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Comment on Session proposal – Digital Tools and Dissertation Work by Rosemary

Rosemary — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:06:49 +0000

I also have contemplated using a digital format for my dissertation. Yes, I would bind hard-copies of a print version for library repositories as well. But I envision your reader assuming an avatar and walking through a virtual: museum and then an archeological dig and then an era-appropriate studio. These would be nice tightly knit spaces that did not require your avatar to be driven over long landscapes (like I see in so many games) instead, the person would turn a corner in the studio and see around her the art object, the tools of craft and the period-specific trappings of the studios and as the avatar “looks at” or centres an image in her sights, the text relating to the image would appear in the lower dialogue box of the screen. For detailed write-ups the reader could continue to scroll through the text while the avatar remains looking at the object. Similarly, in the museum, the objects on which the avatar gazes would be revealed simultaneously in text. There could also be a set of questions in the lower right side bar. The questions would be conversational in tone asking the museum interpreter (an AI version of you) about the age, providence, artist, materials of the object. This would allow the reader to ask a question that is specific to his interest and the answer in the text box would immediately skip to the paragraph you had prepared on that topic as it relates to that object/image.
Wow. I’ve enjoyed putting myself conceptually in your shoes!

Comment on Social media and confession by Rosemary

Rosemary — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:39:27 +0000

Interesting. I was captured by the piece you wrote and was right with in a sense of wonder and inquiry. One item peaks my curiosity. It was your question, or perhaps hypothesis, that confession might be viewed as something we are disciplined to produce. I wonder if you would comment further on this notion. I confess (a simple desire to be honest, here) that I know little of the religious history related to confession, and so I come from a secular place where my gut tells me that these people who post to sites are looking to connect in the safer circumstance of the global community with the cushion of distance and some anonymity.
Do you suppose their strong desire to help others-in-need is a direct reflection of their strong desire to be helped? Does it appear to be an equal measure in the cases you have looked at?

Comment on Computer Vision, Robotics, and AI In an OpenSource Box by Paper Twitter and Hypertextual Social Critique | THATCamp QueensU 2013

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Comment on Comic Books and Digital Editions by Alana

Alana — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 03:50:52 +0000

I think the question of whether print or digital media allow the reader more freedom is really succinctly captured by the issue of classic comic panels, which as you say can be manipulated by different viewing software to become a (more) linear narrative than in print, where the past and present are simultaneous with the narratively “present” panel…

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