Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Metaversos 2011. III Congres (photos of the workshop performed by Draceina Pinion and gloriagdiagoGalicia)
More and better photos of the Workshop performed by Draceina Pinion and gloriagdiagoGalicia in Second Life, at the simulation of the Palace of Congres which is in Ibiza (Spain)
Congreso Metaversos 2011 in Second Life (album) by James OReilly
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Metaversos 2011. III Congres (2011, April 28, 29)
Metaversos 2011, will be held at physical world, in Ibiza (Spain) but will be also streamed on live on Second Life,Ibiza The Island, where users could attend all the presentations by being into their avatars.
Presentations are articulated on the below panels:
Art, Technology and Ecology
Art, Geolocation and Society
Education and Virtual Environments
New Perspectives of advertising
Technology and Applications
The April 28, Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinion avatar) and me will perform a workshop in Second Life titled:
The Importance of Designing and Using Devices for indetifying and achieving specific objetives in Virtual Worlds: Word Puzzle Balls, Dracy Words Game, Dracy Board and Brainflowing and which is intended on showing devices which can be used in the Virtual Environment for achieving different purposes and therefore, we aim to point out the importance of using Virtual Worlds not just a tool but as contexts where many tools can be used for achieving a betterment of the diverse activities we accomplish at these environments.
By accesing to this link (Event Time Announcer) you could see the time of the workshop, depending on your living place and it is also included a teleport to the Second Life place where will be done.
Presentations are articulated on the below panels:
Art, Technology and Ecology
Art, Geolocation and Society
Education and Virtual Environments
New Perspectives of advertising
Technology and Applications
The April 28, Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinion avatar) and me will perform a workshop in Second Life titled:
The Importance of Designing and Using Devices for indetifying and achieving specific objetives in Virtual Worlds: Word Puzzle Balls, Dracy Words Game, Dracy Board and Brainflowing and which is intended on showing devices which can be used in the Virtual Environment for achieving different purposes and therefore, we aim to point out the importance of using Virtual Worlds not just a tool but as contexts where many tools can be used for achieving a betterment of the diverse activities we accomplish at these environments.
By accesing to this link (Event Time Announcer) you could see the time of the workshop, depending on your living place and it is also included a teleport to the Second Life place where will be done.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Dallas W. Smythe (1907-1992)
The Communication Thought of Dallas W. Smythe. Canadian communication thought: ten foundational writers By Robert E. Babe.
Obtain Free devices for learning Japanese at Second Life: Dracy Word Games and aiueo ver2.11-3, made by Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinion Avatar)
Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinon avatar), for saying thanks to all the people who has helped to Japan in its recovering from the last earthquake, has designed and created two devices whereby users can learn Japanese by being at Second Life: Dracy Word Games and aiueo ver2.11-3.
Both devices can be obtained, by free at the shop that Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinion avatar owns at Second Life, Dracy Virtual Shop)
Monday, April 25, 2011
Multiracial communities and the virtual world: Second Life as educational site of engagement?, by Dean Gui
Multiracial communities and the virtual world: Second Life as educational site of engagement?, by Dean Gui (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 1st Global Conference. Sunday 20th March – Tuesday 22nd March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
The Who’s Who in Research series
Who's Who in Research series acts as a guide to acdemics in subject areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies. Each volume focuses on a particular subject area and gives details of researchers’ principal and bibliographic information as well as a list of articles published in Intellect journals. The volumes – which will be updated annually – provide the most up-to-date information on the foremost innovative thinkers in academia. As such we welcome other publishers to join the project by providing their journal contributors’ details for inclusion in future editions of each volume."
The Who’s Who in Research series acts as a guide to acdemics in subject areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies. Each volume focuses on a particular subject area and gives details of researchers’ principal and bibliographic information as well as a list of articles published in Intellect journals.
The volumes – which will be updated annually – provide the most up-to-date information on the foremost innovative thinkers in academia. As such we welcome other publishers to join the project by providing their journal contributors’ details for inclusion in future editions of each volume.
