Saturday, January 30, 2010

Brainflowing









Doing Brainstorming is one of the applications of Virtual Worlds. The feeling of presence that we can have thanks to be into our avatars, make it possible to be focused on the realization of a brainstorming. Thanks to be located in a space, which we share we others, we feel we are taking part in a common activity.
There are some tools that help us to brainstorm in Second Life.

Brainflowing has been created after studying some of those tools. Draceina Pinion (S.L name) and me have designed and created this tool trying to incorporate into it several functions that will help you to brainstorm in Second Life and to take advantage of the brainstorming you do in this Virtual World, for applying the ideas and discussions generated into Real Life.

Brainflowing, consists on a board where the text wrote by participants will be displayed. Because we were interested on can people can transfer the brainstorming to real life, we have added one option that allows sending the brainstorming by email. Furthermore, we can also display the brainstorming in the local chat. In this way, people can copy and paste in a document.

We also considered that when we organize a brainstorming sometimes is needed to show elements, ideas or images for motivating the participation or even for conducting it. Thus, Brainflowing has an option for displaying URLS where we can previously publish some appointments for managing the brainstorming.

Brainflowing takes advantage of Second Life in order to achieve things that we cannot obtain in real life. There is a common resistance to express what we think. Thus, by using this tool, participants can brainstorm by anonymity. This means that people can brainstorm freely without fear of annoying others, without fear of ridicule, etc. Usually people avoid saying what they think because they don’t want to get others angry, because they are shy or because they feel not sure about what they think. Brainstorming by anonymity enhances the feeling of belonging to a collective purpose, an exchanging of ideas made to achieve a previously defined collective objective.

Brainflowing has a symbolic price of 2000 linden Dollars, which are equivalent to $5.28, £4.68 or €5.52, and it is available in Dracy´s Virtual Shop, http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Zerelia/227/99/74

Clik here for arriving to the place where you can find the Brainflowing

Further readings

Updates of the device

Update of braindlowing. Two new features related with the use of the language

Update June 2010. Select the type of Brainstorming you want to perform in Second Life, by using Brainflowing

Events
Presentation of Brainflowing at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education, March, 2010

Brainflowing at ISTE. (October 2010)

pictures of presentation of Brainflowing at ISTE (October 2010), taken by rosefirerising

Brainflowing at SL Languages 2010. (October, 2010)

SLlanguages (videos of presentations)


Videos
Video about Brainflowing (made by Draceina Pinion)

Bibliography related to brainstorming at Virtual Environments

Entretien de groupe dans Second Life
, by Guillaume Hervet, Leila El Kamel and
Benny Rigaux-Bricmont. RECHERCHES QUALITATIVES – Vol. 29(1), 2010, pp. 69-98.

Gómez-Diago, G. (2010), ‘Brainflowing, virtual/physical space and the flow of
communication: An explanatory approach to the metaverse through a tool designed for brainstorming
’, Metaverse Creativity,1:1, pp. 49–65, ISSN: 20403550,

Testimonials of users of Brainflowing (December, 28, 2010)

Multiracial communities and the virtual world: Second Life as educational site of engagement?, by Dean Anthony Fabi Gui

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Perception in Virtual Worlds: Personality Impressions Based on Avatars in Second Life par Jean-François Bélisle

Perception in Virtual Worlds: Personality Impressions Based on Avatars in Second Life
par Jean-François Bélisle (blog). Sciences de la gestion, Marketing. Mémoire présenté en vue de l’obtention du grade de maîtrise ès sciences(M. Sc.)Août 2007

Dinosaur Jr. (the wagon)

Second Life and Other Virtual Worlds: A Roadmap for Research


Second Life and Other Virtual Worlds: A Roadmap for Research

Brian E. Mennecke, David McNeill, Matthew Ganis, Edward M. Roche, David A. Bray
Benn Konsynski, Emory University, Anthony M. Townsend, John Lester

I, Avatar: Constructions of Self and Place in Second Life and the Technological Imagination, by Donald E. Jones

I, Avatar: Constructions of Self and Place in Second Life and the Technological Imagination, by Donald E. Jones

Virtual Worlds valuation, by Melanie Swan

The Influence of the Avatar on Online Perceptions of Anthropomorphism, Androgyny, Credibility, Homophily, and Attraction Kristine L. Nowak Christia

The Influence of the Avatar on Online Perceptions of Anthropomorphism, Androgyny, Credibility, Homophily, and Attraction (2005)by Kristine L. Nowak & Christian Rauh .
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 8

A Second Life for eHealth: Prospects for the Use of 3-D Virtual Worlds in Clinical Psychology, by Gorini, A.; Gaggioli, A.; Vigna,C; Riva, G.

