11 research outputs found
Slashdot, Open News and Informated Media: Exploring the Intersection of Imagined Futures and Web Publishing Technology
No full text"In this essay, my interest is in how imagined media futures are implicated in the work of producing novel web publishing technology. I explore the issue through an account of the emergence of Slashdot, the tech news and discussion site that by 1999 had implemented a number of recommendation features now associated with social media and web 2.0 platforms. Specifically, I aim to understand the connection between the development of Slashdot’s influential content-management system (CMS) - an elaborate publishing infrastructure called “Slash” that allowed editors to choose reader submissions for publication and automatically distributed the work of moderating the comments sections among trusted users - and two distinct visions of a web-enabled transformation of media production.
Estimation of the mechanical loading of the shoulder joint in daily conditions
No full textThe goal of this thesis is to assemble a method to estimate shoulder joint reaction forces, in daily conditions, based on long term collection of ambulatory measurable variables, to obtain the desired long term mechanical load profile of the shoulder. Chapter 2 examines, and discusses one of the general assumptions used in IMMS is: the homogeneousness of the earth magnetic field. Chapter 3 describes a method and its accuracy in obtaining anatomically interpretable coordinate systems for the segments of the upper extremity using only IMMS, under daily conditions. Chapter 4 describes an experiment in which the NN method is used to predict input for a musculoskeletal model, to obtain ambulatory joint loading in more detail. Chapter 5 explores the direct prediction of joint reaction forces at the glenohumeral head. Several factors which might influence the predictive power of neural networks are examined. In Chapter 6 the method is discussed on its strengths and weaknesses, and the feasibility for obtaining a detailed joint load profile under daily conditions. This chapter ends with future directions to improve the method or tailor it to more specific research questions.BioMechanical EngineeringMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
Kain - George H. Kain (1897)
No full textB.S.; M.S., 1900; Phi Delta Theta; Phi Beta Kappa. LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1902. Born Apr. 13, 1877, York. Son of W.H.K., class of 1871. Tutor, Gettysburg Academy, 1897-98; practicing Law, York, 1902- . Vice-president, York Trust Co. and York Water Co. Author: City Digest of York, Pa., 1906. Married Jan. 1, 1901, Cara Bahn Watt, York. Children: George Hay, b. Apr. 3, 1907; Richard Morgan, b. Dec. 19, 1908; William Henry, b. Sept. 23, 1912. Address: 45 E. Springettsburg Place, York. Handwritten on back: ""G. Hay Kain"
Real-Life Wheelchair Mobility Metrics from IMUs
No full textDaily wheelchair ambulation is seen as a risk factor for shoulder problems, which are prevalent in manual wheelchair users. To examine the long-term effect of shoulder load from daily wheelchair ambulation on shoulder problems, quantification is required in real-life settings. In this study, we describe and validate a comprehensive and unobtrusive methodology to derive clinically relevant wheelchair mobility metrics (WCMMs) from inertial measurement systems (IMUs) placed on the wheelchair frame and wheel in real-life settings. The set of WCMMs includes distance covered by the wheelchair, linear velocity of the wheelchair, number and duration of pushes, number and magnitude of turns and inclination of the wheelchair when on a slope. Data are collected from ten able-bodied participants, trained in wheelchair-related activities, who followed a 40 min course over the campus. The IMU-derived WCMMs are validated against accepted reference methods such as Smartwheel and video analysis. Intraclass correlation (ICC) is applied to test the reliability of the IMU method. IMU-derived push duration appeared to be less comparable with Smartwheel estimates, as it measures the effect of all energy applied to the wheelchair (including thorax and upper extremity movements), whereas the Smartwheel only measures forces and torques applied by the hand at the rim. All other WCMMs can be reliably estimated from real-life IMU data, with small errors and high ICCs, which opens the way to further examine real-life behavior in wheelchair ambulation with respect to shoulder loading. Moreover, WCMMs can be applied to other applications, including health tracking for individual interest or in therapy settings.Biomechatronics & Human-Machine ControlBiomechanical Engineerin
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (Chun, W.H.K.; 2008) [Book Review
No full textPoetic Machines: an investigation into the impact of the characteristics of the digital apparatus on poetic expression
No full textThis thesis aims to investigate digital methods of signification in order to examine the impact of the apparatus on poetic expression. This is done through a critical analysis of the translation process from analogue to digital, in the sense that even as we read a page we are in fact translating sight into sound. The resulting effects of this change in form are explored in order to understand their impact on meaning-making in the digital realm. Through this interrogation the comprehension and definition of ePoetry (electronic poetry or digital poetry) is extended, by exposing the unique affordances
and specificities of digital expression.