Who's Who in Research Visual Arts
The Who’s Who in Research series acts as a guide to acdemics in subject areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies. Each volume focuses on a particular subject area and gives details of researchers’ principal and bibliographic information as well as a list of articles published in Intellect journals.
The volumes – which will be updated annually – provide the most up-to-date information on the foremost innovative thinkers in academia. As such we welcome other publishers to join the project by providing their journal contributors’ details for inclusion in future editions of each volume.
Who's Who in Research Visual Arts
Travelling by the submarine elevator system (Journey into the Deep) re-created by Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinion avatar) for The Abyss Observatory
Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinon avatar) has showed to Arthur67 Beck and to me, the wonderful place which Abyss Observatory has built at Second Life and for what Akemi Mochizuki (scripter who has a shop at Second Life,called Dracy´s Virtual shop, where all her creations can be tried), has built some scripts- among them the one which makes the vehicule showed in the photos added, the submarine elevator system of "Journey into the Deep". The Abyss Observatory is, according to its own description, "A museum of ocean science and technology which celebrates the sense of wonder people often have about the mysteries of the deep sea. Visitors can even travel 2,000 meters down into the dark depths of the ocean floor"
Slurl of the place where you can take the magic vehicule made by Draceina Pinion and do a submarine travel
Further readings
History of the Abyss Observatory
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Arthur Eddington (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944)
Sir Arthur Eddington - Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
- We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
Memorablequotes.com
Studying the stars, testing relativity: Sir Arthur Eddington
The philosophy of physical science, by Arthur Eddington, 1939
wikipedia
- We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
Memorablequotes.com
Studying the stars, testing relativity: Sir Arthur Eddington
The philosophy of physical science, by Arthur Eddington, 1939
wikipedia
Understanding and Explanation. A Transcendental- Pragmatic Perspective, by Karl-Otto Apel
Understanding and Explanation. A Transcendental- Pragmatic Perspective, by Karl-Otto Apel. Translated by Georgia Warnke, 1984 (Originally published, 1979)
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
The elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion, by Richard E. Petty and John T. Cacioppo
The elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion, by Richard E. Petty and John T. Cacioppo
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Expectancy Violations Theory, by Judee Burgoon
Expectancy Violations Theory. by Judee Burgoon (Em Griffin)
Symbolic Interactionism, Perspective and Method, by Herbert Blumer
Symbolic Interactionism, Perspective and Method, by Herbert Blumer, 1969. Prentice- Hall Englewood Cliffts, New Yersey
Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
"A Passion for Objects: How science is fueled by an attachment to things." by Sherry Turkle
"A Passion for Objects: How science is fueled by an attachment to things." The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 54, Issue 38, May 30, 2008.
Defining Communication Theories, by Richard West and Lynn H. Turner
Defining Communication Theories, by Richard West and Lynn H. Turner
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Cognitive Dissonance Theory argues that the experience of dissonance (or incompatible beliefs and actions) is aversive and people are highly motivated to avoid it. In their efforts to avoid feelings of dissonance, people will avoid hearing views that oppose their own, change their beliefs to match their actions, and seek reassurance after making a difficult decision.
Communication Accommodation Theory
This theoretical perspective examines the underlying motivations and consequences of what happens when two speakers shift their communication styles. Communication Accommodation theorists argue that during communication, people will try to accommodate or adjust their style of speaking to others. This is done in two ways: divergence and convergence. Groups with strong ethnic or racial pride often use divergence to highlight group identity. Convergence occurs when there is a strong need for social approval, frequently from powerless individuals.
Coordinated Management of Meaning
Theorists in Coordinated Management of Meaning believe that in conversation, people co-create meaning by attaining some coherence and coordination. Coherence occurs when stories are told, and coordination exists when stories are lived. CMM focuses on the relationship between an individual and his or her society. Through a hierarchical structure, individuals come to organize the meaning of literally hundreds of messages received throughout a day.
