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An Exploratory Study Of Online Information Regarding Colony Collapse Disorder, Meredith K. Boehm May 2012

An Exploratory Study Of Online Information Regarding Colony Collapse Disorder, Meredith K. Boehm

School of Information Student Research Journal

The cause or causes of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) are uncertain. CCD defines specific characteristics of the nationwide deaths of honey bee colonies in the last decade. Adult bees often disappear from the hive and die, leaving the colony weak and vulnerable to disease. Environmental scientists and agriculturalists have developed many different theories about CCD and its origins. The different theories create challenges regarding the effective dissemination of information about CCD to the different realms of public information seekers. There is a need for an exploration of the online communication of CCD information using federal environmental agency web resources. CCD …

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Emosonet: An Emotion-Aware Social Network For Emotional Wellbeing, Zerrin Yumak-Kasap, Yu Chen, Pearl Pu May 2012

Emosonet: An Emotion-Aware Social Network For Emotional Wellbeing, Zerrin Yumak-Kasap, Yu Chen, Pearl Pu

Faculty Publications, Information Systems & Technology

This paper presents our initial ideas towards developing an emotion-aware social network for the purpose of increasing emotional wellbeing. The framework will use sensors and behavior analysis methods in order to infer users’ stress level automatically with minimal user effort and use audio, animation and vibro-tactile feedback for enhanced engagement. Additionally, we will explore the role of social support, social influence and gamification for sustained behavior change.

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Skype Mothers: Technology, Multi-Directional Care In The Transnational Filipino Family, Valerie Francisco Aug 2011

Skype Mothers: Technology, Multi-Directional Care In The Transnational Filipino Family, Valerie Francisco

Faculty Publications, Sociology

This paper explores the redefinition of the roles and operation of the Filipino family for migrant and non-migrant members. Scholars have posited that “transnational motherhood” has reorganized they way that migrant mothers make meaning and participate family life in both of their host and home contexts. This paper posits that through strategies of “multi-directional care,” care work for transnational families go both ways: non-migrant family members actively partake in caring for their migrant family members. The main findings in the paper highlight the use of video computer technology to make meaning of familial roles that usually necessitate physical presence such …

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Toward A Pervasive Communication Environment Perspective, Ted Coopman May 2009

Toward A Pervasive Communication Environment Perspective, Ted Coopman

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In a world where pervasive communication technologies facilitate an increasing percentage of human interaction, the traditional dichotomy between face-to-face and mediated communication (especially computer mediated communication) obscures more than it illuminates. This has impacts for both teaching and research. To address this, I propose a holistic approach: Pervasive Communication Environment Perspective (PCE). Represented as a graphic model, PCE illustrates the circular flow of information and communication across mediums, channels, and individuals. This provides a conceptual tool with practical applications for teaching as well as research.

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Networks Of Dissent: Emergent Forms In Media Based Collective Action, Ted Coopman May 2009

Networks Of Dissent: Emergent Forms In Media Based Collective Action, Ted Coopman

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The micro radio movement expanded over the course of 1990s and resulted in the creation of a Low Power Radio Service in 2000. Micro radio activists successfully leveraged the then emerging Internet and other digital technologies to further their cause. By doing so, participants developed new modes of organization and repertoires of action unique to the new interface between analog and digital worlds. In exploring this phenomenon, I developed dissentworks theory – describing how collective action emerges within digital environments. I offer his approach as a tool to reassess the impacts of an infrastructural approach to media based dissent collective …

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Micro Radio And The Internet: Dissent Network Formation In Media Based Collective Action, Ted Coopman Nov 2008

Micro Radio And The Internet: Dissent Network Formation In Media Based Collective Action, Ted Coopman

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The movement to establish a grassroots community radio system in the U.S. in the 1990s coincided with the rise of the internet. The impact of internet on media based collective action highlighted shortcomings in existing theory. To address this, I develop a dissent network approach. Utilizing participant observation I apply my measures of consensus on system failure, relational density, process and resource sharing, and the centrality of digital networks to the case of micro radio.

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Technology Market Induction And Dairy Farmers, Bringham Rees Jan 2007

Technology Market Induction And Dairy Farmers, Bringham Rees

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In this article, Brigham Rees explores the slow adoption of high-speed broadband in the United States. by drawing a comparison to agricultural technology and how dairy farmers evaluate new technology. Using principles laid out by agricultural researcher Raymond Nebel, such as efficacy, training, initial investment, and cultural readiness, the author unpacks the factors that have slowed the rollout of faster internet in U.S.

