Category: Electronic Research, Information Rhetoric

“Electronic media have changed the way humans interact with information.
Information is created, exchanged, stored, and retrieved digitally. Marshall
McLuhan has famously said “The medium is the massage” a play-on-words that notes the media we use to create, exchange, store, and retrieve information affects or even determines the content of that information.”
Prof. Nicholas Schiller

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The Miscellaneous Universe of Knowledge: Reflections on ‘The Work of Knowledge’

Reading Response to: “The Work of Knowledge” Shared Knowledge"Discussing differences while standing on shared ground, we work towards understanding." This simple yet profound statement captures the collaborative nature of knowledge creation. Philosophers are often solitary thinkers, engaging in deep and structured reflection. However, conversations bring a unique dynamic. In a discussion, thoughts are less edited, …

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Thoughts on my blog organization

The blog assignment focuses on organizing content into two categories, Classwork and Homework, while navigating the complexities of tagging related posts. Tags serve as keywords linking content and will be refined by observing best practices from other bloggers. The goal is to provide insights on electronic media and information management.

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Reading Response to: “Messiness as a Virtue”

Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger In the mess left by the department store sales (first order mess) and incompatibility of the patients records (second order mess) we "feel better" when they are fixed up to the original state …

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Class work: lecture notes on Social Knowing, etc.

Examining an academic database social knowing publish then filter lab exercise Books we think of being static, concrete tangible things we get answers.  But over time, books are a slower conversation or a forum on the topic, then today's blogs, and forums. Information cloud-editor-publisher-distribute-consumer. information cloud-users as editors - communities - users as users The …

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Reading Response to: “What Nothing Says”

Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger A very easy to read chapter, unlike the previous, perhaps because it talks about the ones and zeros of our basic mentality.  We read signs and if they are not simple enough we …

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Reading Response to: “Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google”

Search engines becoming very important in our lives, our news, our education, and even politics are dependent upon the searchability of the subject we search for.  As Dewey's, rigid structure of categories has its flaws because once the ingredients are mixed, you can't go back and undo what you already mixed in to the bowl.  …

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The Shift from Editor to Community: Reflections on Weinberger’s ‘Everything is Miscellaneous’

David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2008) explores how the digital age transforms the way we organize, share, and consume knowledge. Early in the book, Weinberger highlights the role of editors, the "social royalty" of a highly hierarchical knowledge system. Editors decide what to include and how to structure …

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Reading Response to: “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”

creating a web search engine is not an easy task for an ever increasing growth of the web, however, with today's technologies, the technical part of improving its infrastructures is getting easier and cheaper.  The improvement of the search quality is the main goal here.  If I understand it correctly, the problem here is the …

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Class work: Comparing PsycINFO and Google search engines

searching for "educational system in America" Google scholar: came back with the result of 3.2 mil. hits. CSA web: came up with 249 publications ---------------------------- Google: searched instead of "Find articles with all of the words" i used a different field to "Find articles with all of the words with the exact phrase" which narrowed …

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Reading Response to: “Publish, Then Filter”

"Here Comes Everybody," Chapter 4 reflection: The chapter begins by saying that  "media landscape is transofrmed, because personal communication and publishing, previously separate functions" are now merging together.  The media landscape becomes more miscellaneous.  The problem is that bad filtering is mixed with good.  In other words, "bad" miscellany clogs up the internet. Peronal postings, …

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Reading Response to: “Psychology Journal Articles”

Reflection on the readings. This chapter begins with talking about research and peer review process.  Psychologists prefer to use a quality research because it is done by peer review process, which is a careful and meticulous process of reviewing and contributing to the thought process on the works of professionals by other professionals in a …

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Class work: Lab on delicious, bookmarks, tagging, comparing, and searching

I have chosen to add local multimedia production houses both public and private to my list of bookmarks on delicious.  When compared my tagging to others I found it interesting that mostly our tags matched one another.  For example: Portland Community Media website has tags that reflect geographical location, type of business and type of …

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Class work: SEARCHING for MENDELEEV, WHERE ARE YOU? Part II

Search Griffin Catalog Clicked advanced search tab entered word <mendeleev> into the first tab under <Any Field:> In Limited to list I picked the following: Location: <ANY>; Material Type <ANY>; Language <English> the search result came back with three results: the descriptive data of the Highly relevant title entree is important to have in order to perform …

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Reading Response to: “The Geography of Knowledge”

Chapter 3 reflection: Leave it up to religion, specifically Christianity, to become a problem... aside my personal views, this chapter has broadened my understanding on the issue of categorizing and information sorting methods. For me the decimal system of Melvil Dewey mean absolutely nothing, I understand a number is assigned, but how does it get …

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Class work: SEARCHING for MENDELEEV, WHERE ARE YOU?

searching for: "Periodic Table of Elements" found a http://www.ptable.com site that shows an interactive table of elements which can be organized by properties, orbitals, and by isotopes.  Properties of each element are displayed in a zoom window which makes it easy to see the difference between the elements, when jut hovering over the table. chose …

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Reading Response to: “The New Order of Order” & “Alphabetization & Its Discontent”

Chapter 1 - "The New Order of Order" great first chapter! it talks about the three order of orders: Sorting, Cataloging and Digitizing. The bits define gravity, they are easier to search through and they are by far more sustainable then the first two ways of order. Everything has its place, every book, product, item, …

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