A Second Life for eHealth: Prospects for the Use of 3-D Virtual Worlds in Clinical Psychology. Reviewed by Debbie Keeling and M Kamel Boulos, Authors: Alessandra Gorini, Andrea Gaggioli, Cinzia Vigna, and Giuseppe Riva.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Can virtual humans be more engaging than real ones? by Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Francois Lamothe, Mathieu Morales, R. J. van

"Can virtual humans be more engaging than real ones?" by Jonathan Gratch1, Ning Wang, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Francois Lamothe, Mathieu Morales, R. J. van der Werf and Louis-Philippe Morency.
12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Beijing, China, 2007

Joseph Turow

academic webpage

Media Today and Tomorrow (blog by Joseph Turow)

"Contrary to what marketers say, Americans reject tailored advertising and three activities that enable it", September 2009, by Joseph Turow, Jennifer King, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Amy Bleakley, Michael Hennessy

Media Today. An Introduction to Mass Communication (2008), Joseph Turow

Niche Envy. Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age (2002), Joseph Turow

Breaking up America. Advertisers and the new media world (1997), Joseph Turow

The Wired homestead. An Mit Press Sourcebook on the Internet and the Family (2003), edited by Joseph Turow and Andrea L. Kavanough

Brand Value in Virtual Worlds: An Axiological Approach (Stuart Barnes & Jan Mattsson)

Brand Value in Virtual Worlds: An Axiological Approach, by Stuart Barnes & Jan Mattsson

Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, VOL 9, NO 3, 2008

“These bodies are FREE, so get one NOW!”: Advertising & Branding in Social Virtual Worlds (Betsy Book)

“These bodies are FREE, so get one NOW!: Advertising & Branding in Social Virtual Worlds", Betsy Book, April 2004, Virtual Worlds review

Sunday, January 24, 2010

DeVotchKa (till the end of time) from Little Miss Sunshine

The Wisdom of Saint Marshall, the Holy Fool (Gary Wolf)

"The Wisdom of Saint Marshall, the Holy Fool", by Gary Wolf. Wired

Paula Treichler

academic webpage

Philosophy resources (by Paula Treichler)

The Visible Woman. Imaging technologies, Gender and Science (1998) edited by Paula Treichler, Lisa Cartwright and Constance Penley

Cultural Studies: An Introduction (1998) edited by Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson and Paula A. Treichler

"Aids, Homophobia and biomedical discourse: an epidemic of signification", 1998, by Paula Treichler

Words on a feminist dictionary, 1990, by Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler

Karen Tracy

academic webpage

Multiple Goals in Discorse. An overview (1990) edited by Karen Tracy and Nikolas Coupland

The prettier doll. Rethoric, Discourse and Ordinary Democracy (2007) edited by Karen Tracy, James O. McDaniel and Bruce E. Gronbeck

Understandng Face to Face Interaction. Issues linking goals and discourse (1990) edited by Karen Tracy

Everyday talk. Building and Reflecting Identities (2002), by Karen Tracy

The "issue" in argumentation practice and theory, 2005, by Robert T. Craig and Karen Tracy

Icek Ajzen (Theory of Planned Behavior)

Icen Ajzen´s academic webpage with the explication of the theory of Planned Behavior

Avatar-Based Advertising in Second Life: The Role of Presence and Attractiveness of Virtual Spokespersons (Seung-A Annie Jin and Justin Bolebruch)

"Avatar-Based Advertising in Second Life: The Role of Presence and Attractiveness of Virtual Spokespersons" Seung-A Annie Jin and Justin Bolebruch. Journal of Interactive advertising. ISSN: 1535-2019, Vol 10, Nº1. Fall 2009

Esther Thorson

academic webpage

Internet Advertising. Theory and Research (2007) edited by David W. Schumann and Esther Thorson

Health Communication in the New Media Landscape (2009)edited by Jerry C. Parker and Esther Thorson