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Switch On The Radio, Lee Montgomery May 2006

Switch On The Radio, Lee Montgomery

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This article describes the Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR), an independent radio project that creates alternative platforms for community voices. NPR also broadcasts live programming using mobile, participatory radio to document events and expand perspectives.

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The Man Behind The Bunny: Interview With Eduardo Kac, Sheila A. Malone May 2001

The Man Behind The Bunny: Interview With Eduardo Kac, Sheila A. Malone

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An interview with artist Eduardo Kac about his work with transgenic art; specifically the work with Alba, the glowing rabbit. The interview focuses on Kac’s processes and collaborations with Louis-Marie Houdebine. Kac and Houdebine worked together in France to genetically create Alba’s glowing fur. Eventually, the collaboration came to an end and resulted in a legal battle between Eduardo and the Director of the Institute in which Alba was created, as they did not release her into Eduardo's care. The article concludes with a discussion of the use of a rabbit specifically for this project.

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Dancing On The Web, Dancing Over The Ocean, Nora Raggio May 2001

Dancing On The Web, Dancing Over The Ocean, Nora Raggio

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An interview with Amy Critchett, an independent media producer, who specializes in technology combining different types of media and hosting live events on the web throughout the Bay Area and around the world. Critchett discusses her work with the organization GroundZero, as they presented the project, "Dancing On the Web, Dancing Over the Ocean". GroundZero incubates art projects and facilitates art and technology. The organization builds community by creating opportunities for new forms of arts pparticipation fostering an education space for kids using art and technology. Critchett discusses "Dancing On the Web, Dancing Over the Ocean", which featured a collaboration …

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Report On Sins Of Change, Sheila A. Malone Jun 2000

Report On Sins Of Change, Sheila A. Malone

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A review and analysis of a series of conferences and panels held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis that sought to examine the position of art in the age of new media. The keynote speaker was professor Pierre Levy, and each panel is broken down into its essential thesis and themes, and then sorted and compared to the traditional seven deadly sins from the Bible. These sins are used as categorical definers for different problems that accompany present-day new media art. In order: Pride, Greed, Sloth, Anger/Gluttony, Envy, and Lust are broken into 6 different sections each taking a …

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Defining The Lawyer/Artist, Matt Mays Jan 2000

Defining The Lawyer/Artist, Matt Mays

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This speculative argument discusses the connections between code and law. The author suggests that legal frameworks can become artworks that create a standard for social justice as well as a boundary within which an artist or coder must follow. The author traces a history of legal performance starting in the early 2000’s with the rise of the internet & corporate controversies. The article also discusses the ways the internet facilitated spread ideas, facts, and knowledge. It traces the ways the internet created a new way of consumption and concerns regarding corporate manipulation of information over the web. The article covers …

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The Art Of Networking And Fundraising For The Arts: An Interview With Beau Takahara, Ceo, Groundzero, Nora Raggio Jan 2000

The Art Of Networking And Fundraising For The Arts: An Interview With Beau Takahara, Ceo, Groundzero, Nora Raggio

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This article duscusses an interview with Beau Takahara, who is the CEO of the project GroundZero. This interview consists of questions asked about the project itself as well as the reasoning and context behind bringing GroundZero to life. As the interview progresses, Takahara talks about herself and her background. Since art has played a significant role for most of her life, Takahara and a couple fellow artists decided to create a foundation that brought both art and technology together. She later discusses all the challenges they had to overcome in order for GroundZero to become a live and working organization …

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Ideaconsciousness Networks, Wendy Angel Jan 2000

Ideaconsciousness Networks, Wendy Angel

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In this article, the author utilizes a theoretical approach to discuss the complexity of digital networks and the necessary cognitive adaptations humans need to process the amount of information shared over them. Several propositions are discussed including fuzziness, conscious Ideation, knowledge networks, idea structures, and idea coercion. It is theorized that ideas make up our consciousness and provide a more open definition to the experiences that combine the cognitive process. However, the fuzziness of uncertainty also raises ideas of its essential factor in our conscious exploration and that fuzziness of knowledge does not make knowledge obsolete. This posits that there …