Digital poetry theorists such as Loss Pequeño Glazier posit that the emerging field of electronic literature is composed of interweaving strands from the areas of computer
science, sociology, and literary studies. This is reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of this thesis, which necessitates an engagement with the broad areas of translation, literature, and digital media studies. Currently the pervasiveness of digital technology
and access to the Internet means that the creation and consumption of online content such as ePoetry is becoming seamless and apparently effortless. Whilst recent studies
have explored electronic literature as a field, there is a noticeable deficit of research that specifically focuses on ePoetry, a deficit that this thesis seeks to rectify.
Within this work cybernetic and technosocial theories of communication are drawn on which provide as much emphasis on the apparatus, as is afforded to the author and
reader. Traditional poetry criticism is problematised with reference to its suitability for application to online works in order to develop a comprehensive ePoetry rhetoric
that explores not only what is being said, but also crucially how it is being said. Theories of translation are also used as a context in which to analyse the transposition
of poetry from analogue to digital. This framework then forms the basis for a study that explores the move from print to pixel by analysing qualitative ePoet interviews as
well as their corresponding ePoems
The Anti-Social Web
No full textThis panel uses a range of sites and populations to investigate anti-social practices around and within the community spaces of the Web. We focus on how the cultural common sense of an open Web built on sharing is framed against the danger of specific anti-social practices and how practices of openness and sharing rely on anti-social acts for their maintenance. Thus the dominant imaginary of the web as both frictionless free market and anti-hierarchical public sphere has always been positioned against the trolls, bots, and freaks resisting this vision, while practices of censorship, surveillance, and social engineering have been adopted in defense of this vision.
These tensions between open sociality, its disruption, and its regulation have been present since the opening of the commercial web in the early- to mid-1990s. US politicians and telecommunications corporations in that period promised that ‘cyberspace’ would be cleared of pornography and theft in order to ensure that it was safe and open for business. The threat of marketing cyberporn to potentially susceptible publics would be met with legislation such as Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), requiring all public access points receiving federal funding to install filtering software on their internet-connected PC’s (Jaeger & Zan, 2009). Simultaneously, MCI advertised cyberspace as an open zone of social and economic relations where bodily markers signifying past social divisions would disappear (e.g., the “Anthem” commercial advertising how online “there is no race”, “there is no gender”). This supported an emergent neoliberal political hegemony where any public insistence on the material effects of racism or sexism were themselves taken to be racist or sexist attacks on the ‘color-blind’ public sphere (Chun, 2006). These discourses circulating on and about the web are thus indicative of a new norm of sociality that takes old ideals of the open, democratic public sphere and repurposes them to support an economic infrastructure based on free flowing but data-mined information (Dean, 2003). Trolls, bots, spammers, porn freaks, and griefers use this open, free-flowing sociality transgressively to serve their own respective agendas and are thus a threat to the dominant political-economic order.
The rise of web 2.0 and social networking sites built on user-generated content re-centers the economic imperative of social openness and the political norms of social publicity. Here the profits of websites such as Facebook are always produced through uneven economic relations where users’ free labor becomes profitable data profiles through ubiquitous surveillance--the scope of which is hidden from most users (Anderjevic, 2012). Politically, we see reactions against the anti-social Web overlapping with offline liberal politics; including the way white, middle- and upper-class teenagers, many encouraged by parents, fled from MySpace to Facebook because the former encouraged media experimentation, heavily featured hip-hop culture, and, allegedly was overrun with sexual predators (boyd, 2012). In other words, mid-2000s MySpace was social, but not the right kind of social. The anti-social Web is thus both a set of infrastructural practices shaping a profitable, normative version of Web sociality, and a discourse against which those norms are constructed. The papers in the panel will argue that the anti-social web is not a bug in the system of the social web, but a constitutive feature of that system. To understand LambdaMOO, we must understand Mr. Bungle (Dibbell, 1998, p. 11-33). To understand ‘cyberspace’, we must understand cyberporn. To understand Facebook, we must understand the white flight from MySpace. And to understand Reddit, we must understand Violentacrez (Chen, 2012).