Advertising and the World Wide Web (1999), edited by David W. Schumann and Esther Thorson


Inregrated Communication. Synergy of Persuasive Voices (1996) edited by Esther Thorson and Jeri Moore

Emotion and Adverstising
(1999)

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Jack Johnson & Ben Harper (with my own two hands)

Robert Kapris Merton (July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003,

wikipedia

The Sociology of Sience, 1973

"Robert K. Merton´s Functional Analysis" (slides), by Frank W. Elwell

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (17 January 1881 in Birmingham - 24 October 1955 in London)

wikipedia

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe Brown - On the concepts of function and social structure in social science


Alfred Refinald Radcliffe- Brown Minessota State University

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955), Fred Edgan & W. LLoyd Warner

Auguste Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857)

wikipedia

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau

Auguste Comte. Titulos digitalizados (Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes)

Marshall McLuhan. De la Torre de Marfil a la Torre de Control (2004) Carlos Fernández Collado y Roberto Hernández Sampieri

Fernández Collado, Carlos & Hernández Sampieri, Roberto(2004)Marshall McLuhan. De la Torre de Marfil a la Torre de Control.

Sari Thomas

Myths In and about television. Entertainment and Economics, 1995,


"La comunicación de masas al servicio del orden social" (2000)

Friday, January 22, 2010

expectancy value theory

Definition (University of Twente)

"Expectancy Value Theory of Achievement Motivation" (200), by Allan Wigfield & Jacquelynne S. Eccles

Elihu Katz (1926-)

infoamerica

wikipedia


Broadcasting in the Third World. Promise and Performance (1977), Elihu Katz and George Wedell

Diálogo con Elihu Katz (2000), entrevista realizada por Edison Otero.

Cannonic Texts in Media Research. Are there any? Should there be? edited by Elihu Katz, John Durham Peters, Tomar Liebes and Avril Orloff. (2003)

Media events. The life Broadcasting of history. (1992) Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz

Personal Influence. The part played by people in the flow of mass media communications (1995) Elihu Katz and Paul F. Lazarsfeld

Uses & Gratifications/ Dependency Theory, E. Rossi Spring 2002

Two step flow theory (University of Twente)

The work of Elihu Katz: conceptualizing media effects in context (1997), by Sonia Livingstone

David L. Swanson & Austin S. Babrow

Politics, Media and Modern Democracy: Introduction. by Paolo Mancini and David L. Swanson (1996)

Politics in the Youtube Age: Transforming the politic and Media Culture?(2009)
by Eleanor Hall

Theorizing about health communication (2008), by Austin S. Barbrow and Marifran Mattson

Problematic Integration Theory (2007), by Austin Babrow

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Lawrence Grossberg (December 3, 1947-)

academic webpage

wikipedia

Let’s tell a different story:Interview with Lawrence Grossberg
Interviewers: Island Liang, Panger Wong, Hoi-wing Wong, and Shun-hing Chan

Transcription by Island Liang (2005)

"Being Young Sucks": An Interview With Lawrence Grossberg
Document Actions. An interview with Lawrence Grossberg about the American right's war on kids, the struggle for the future, and the role of the intellectual. Interview and Introduction by Jonathan Sterne, Transcription by Michael Baker. Bad Subjects, Issue #74, December 2005

Media Making: mass media in a Popular Culture (2006), by Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, D. Charles Whitnen, J.Macgregor Wise

Bringing at all back home. Essays on Cultural Studies (1997)

New Keywords. A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (2005), by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris

Dacing in Spite of Myself. Essays on Pupular Culture (1997)

Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988)

wikipedia

infoamérica

Las Relaciones entre Lenguaje y Comunicación en la obra de Raymond Williams, by Tanius Karam. Razón y Palabra. Primera Revista Electrónica en América Latina Especializada en Comunicación.

Excerpts from Raymond Williams, Keywords

Raymond Williams, British Media Criticist. The Museum of Broadcast Communications

Culture is ordinary: Raymond Williams and cultural materialism, Phil Edwards, July 1999

Monday, January 18, 2010

EmoHeart: Conveying Emotions in Second Life Based on Affect Sensing fromText

EmoHeart:Conveying Emotions in Second Life Based on Affect Sensing fromText
Alena Neviarouskaya,Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Human-Computer Interaction. Volume 2010, Article ID 209801, 13 pages

Sally Planalp (Social Cognitive Perspective)

academic webpage
Communicating Emotion. Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes, 1999.

