizzazione della…
Stiamo poco con noi stessi
Il male di quest’epoca non è lo star poco insieme, non è comunicare poco, bensì il fatto che si sta poco con se stessi, e che dunque si comunica male. Sulla via dell’autenticità e della ricerca di senso c’è assai più il bisogno di riconnettersi con se stessi, ognuno con sé…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
The Byzantine Generals Problem
The Microsoft scientist Leslie Lamport captured the fundamental problem of achieving reliable consensus in distributed control systems with a beautiful and intuitive metaphor in the early 1980s. In a landmark paper called “The Byzantine Generals Problem,” Lamport described what…
Four generals for Byzantine fault tolerance
divisions surround an enemy camp. After observing the enemy, the generals must communicate among themselves and come to consensus on a plan of action. They must decide whether to attack or retreat. If they all agree to attack, they win. If they all agree not to attack, they…
Book Preview: Speaking Our Minds | Replicated Typo
Ostensive communication
An intuitive way of thinking about how communication works is in terms of machine-like encoding and decoding. This actually works as a way to describe much (most? all?) animal communication, especially if we allow the codes to operate probabilistically. Codes that make this…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Introspection versus extrospection
These asymmetries originate from a phenomenon well established in the cognitive neurosciences. Any human behavior has many moving parts, roughly divisible into background and foreground elements. Background components involve our evolutionary history, genetic makeup, and fetal…
Five ingredients of the intelligence stew
Many ingredients make up the human intelligence stew, and I’d like to describe five that I think you would do well to consider as you contemplate your child’s intellectual gifts. They are: • The desire to explore • Self-control • Creativity • Verbal communication • Interpreting…
Gestures are windows into thought
Gestures and speech used similar neural circuits as they developed in our evolutionary history. University of Chicago psycholinguist David McNeill was the first to suggest this. He thought nonverbal and verbal skills might retain their strong ties even though they’ve diverged…
Faces give away our emotions
Paul Ekman, professor emeritus from the University of California–San Francisco, seldom misinterprets people’s faces. He has cataloged more than 10,000 possible combinations of facial expressions, creating an inventory called the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). This research…
Authoritative parenting works best
Authoritative: Just right Responsive plus demanding. The best of the lot. These parents are demanding, but they care a great deal about their kids. They explain their rules and encourage their children to state their reactions to them. They encourage high levels of…
Börje Langefors - Wikipedia
Infological equation
A major achievement of his work is the formulation of the 'infological equation' describing the difference between data and information as follows: I = i(D, S, t) This is a mathematical expression for the observation, that the information "I" communicated by a set of data to…
Complete Beginner's Guide To Information Architecture - Ux Booth | Ux Booth
Information architecture structures communication
Information architecture encompasses a wide range of problems. But regardless of the specific context or objectives of a given information architecture project, our concern is always with creating structures to facilitate effective communication. This notion is the core of our…
Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)
Il Giappone è come un country club
Le chiesi se le mancava mai il Giappone. Sospirò e un’espressione calma le si dipinse sul viso. «Sì. No. Non lo so. I primi due anni mi mancava. Poi sono arrivati i bambini – sono gemelli – e due anni dopo sono venuti i miei genitori e si sono comportati malissimo. Continuavano…
Ogni rapporto ha le sue zone d'ombra
Potrei dirti molte cose su quello che provo rispetto alla vita e al mondo e a quello che abbiamo dentro: cose che, in un certo senso, non potrei dire nemmeno a Scott, perché ogni rapporto ha le sue zone d’ombra. Ma non lo farò, perché viviamo in mondi diversi e devo lasciar…
Durante (Andrea De Carlo)
Né amici né estranei
Ci siamo guardati di nuovo ma senza dire niente, abbiamo fatto gesti a vuoto. In realtà eravamo già ai limiti delle nostre possibilità di comunicazione: non abbastanza amici da scivolare di argomento in argomento senza doverci pensare, non abbastanza estranei da accontentarci…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Evolving meaning and communication bottom-up
Although the principles of new AI translate most directly into the field of robotics, they are by no means limited to issues in robotics. A closer treatment of the interaction between agents and their environments can be applied to every branch of AI. Luc Steels, director of…
A shared language emerging between agents
The aim of the experiment is to investigate how a shared language can emerge as a result of the interactions between agents. Crucially, nowhere in the experiment is language defined; it develops as a result of interactions between the agents. Starting with a blank slate, the…
The Talking Heads experiment
The key insight of the Talking Heads experiment is that agents develop their own individual and internal way of categorising the world they see. While, at the same time, through external communication, they negotiate a shared lexicon. Different agents may be talking about the…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Una corrente che non capita quasi mai
“Non ti disturba che abbia invaso il tuo giardino segreto?” dice lui. “No” dice lei, scuote piano la testa. Sorride, e poco a poco sente un allentamento delle sue tensioni interne, come un respiro profondo che le scioglie i pensieri e i muscoli e le fa venire la pelle d’oca, la…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Il saggio ascolta a orecchie tese