This panel explores how the anti-social web exists alongside the social web, as both a set of anti-social practices shaping a normative social space and a set of anti-social figures against which the liberal discourse of the web is defined. [Author’s 1] ethnography of urban public libraries explores how librarians regulate the links between internet access and social mobility, and how library patrons, many of them homeless, refuse those links when they watch porn, sleep, drink, or have sex in the library. [Author 2] explores how griefers' play has developed hacktivistic undertones and transformed into a strategy for negotiating privacy, transparency, and governance in virtual worlds. [Author 3] examines the phenomenon of ‘cloaked websites’ which hide their white supremacist or pro-life political agendas in order to influence naive Web users. And [Author 4] discusses the anti-democratic potential of ‘big data’ electoral campaigns, which use the data points generated in the putative public sphere of the web to engineer turnout rather than foster broader citizen engagement. With each of these papers, we see the anti-social web shaping the cultural common sense of the open, public social web--whether as a figure to be regulated in the name of norms of democratic publicity, or as a set of anti-democratic practices existing within those same norms.
2 (149-164). New York, NY: Routledge.
boyd, d. (2011). “White flight in networked publics? How race and class shaped American teen engagement with MySpace and Facebook.” In L. Nakamura & P.A. Chow-White (eds.) 2 . Retrieved from http://gawker.com/5950981/
Chun, W.H.K. (2008) 2 10(1), 95-112.
Dibbell, J. (1998). 2 New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.
Jaeger, P. T., & Yan, Z. (2009). One law with two outcomes: Comparing the implementation of the Children’s Internet Protection Act in public libraries and public schools. 2 , 28(1), 8-16.
MCI, Inc. (1997). “Anthem”. Retrieved at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioVMoeCbri
Dimensions of online conflict: towards modeling agonism
No full textAgonism plays a vital role in democratic dialogue by fostering diverse perspectives and robust discussions. Within the realm of online conflict there is another type: hateful antagonism, which undermines constructive dialogue. Detecting conflict online is central to platform moderation and monetization. It is also vital for democratic dialogue, but only when it takes the form of agonism. To model these two types of conflict, we collected Twitter conversations related to trending controversial topics. We introduce a comprehensive annotation schema for labelling different dimensions of conflict in the conversations, such as the source of conflict, the target, and the rhetorical strategies deployed. Using this schema, we annotated approximately 4,000 conversations with multiple labels. We then train both logistic regression and transformer-based models on the dataset, incorporating context from the conversation, including the number of participants and the structure of the interactions. Results show that contextual labels are helpful in identifying conflict and make the models robust to variations in topic. Our research contributes a conceptualization of different dimensions of conflict, a richly annotated dataset, and promising results that can contribute to content moderation
International handbook of earthquake and engineering seismology /
No full textThe two volume International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology represents the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior's (IASPEI) ambition to provide a comprehensive overview of our present knowledge of earthquakes and seismology. This state-of-the-art work is the only reference to cover all aspects of seismology--a "resource library" for civil and structural engineers, geologists, geophysicists, and seismologists in academia and industry around the globe. Part B, by more than 100 leading researchers from major institutions of science around the globe, features 34 chapters detailing strong-motion seismology, earthquake engineering, quake prediction and hazards mitigation, as well as detailed reports from more than 40 nations. Includes chapters and CD-ROM-based