Integrating Verbal and Nonverbal Emotion(al)Messages, 2002, Sally Planalp and Karen Knie

Not to change the topic but... a cognitive approach to the management of Conversation, 1998, Sally Planalp and Karen Tracy

A cognitive approach to Communication Theory: Cogito Ergo Dico?, 19982, Sally Planalp and Dean E. Hewes


Developing and Evaluating Self-Report Scales

Speech Codes Theory (Gerry Philipsen)

academic website

The Speech Codes Theory of Gerry Philipsen

Speaking Culturally. Explorations in Social Communication, 1992

A theory of speech codes

Speech Codes Theory. Restatment, Revisions and Responce to Criticism by Gerry Philipsen, Lisa M. Coulu and Patricia Covarrubias

Mayor Dale´s Council Speech: A Cultural Analysis


The Coordinated Management of Meaning Theory of Pearce, Cronen and Associates

Speech Code Theory as a Strong Interpretive Theory

Places For Speaking in Teamsterville

Ben Harper and Jack Johnson (high tide or low tide)

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Cultural Approach to Organizations (Clifford Geertz & Michael Pacanowsky)

Cultural Approach to Organizations. Communication Captsone. Spring 2001. Theory Workbook.

Cultural Approach to Organizations. Clifford Geertz & Michael Pacanowsky (slides), by Mary Flores, 1987



Cliford Geertz

Herbert Blumer (7 March 1900 – 13 April 1987)

wikipedia
imfoamérica

Herbert Blumer's Symbolic Interactionism, 1998, Lindsey D. Nelson

Symbolic Interactionism. Perspective and Method. 1986

Selected works of Herbert Blumer. A Public Philosophy for Mass Theory, 2000

George Gerbner (August 8, 1919 – December 24, 2005)

biography (wikipedia)
cultivation theory (wikipedia)

infoamérica

Explosión de violencia en los Medios Globales (Global Media Mayhem), Traducción de: Adriana Zertuche. Global Media Journal. Edición Iberoamericana, Volumen 2, Número 3
Primavera 2005.

Cultivation Theory, George Gerbner (Bob Craig)

Cultivation Theory - George Gerbner, Ron Wright & Mary Flores

Cultivation Theory, Daniel Chandler

The Scary World of TV´s heavy viewer, George Gerbner and Larry Gross (1979)

George Gerbner on Media Violence, Part I (1994).Producer: The Open Mind
Audio/Visual: sound, color

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Devotchka - (how it ends)

Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913)

wikipedia
infoamérica
Course in General Linguistics (1972)

The essential characteristics of structuralism, as instigated by Saussure's theorising on la langue and the sign, by Mark Pursey

Structuralism and Saussure , Presented by 袁卓喜 秦海涛

Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969)

wikipedia

infoamérica

The Culture Industry (1972)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973)

wikipedia

The Social Function of Philosophy (1939)

The Culture Industry:Enlightenment as Mass Deception, by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer (1944)

Max Horkheimer (Stanford Ecyclopedia of Philosophy)

Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002)

wikipedia
infoamérica

La sociología de Pierre Bourdieu, Gilberto Jiméz

Pierre Bourdieu, Loïc Wacquant

Graham Murdock

wepage

Los agujeros negros del marxismo occidental: Respuesta a Dallas Smythe, 2002, Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación

Bajo la playa, los adoquines: Mercancías, Consumismo, Contradicciones, 2006, Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación

Publications

Graham Murdock with Dr Antonia Ivaldi, Karen Kellard, Professor Ruth Lister, and Liz Sutton Communication Research Centre and Centre for Research in Social Policy Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University,(2004) "Navigating the e-Society"

"Building the Digital Commons: Public Broadcasting in the Age of the Internet" Vancouver, 18 November 2004/ Montreal, 22 November 2004

Promoting Digital Engagement

Vincent Mosco (1948-)

Infoamérica
webpage

Brand New World? Globalization, Cyberspace and the Politics of Convergence

The Political Economy of Globalization
, 1996

Whose Ground Zero? Contesting Public Space in Lower Manhattan

La Economía Política de la Comunicación:una actualización diez años después

Doing it Right with Computer Communication: A Case Study of the United Services Automobile Association