L’articolo X fornisce un utile suggerimento. Nel contrasto di opinioni non dobbiamo credere di essere noi necessariamente i saggi, né che gli altri siano necessariamente degli sciocchi. Si tratta di un principio tutt’altro che scontato: stimola la vocazione al dibattito e il…
L'illuminazione senza parole
L’ambito della parola è limitato. Il risveglio si ottiene grazie all’azione o al gesto opportuni. Come in Cina, i maestri si avvalgono di espedienti non verbali, di urla o di percosse, per esortare i discepoli a una comprensione più elevata. Furono proprio queste componenti ad…
«Ci penserò su» nasconde un rifiuto
Al di là degli stereotipi, è vero che un giapponese tende a celare i propri difetti per apparire perfetto. Teme l’abbandono e la disapprovazione: l’anticonformismo è severamente proibito. Più che ipocrisia, ciò denota insicurezza e la potenza di un istinto del gregge che non si…
On The Marginal Cost Of Scholarly Communication | Read.science.ai
High quality “plug-and-play” open source software solutions would have a significant impact in reducing the marginal cost of scholarly communication
We assessed the marginal cost of scholarly communication from the perspective of an agent looking to start an independent, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. We found that various vendors can accommodate all of the services required for scholarly communication for a price ranging…
Prof.dr. B. Mons
Evolution of web publishing
The period in which ‘web publishing’ apparently meant ‘putting dead PDF’s on the Internet’ is as good as over. However, the so called ‘article of the furture’, in fact not more than a mishappened Christmas tree of hyperlinks in the text that was originally meant for reading, is…
Confirmational reading
The use of scientific literature and databases is rapidly shifting from ‘exploratory’ reading to ‘confirmational reading’ to check elements of the hypotheses that massive data analyses throw at us. This requires a very different role for scholarly communication and this is not…
Semiotic Engineering - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Semiotic engineering
Semiotic Engineering views HCI as computer-mediated communication between designers and users at interaction time. The system speaks for its designers in various types of conversations specified at design time. These conversations communicate the designers' understanding of who…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Character communicates most eloquently
But secondary traits alone have no permanent worth in long-term relationships. Eventually, if there isn’t deep integrity and fundamental character strength, the challenges of life will cause true motives to surface and human relationship failure will replace short-term success…
Character without communication skills
There are, of course, situations where people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well. But the effects are still secondary.
Listening requires emotional strength
I talked with the father and found that he was intellectually aware of what was happening. But while he admitted he had a temper problem, he refused to take responsibility for it and to honestly accept the fact that his emotional development level was low. It was more than his…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Every advance is interlocked with all others
Speaking as an old man in the 1960s, Sir Cedric Hardwicke said that his only regret was that he could not have lived in the Victorian Age—with penicillin. I am still grateful that I do not have to submit to the doctoring and dentistry of my childhood, yet I realize that…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Say it so great-aunt Gertrude can understand
The teacher who most affected me in my undergraduate years made a similar comment to Mead’s in his existential philosophy course. “This course,” he was known to say, “attracts those who want a podium. If you have something to say . . . it best be said in a way that my…
Mead: explain it to a twelve-year-old
Anthropologist and teacher Margaret Mead said in Redbook magazine in 1963, “If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Defining periods and settling terminological disputes
The design of such thesauri contributes to: the basic problems of how to define cultural periods and their interrelations (even when precise time, space and other properties are debatable or even unknown), and to the applied problem of communication, that arises because of…
Two Decades Of The Language-action Perspective
Communication and organization
Moreover, communication and organization are closely intertwined: communication is not something that just occurs within an organization, because organizations themselves emerge in communication [2]. Taylor, J. Rethinking the Theory of Organizational Communication: How to Read…
Communication is more than speech acts
Over the years it became clear that communication is much more complex than a naïve speech-act theory would suggest. Communicative action draws heavily on the context. A certain message can bundle several speech acts, or maintain an intentional ambiguity. Whereas early LAP…
The conversation for action loop
Winograd and Flores illustrated how a language-action perspective can guide design with a model they called the "Conversation for Action." This is a loop in which one person makes a request that is agreed to and fulfilled by another person. This universal pattern of human…
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
La fine dell'infatuazione per una star
Però la fase dell’infatuazione sessuale è durata ben poco, così come il divertimento da iperesposizione mediatica. Per quanto si sforzasse ogni mattina e ogni sera di vedere la Lynn Lou Shaw ammirata e desiderata da milioni di uomini in tutto il pianeta, quella che aveva…