content detailing practical resources for seismologists, including additional materials from the printed chapters, a compilation of earthquake catalogs around the world, a global earthquake database with search and display software, selected software for earthquake and engineering seismology, and digital imagery of faults, earthquakes, volcanoes and their effects. Also available is The International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, Part A. * Authoritative articles by more than 100 leading scientists * Extensive glossary of terminology plus 2000+ biographical sketches of notable seismologists.The two volume International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology represents the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior's (IASPEI) ambition to provide a comprehensive overview of our present knowledge of earthquakes and seismology. This state-of-the-art work is the only reference to cover all aspects of seismology--a "resource library" for civil and structural engineers, geologists, geophysicists, and seismologists in academia and industry around the globe. Part B, by more than 100 leading researchers from major institutions of science around the globe, features 34 chapters detailing strong-motion seismology, earthquake engineering, quake prediction and hazards mitigation, as well as detailed reports from more than 40 nations. Includes chapters and CD-ROM-based content detailing practical resources for seismologists, including additional materials from the printed chapters, a compilation of earthquake catalogs around the world, a global earthquake database with search and display software, selected software for earthquake and engineering seismology, and digital imagery of faults, earthquakes, volcanoes and their effects. Also available is The International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, Part A. * Authoritative articles by more than 100 leading scientists * Extensive glossary of terminology plus 2000+ biographical sketches of notable seismologists.PART VII. Strong-Motion Seismology -- 57. Strong-Motion Seismology (J.G. Anderson) -- 58. Strong-Motion Data Processing (A.F. Shakal, M.J. Huang, and V.M. Graizer) -- 59. Estimation of Strong Seismic Ground Motions (B.A. Bolt and N.A. Abrahamson) -- 60. Strong-Motion Attenuation Relations (K.W. Campbell) -- 61. Site Effects of Strong Ground Motions (H. Kawase) -- 62. Use of Engineering Seismology Tools in Ground Shaking Scenarios (E. Faccioli and V. Pessina) -- 63. Kyoshin Net (K-NET), Japan (S. Kinoshita) -- 64. Strong-motion Instrumentation Programs in Taiwan (T.C. Shin, Y.B. Tsai, Y.T. Yeh, C.C. Liu and Y.M. Wu) -- PART VIII. Selected Topics in Earthquake Engineering -- 65. Seismic Hazards and Risk Assessment in Engineering Practice (P. Somerville and Y. Moriwaki) -- 66. Advances in Seismology with Impact on Earthquake Engineering (S.K. Singh, M. Ordaz, and J.F. Pacheco) -- 67. An Introduction to the Earthquake Response of Structures (P.C. Jennings) -- 68. Seismic Design Provisions and Guidelines in the United States: a prologue (R.D. Borcherdt, R.O. Hamburger, and C.A. Kircher) -- 69. Finite Element Analysis in Earthquake Engineering (J.F. Hall) -- 70. Liquefaction Mechanisms and Induced Ground Failure (T.L. Youd) -- 71. Advances in Analysis of Soil Liquefaction during Earthquakes (J-P Bardet) -- PART IX. Earthquake Prediction and Hazards Mitigation -- 72. Earthquake Prediction: an overview (H. Kanamori) -- 73. Stress Triggers, Stress Shadows, and Seismic Hazard (R.A. Harris) -- 74. The GSHAP Global Seismic Hazard Map (D. Giardini, G. Gruenthal, K. Shedlock, and P. Zhang) -- 75. The Sociological Dimensions of Earthquake Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery (P.W. O'Brien and D.S. Mileti) -- 76. The Seismic Alert System of Mexico City (J.M. Espinosa-Aranda) -- 77. The Rapid Earthquake Data Integration Project (L. Gee, D. Neuhauser, D. Dreger, M. Pasyanos, R. Uhrhammer, and B. Romanowicz) -- 78. TriNet: a modern ground motion seismic network (E. Hauksson, L.M. Jones, A.F. Shakal) -- PART X. National and International Reports to IASPEI -- 79. Centennial National and Institutional Reports: Seismology (edited by C. Kisslinger) -- 80. Centennial National and Institutional