Current Trends in the Political Economy of Communication (Global Media Journal, Canadian edition), 2008

The Cure - Just Like Heaven (Live 2008)

Friday, January 15, 2010

Andrew M Pettigrew

The Politics of Organizational Decision Making

wikipedia

Robert D. McPhee

webpage


Structuration Theory, with Marshall Scott Poole

Formal Structure and Organizational Communication



Cognitive Perspectives on Communication: Interpretative and Critical Responses

A Communicative Constitution of Organizations. A Framework for Explanation, with Pamela Zaug

Gidden´s Conception of Personal Relationships and its relevance to Communication Theory

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (1923-)

Analytical Intellectual Biography of Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, For Prof. Mary Maack
IS 281 Historical Methodologies October 7, 2004


wikipedia

Infoamérica

Mary Douglas, (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007

wikipedia

Mary Douglas interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 26th February 2006. Critical reflections about her book 'Purity and Danger'.

A History og Grid and Group Cultural Theory


Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism

Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (1996)

Constructive Drinking. Perspectives on Drink form Antropology
,(1987)

Carolyn Marvin

Carolyn Marvin's Home Page

When old technologies were new. Thinking about electronic communication in the late nineteenth century (1988)

Innis, McLuhan and Marx (1986)

Ta saison (bardan´)

Monday, January 4, 2010

Karol Jakubowicz

Civil Society and Public Sphere in Central and Eastern Europe A Polish Case Study
KAROL JAKUBOWICZ

John Fiske (1939-)

wikipedia

infoamérica

Fiske, John (1990) Introduction to Communication Studies

La empresa en Internet. Aproximación a las Características de la Sociedad Web

hipertexto, un nuevo medio, un nuevo, lector-usuario ¿nuevas formas de comunicación?

Identificación y Análisis de Tipologías de Blogs

Comunicación Corporativa e Internet

Sunday, January 3, 2010

The Idea of Verbal Communication in Early Buddhism
Wimal Dissanayake. University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA

Wimal Dissanayake

The Dodos

"Fools"



Our fathers have been entangled in things
He's been squandering, he's been squandering
And we don't do a thing, 'cause we're busy and think
We're just wandering, we're just a-wandering like fools

His son is his prize, he tells a few lies
He's got his father's eyes, it's in his father's eyes
And he thinks in his mind that he's just getting by
But he's a compromise, he's just a compromising fool

And the stance that we take isn't much to bear
Yeah, we leave things to change on their time
And our failure to care for it leaves us blind
'til we're tired and we're crazed in the mind

Now he lies on his back, and they tell him it's that
It's just a heart attack, it's just a heart attack
Too late to return to the ones that you've earned
No they don't give it back, no they don't give it back to fools

And the stance that we take isn't much to bear
Yeah, we leave things to change on their time
And our failure to care for it leaves us blind
'til we're tired and we're crazed in the mind

I've been, I've been silent

"Walking"



You can fight the fire that's in your head
Lay it down, the hour has come to end
Walk around without her just for a bit
Looking back upon the way things had been

Man, I've been wasting so much time
Walking the same street every night
Don't you think maybe it's about time?

You can light the fire that's in your head
Put it off, tomorrow will come instead
We don't watch the tower that tells us when
Pull the wicked flower out from its bed

Man's been wasting so much time
Sending the children out to fight
Don't you think maybe it's about time?

"Red and Purple"



There's nobody here
To tell us a joke
We tear off our ears
The fire that we stoke
You wrote me a note
The pages were blank
And I, I should have known
Invisible ink
I know that I am yours and you will be mine
Come and join us in the trenches
Red and purple by our side
Say you'll never leave us
In this company of mine
You carry this dirt
We stole from the source
Its tongue will be hurt
Attack from the north
The color was red
The number was six
Now you're in my head
No more to convince
I know that I am yours and you will be mine
Come and join us in the trenches
Red and purple by our side
Say you'll never leave us
In this company of mine
I bring this back home
Just hoping I've changed
So that you will know
Just how I'm deranged
But you're off on your search
You're crying, then went to church
You're safe, or at least I heard
Until to me you return
I know that I am yours and you will be mine
Come and join us in the trenches
Red and purple by our side
Say you'll never leave us
In this company of mine


Nneka - "Heartbeat"

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