Cultivation Analysis
This theory argues that television (and other media) plays an extremely important role in how people view their world. According to Cultivation Analysis, in modern Culture most people get much of their information in a mediated fashion rather than through direct experience. Thus, mediated sources can shape people’s sense of reality. This is especially the case with regard to violence, according to the theory. Cultivation Analysis posits that heavy television viewing cultivates a sense of the world that is more violent and scarier than is actually warranted.
Cultural Approach to Organizations
The Cultural Approach contends that people are like animals who are suspended in webs that they created. Theorists in this tradition argue that an organization’s culture is composed of shared symbols, each of which has a unique meaning. Organizational stories, rituals, and rites of passage are examples of what constitutes the culture of an organization.
Cultural Studies
Theorists in cultural studies maintain that the media represents ideologies of the dominant class in a society. Because media are controlled by corporations, the information presented to the public is necessarily influenced and framed with profit in mind. Cultural Studies theorists, therefore, are concerned with media influenced and framed with profit in mind. Cultural Studies theorists, therefore, are concerned with media influence and how power plays a role in the interpretation of culture.
Dramatism
This theoretical position compares life to a drama. As in dramatic action, life requires an actor, a scene, an act, some means for the action to take place, and a purpose. A rhetorical critic can understand a speaker’s motives by analyzing these elements. Further, Dramatism argues that purging guilt is the ultimate motive, and rhetors can be successful when they provide their audiences with a means for purging their guilt and a sense of identification with the rhetor.
Expectancy Violations Theory
Expectancy Violation Theory examines how nonverbal messages are structured. The theory advances that when communicative norms are violated, the violation may be perceived either favorably or unfavorably, depending on the perception that the receiver has of the violator. Violating another’s expectations may be a strategy used over that of conforming to another’s expectations.
Face-Negotiation Theory
Face-Negotiation Theory is concerned with how people in individualistic and collectivistic cultures negotiate face in conflict situations. The theory is based on face management, which describes how people from different cultures manage conflict negotiation in order to maintain face. Self-face and other-face concerns explain the conflict negotiation between people from various cultures.
Groupthink
The groupthink phenomenon occurs when highly cohesive groups fail to consider alternatives that may effectively resolve group dilemmas. Groupthink theorists contend that group members frequently think similarly and are reluctant to share unpopular or dissimilar ideas with others. When this occurs, groups prematurely make decisions, some of which can have lasting consequences.
Muted Group Theory
Muted Group Theory maintains that language serves men better than women (and perhaps European Americans better than African Americans or other groups). This is the case because the variety of experiences of European American men are named clearly in language, whereas the experiences of other groups (such as women) are not. Due to this problem with language, women appear less articulate than men in public settings. As women have similar experiences, this situation should change.
The Narrative Paradigm
This theory argues that humans are storytelling animals. The Narrative Paradigm proposes a narrative logic to replace the traditional logic of argument. Narrative logic, or the logic of good reasons, suggests that people judge the credibility of speakers by whether their stories hang together clearly (coherence and whether their stories ring true (fidelity). The Narrative Paradigm allows for a democratic judgment of speakers because no one has to be trained in oratory and persuasion to make judgments based on coherence and fidelity.
Organizational Information Theory
This Theory argues that the main activity of organizations is the process of making sense of equivocal information. Organizational members accomplish this sense-making process through enactment, selection, and retention of information. Organizations are successful to the extent that they are able to reduce equivocality through these means.
Relational Dialectics Theory
Relational Dialectics suggests that relational life is always in process. People in relationships continually feel the pull-push of conflicting desires. Basically, people wish to have both autonomy and connection, openness and protective-ness, and novelty and predictability. As people communicate in relationships, they attempt to reconcile these conflicting desires, but they never eliminate their needs for both of the opposing pairs.
The Rhetoric
Rhetorical theory is based on the available means of persuasion. That is, a speaker who is interested in persuading his or her audience should consider three rhetorical proofs: logical, emotional, and ethical. Audiences are key to effective persuasion as well. Rhetorical syllogism, requiring audiences to supply missing pieces of a speech, are also used in persuasion.