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An Interview With Claude Guillemot, Samantha Mach Apr 1999

An Interview With Claude Guillemot, Samantha Mach

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This interview with Claude Guillemot, a French video game developer and publisher, talks about his website and some of the issues surrounding it today. Guillemot also mentioned CD-ROM and the web at the time when DOTCOM started to boom in the years 1998 - 2000. He uses the web to create synthetic artworks and talks about how artworks cannot be objective, the same way scientists such as archeologists are not really objective. In his responses to Switch Staff, Guillemot explains scientists and artists do not form a bias in their works and do not favor one side or another. By …

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Editors Notes: Issue 6, Loretta L. Lange Mar 1997

Editors Notes: Issue 6, Loretta L. Lange

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The editor states that The Web is having an explosive growth with artists seeking to explore this new territory. Through various discussions it has been determined that there are many sides to this subject that warrants investigation in two separate issues. For this issue, there is more of an explorative focus, and for the next there is analysis and critique. There is web art that promotes, as Susan Gablik states, “intensification of the aesthetic process in a void.” Others seek to include viewers as participants. Web-specific art brings up many questions for art, recontextualizing what we know in regards to …

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Currents: Art Review, Jason Challas Jan 1997

Currents: Art Review, Jason Challas

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A review of the exhibition "Currents", on view at Holmes Fine Arts Gallery Feb. 11th- April 28th 1995. Works reviewed include two by Bruce Cannon, “Comfort Zone” and “Donation Box,” as well as Tim Ryan's relief paintings and sculptures. It is noted that the exhibition also incorporates work by Joan Heemskerk, Dirk Paesmans, Joel Slayton, Jack Fulton, Gary Quinonez, Guy Marsden, Christine Tamblyn, Geri Wittig, and Joe Delappe.

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Siggraph 96: New Orleans, Dan Tanner Aug 1996

Siggraph 96: New Orleans, Dan Tanner

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A review of the SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) Conference held in 1996 at the New Orleans Convention Center. Features of this conference includes, the latest technologies in Virtual Reality and Motion Capture, a discussion of The Bridge (a networked exhibition connecting the gallery at the convention center to the Contemporary Arts Center Gallery in downtown New Orleans), a review of the Electronic Theater animation festival, and a description of Wango (SJSU CADRE students’ contribution to the conference's user contributed display area).

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Vrware Beware: Vr At Siggraph, P.D. Quick Sep 1995

Vrware Beware: Vr At Siggraph, P.D. Quick

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The article uses the author’s experiences from the event of Siggraph ‘95 to comment on upcoming products using virtual or augmented reality. The article includes further discussion on the products’ effects on the psychology and physiology of consumers. Some examples include the “i-Glasses” from Virtual I/O, the “Smart Model” from Multigen, as well as the nanomanipulator created by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Department of Computer Science, and the Phobia Project developed by the Georgia Tech Graphics Visualization and Usability Center. The article also covers not only the products of this event, but also the courses, panels, papers, and …

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Interview: Joel Slayton, Christine Laffer Feb 1995

Interview: Joel Slayton, Christine Laffer

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Interview with Joel Slayton, Professor of Computers in Fine Art at San José State University, and Director of the CADRE Institute. Slayton discusses the history of the Cadre Institute and details his views on the relationship between art and new technology. Slayton describes the role of artists in exploring the possibilities and ethical implications of emerging technologies such as genetic engineering, nano-techology, robotics, and artificial life. He describes installations and in-progress work focused on ubiquitous video surveillance. The interview concludes with a discussion of Slayton’s use of the DoWhatDo model for artistic collaboration and of his piece "Conduits," presented in …

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Editor's Note: Volume 2 Number 2, Loretta L. Lange Jan 1970

Editor's Note: Volume 2 Number 2, Loretta L. Lange

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The editor states that The Web is having an explosive growth with artists seeking to explore this new territory. Through various discussions it has been determined that there are many sides to this subject that warrants investigation in two separate issues. For this issue, there is more of an explorative focus, and for the next there is analysis and critique. There is web art that promotes, as Susan Gablik states, “intensification of the aesthetic process in a void.” Others seek to include viewers as participants. Web-specific art brings up many questions for art, recontextualizing what we know in regards to …

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