Reports: Earthquake Engineering (edited by S. Cherry) -- 81. International Reports to IASPI (edited by C. Kisslinger) -- PART XI. General Information and Miscellaneous Data -- 82. Statistical Principles for Seismologists (D. Vere-Jones and Y. Ogata) -- 83. Seismic Velocities and Densities of Rocks (N.I. Christensen and D. Stanley) -- 84. Worldwide Nuclear Explosions (X. Yang, R. North, C. Romney, and P.G. Richards) -- 85. Seismological Software (edited by A. Snoke and M. Garcia-Fernandez) -- * 85.1 Earthquake Seismology Software: Overview (J.A. Snoke and M. Garcia-Fernandez) -- * 85.2 The IASPEI Software Library (W.H.K. Lee) -- * 85.3 The IASPEI PC Shareware Library (M. Garcia-Fernandez) -- * 85.4 ORFEUS Seismological Software Library (T. van Eck, B. Dost, and M. Baer) -- * 85.5 SAC2000: Signal Processing and Analysis Tools for Seismologists and Engineers (P. Goldstein, D. Dodge, and M. Firpo) -- * 85.6 SEISAN Earthquake Analysis Software and SEISNET Network Automation Software (J. Havskov and L. Ottemoeller) -- * 85.7 The HYPOELLIPSE Earthquake Location Program (J. Lahr and J.A. Snoke) -- * 85.8 The HYPOINVESE2000 Earthquake Location Program (F. Klein) -- * 85.9 Software for Joint Hypocenter Determination Using Local Events (J. Pujol) -- * 85.10 Synthetic Seismogram Calculation Using the Reflectivity Method (B. Kennett) -- * 85.11 TDMT_INV: Time Domain Seismic Moment Tensor Inversion (D. Dreger) -- * 85.12 FOCMEC: FOcal MEChanism Determinations (J.A. Snoke) -- * 85.13 SMSIM: Stochastic Method SIMulation of Ground Motion from Earthquakes (D. Boore) -- * 85.14 Software for Calculating Earthquake Ground Motions from Finite Faults in Vertically Varying Media (P. Spudich and L. Xu) -- * 85.15 Nonlinear Inversion by Direct Search Using the Neighbourhood Algorithm (M. Sambridge) -- 86. The FDSN and IRIS Data Management System: providing easy access to terabytes of Information (T.K. Ahern) -- 87. An Inventory of Data from Seismographic Networks of the World (edited by J.C. Lahr) -- 88. Old Seismic Bulletins: a collective heritage from early seismologists (J. Schweitzer and W.H.K. Lee) -- 89. Biographies of Notable Earthquake Scientists and Engineers (edited by B.F. Howell) -- 90. Digital Imagery of Faults and Volcanoes (compiled by M.J. Rymer and D.E. Wieprecht) -- User Guide to the IASPEI Handbook CD-ROMs (M.F. Diggles and W.H.K. Lee) -- Technical Glossary of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology (edited by K. Aki) -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Attached CDs.Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Print version record.Elsevie
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Technological impact on the art of moviemaking: deploying new and convergent media to redefine a model for Pakistan’s cinema
No full textThis thesis examines the decline in Pakistani cinema during the last two decades. It examines the history of the cinema and exposes some possible, previously ignored, causes for that decline. This research led the author to ask “Can new and convergent media be helpful in reviving the Pakistani cinema?” The thesis introduces the ideas of established and emergent cinema, building on the work of Williams (1977) in discussing the ideas of dominant, residual and emergent culture. The exploration reveals two gaps in the film industry: first, the lack of training in the making of films; and, second, the change in possible production methods allowed by new and emergent technologies. The thesis addresses both of these gaps by suggesting new production paradigms which incorporate the new technology and by examining two scripts to develop methodologies for teaching. The scripts are produced into films as the practice section of the research. The first film, creative element 1, is developed using some of the new tehnologies, students as crew and the available resources of an educational establishment to test the methodologies that have been derived. The outcomes of the creative element 1 laid the foundation of the second film, creative element 2. It is shot on mobile phones and distributed from Pakistan through Vimeo with a negligible budget. The social networks helped to arrange equipment and locations and allowed extreme freedom to the filmmaker