Social Exchange Theory
This theoretical position argues that the major force in interpersonal relationships is the satisfaction of both people’s self-interest. Theorists in Social Exchange posit that self-interest is not necessarily a bad thing and that it can actually enhance relationships. The Social Exchange approach views interpersonal exchange posit that self-interest is not necessarily a bad thing and that it can actually enhance relationships. The Social Exchange approach views interpersonal exchanges as analogous to economic exchanges where people are satisfied when they receive a fair return on their expenditures.
Social Penetration Theory
This theory maintains that interpersonal relationships evolve in some gradual and predictable fashion. Penetration theorists believe that self-disclosure is the primary way that superficial relationships progress to intimate relationships. Although self-disclosure can lead to more intimate relationships, it can also leave one or more persons vulnerable.
Spiral of Silence Theory
Theorists associated with Spiral of Silence Theory argue that due to their enormous power, the mass media have a lasting effect on public opinion. The theory maintains that mass media work simultaneously with Majority public opinion to silence minority beliefs on cultural issues. A fear of isolation prompts those with minority views to examine the beliefs of others. Individuals who fear being socially isolated are prone to conform to what they perceive to be a majority view.
Standpoint Theory
This theory posits that people are situated in specific social standpoints-they occupy different places in the social hierarchy. Because of this, individuals view the social situation from particular vantage points. By necessity, each vantage point provides only a partial understanding of the social whole. Yet, those who occupy the lower rungs of the hierarchy tend to understand the social whole. Yet, those who occupy the lower rungs of the hierarchy tend to understand the social situation more fully than those at the top. Sometimes, Standpoint Theory is referred to as Feminist Standpoint Theory because of its application to how women’s and men’s standpoint differ.
Structuration Theory
Theorists supporting the structurational perspective argue that groups and organizations create structures, which can be interpreted as an organization’s rules and resources. These structures, in turn, create social systems in an organization. Structuration theorists posit that groups and organizations achieve a life of their own because of the way their members utilize their structures. Power structures guide the decision making taking place in groups and organizations.
Symbolic Interaction Theory
This theory suggests that people are motivated to act based on the meanings they assign to people, things, and events. Further, meaning is created in the language that people use both with others and in private thought. Language allows people to develop a sense of self and to interact with others in community.
Uncertainly Reduction Theory
Uncertainty Reduction Theory suggests that when strangers meet, their primary focus is on reducing their levels of uncertainty in the situation. Their levels of uncertainty are located in both behavioral and cognitive realms. That is, they may be unsure of how to behave (or how the other person will behave), and they may also be unsure what they think of the other and what the other person thinks of them. Further, people’s uncertainty is both individual level and relational level. People are highly motivated to use communication to reduce their uncertainty according to this theory.
Uses and Gratifications Theory
Uses and Gratifications theorists explain why people choose and use certain media forms. The theory emphasizes a limited effect position; that is, the media have a limithe effect on their audiences because audiences are able to exercise control over their media. Uses and Gratifications Theory attempts to answer the following: What do people do with the media?
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Cognitive Dissonance Theory argues that the experience of dissonance (or incompatible beliefs and actions) is aversive and people are highly motivated to avoid it. In their efforts to avoid feelings of dissonance, people will avoid hearing views that oppose their own, change their beliefs to match their actions, and seek reassurance after making a difficult decision.
Communication Accommodation Theory
This theoretical perspective examines the underlying motivations and consequences of what happens when two speakers shift their communication styles. Communication Accommodation theorists argue that during communication, people will try to accommodate or adjust their style of speaking to others. This is done in two ways: divergence and convergence. Groups with strong ethnic or racial pride often use divergence to highlight group identity. Convergence occurs when there is a strong need for social approval, frequently from powerless individuals.
Coordinated Management of Meaning
Theorists in Coordinated Management of Meaning believe that in conversation, people co-create meaning by attaining some coherence and coordination. Coherence occurs when stories are told, and coordination exists when stories are lived. CMM focuses on the relationship between an individual and his or her society. Through a hierarchical structure, individuals come to organize the meaning of literally hundreds of messages received throughout a day.
Cultivation Analysis
This theory argues that television (and other media) plays an extremely important role in how people view their world. According to Cultivation Analysis, in modern Culture most people get much of their information in a mediated fashion rather than through direct experience. Thus, mediated sources can shape people’s sense of reality. This is especially the case with regard to violence, according to the theory. Cultivation Analysis posits that heavy television viewing cultivates a sense of the world that is more violent and scarier than is actually warranted.
Cultural Approach to Organizations
The Cultural Approach contends that people are like animals who are suspended in webs that they created. Theorists in this tradition argue that an organization’s culture is composed of shared symbols, each of which has a unique meaning. Organizational stories, rituals, and rites of passage are examples of what constitutes the culture of an organization.
Cultural Studies
Theorists in cultural studies maintain that the media represents ideologies of the dominant class in a society. Because media are controlled by corporations, the information presented to the public is necessarily influenced and framed with profit in mind. Cultural Studies theorists, therefore, are concerned with media influenced and framed with profit in mind. Cultural Studies theorists, therefore, are concerned with media influence and how power plays a role in the interpretation of culture.
Dramatism
This theoretical position compares life to a drama. As in dramatic action, life requires an actor, a scene, an act, some means for the action to take place, and a purpose. A rhetorical critic can understand a speaker’s motives by analyzing these elements. Further, Dramatism argues that purging guilt is the ultimate motive, and rhetors can be successful when they provide their audiences with a means for purging their guilt and a sense of identification with the rhetor.
Expectancy Violations Theory
Expectancy Violation Theory examines how nonverbal messages are structured. The theory advances that when communicative norms are violated, the violation may be perceived either favorably or unfavorably, depending on the perception that the receiver has of the violator. Violating another’s expectations may be a strategy used over that of conforming to another’s expectations.
Face-Negotiation Theory
Face-Negotiation Theory is concerned with how people in individualistic and collectivistic cultures negotiate face in conflict situations. The theory is based on face management, which describes how people from different cultures manage conflict negotiation in order to maintain face. Self-face and other-face concerns explain the conflict negotiation between people from various cultures.
Groupthink
The groupthink phenomenon occurs when highly cohesive groups fail to consider alternatives that may effectively resolve group dilemmas. Groupthink theorists contend that group members frequently think similarly and are reluctant to share unpopular or dissimilar ideas with others. When this occurs, groups prematurely make decisions, some of which can have lasting consequences.
Muted Group Theory
Muted Group Theory maintains that language serves men better than women (and perhaps European Americans better than African Americans or other groups). This is the case because the variety of experiences of European American men are named clearly in language, whereas the experiences of other groups (such as women) are not. Due to this problem with language, women appear less articulate than men in public settings. As women have similar experiences, this situation should change.
The Narrative Paradigm
This theory argues that humans are storytelling animals. The Narrative Paradigm proposes a narrative logic to replace the traditional logic of argument. Narrative logic, or the logic of good reasons, suggests that people judge the credibility of speakers by whether their stories hang together clearly (coherence and whether their stories ring true (fidelity). The Narrative Paradigm allows for a democratic judgment of speakers because no one has to be trained in oratory and persuasion to make judgments based on coherence and fidelity.
Organizational Information Theory
This Theory argues that the main activity of organizations is the process of making sense of equivocal information. Organizational members accomplish this sense-making process through enactment, selection, and retention of information. Organizations are successful to the extent that they are able to reduce equivocality through these means.
Relational Dialectics Theory
Relational Dialectics suggests that relational life is always in process. People in relationships continually feel the pull-push of conflicting desires. Basically, people wish to have both autonomy and connection, openness and protective-ness, and novelty and predictability. As people communicate in relationships, they attempt to reconcile these conflicting desires, but they never eliminate their needs for both of the opposing pairs.
The Rhetoric
Rhetorical theory is based on the available means of persuasion. That is, a speaker who is interested in persuading his or her audience should consider three rhetorical proofs: logical, emotional, and ethical. Audiences are key to effective persuasion as well. Rhetorical syllogism, requiring audiences to supply missing pieces of a speech, are also used in persuasion.
Social Exchange Theory
This theoretical position argues that the major force in interpersonal relationships is the satisfaction of both people’s self-interest. Theorists in Social Exchange posit that self-interest is not necessarily a bad thing and that it can actually enhance relationships. The Social Exchange approach views interpersonal exchange posit that self-interest is not necessarily a bad thing and that it can actually enhance relationships. The Social Exchange approach views interpersonal exchanges as analogous to economic exchanges where people are satisfied when they receive a fair return on their expenditures.
Social Penetration Theory
This theory maintains that interpersonal relationships evolve in some gradual and predictable fashion. Penetration theorists believe that self-disclosure is the primary way that superficial relationships progress to intimate relationships. Although self-disclosure can lead to more intimate relationships, it can also leave one or more persons vulnerable.
Spiral of Silence Theory
Theorists associated with Spiral of Silence Theory argue that due to their enormous power, the mass media have a lasting effect on public opinion. The theory maintains that mass media work simultaneously with Majority public opinion to silence minority beliefs on cultural issues. A fear of isolation prompts those with minority views to examine the beliefs of others. Individuals who fear being socially isolated are prone to conform to what they perceive to be a majority view.
Standpoint Theory
This theory posits that people are situated in specific social standpoints-they occupy different places in the social hierarchy. Because of this, individuals view the social situation from particular vantage points. By necessity, each vantage point provides only a partial understanding of the social whole. Yet, those who occupy the lower rungs of the hierarchy tend to understand the social whole. Yet, those who occupy the lower rungs of the hierarchy tend to understand the social situation more fully than those at the top. Sometimes, Standpoint Theory is referred to as Feminist Standpoint Theory because of its application to how women’s and men’s standpoint differ.
Structuration Theory
Theorists supporting the structurational perspective argue that groups and organizations create structures, which can be interpreted as an organization’s rules and resources. These structures, in turn, create social systems in an organization. Structuration theorists posit that groups and organizations achieve a life of their own because of the way their members utilize their structures. Power structures guide the decision making taking place in groups and organizations.
Symbolic Interaction Theory
This theory suggests that people are motivated to act based on the meanings they assign to people, things, and events. Further, meaning is created in the language that people use both with others and in private thought. Language allows people to develop a sense of self and to interact with others in community.
Uncertainly Reduction Theory
Uncertainty Reduction Theory suggests that when strangers meet, their primary focus is on reducing their levels of uncertainty in the situation. Their levels of uncertainty are located in both behavioral and cognitive realms. That is, they may be unsure of how to behave (or how the other person will behave), and they may also be unsure what they think of the other and what the other person thinks of them. Further, people’s uncertainty is both individual level and relational level. People are highly motivated to use communication to reduce their uncertainty according to this theory.
Uses and Gratifications Theory
Uses and Gratifications theorists explain why people choose and use certain media forms. The theory emphasizes a limited effect position; that is, the media have a limithe effect on their audiences because audiences are able to exercise control over their media. Uses and Gratifications Theory attempts to answer the following: What do people do with the media?
Friday, April 8, 2011
Essentials of Mass Communication Theory, by Arthur Asa Berger, 1993
Essentials of Mass Communication Theory, by Arthur Asa Berger, 1993
Perspectives on Philosophy of Communication. Edited by Pat Arneson, 2007.
Perspectives on Philosophy of Communication. Edited by Pat Arneson, 2007. Purdue University Press
Theories, Boundaries, and All of the Above
Theories, Boundaries, and All of the Above, by Joseph B. Walther.
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
Social Information Processing Theory Joseph Walther
Social Information Processing Theory, by Joseph Walther. A First Look at Communication Theory
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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