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Ep. #202 - Shannon Mattern
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic talk about the vine that’s taking over their house and then (12:30) we welcome the New School’s magnificent Shannon Mattern to the podcast We discuss her new book A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences (Princeton UP, 2021) which explores the limits of computational models for understanding knowledge in urban contexts. We begin with the deep history of urban intelligence and the role of cybernetics in offering computation as a universal analogy. We talk about other venerable tropes too, like the city as graft and the city as tree. We cover the limits of datafication to understand urban life. Does Shannon have a perfect urban dashboard model in mind? How much is big tech driving dashboardization and how much the charisma of universal representations? We talk failure and function, access as a tech panacea, smart cities, the politics of shade, libraries and kindred examples of “other urban intelligences.” Finally, we turn to the magic of Shannon’s Twitter work and how it informs her teaching. Enjoy
Pandora's Signal Boxes
No full textIncluded here, dear reader, is a discussion that took place between media and design author and scholar Shannon Mattern and perennial continent. probationer Jamie Allen. The conversation occurred on a rather rainy and cold day, on a walk that Shannon and Jamie took through Basel, Switzerland, toward the Central Signal Box building. Shannon Mattern had come to Switzerland at Jamie’s invitation, as part of a lecture series called “Medialogue”, held jointly by the Critical Media Lab Basel and the Medienwissenschaft group at Universität Basel. The Signal Box is an infrastructural landmark that delimits a transition between residential and (formerly) industrial zones in Kanton Basel-Stadt. The building was designed by locals, stalwart innovators and ‘starchitects’ Herzog and Herzog & de Meuron, whose numerous offices and archives in Basel are all but a few minutes’ tram-ride away.https://continentcontinent.cc/archives/issues/issue-5-3-2016/pandora-s-signal-boxe
Map Labs + Atlas
Full text linkCuratorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: In Shannon Mattern’s Maps as Media course, students produce a final portfolio of maps—an atlas—comprised of five different mapping approaches to one subject. The course asks students to “experiment with a variety of critical mapping tools and methods, from techniques of critical cartography to sensory mapping to time-lining, using both analog and digital approaches” (Mattern, “Maps as Media”). Students have produced atlases on politics in Sri Lanka, the body, counter-maps to the City of New York Police Department’s “locations of [Muslim] concern,” and every brewery in Brooklyn since 1840 (Mattern, “Final Projects”). In producing multiple mapped perspectives on one subject, students see the gaps between their iterations and learn the limitations of mapping: “not everything is mappable, and not everything belongs on a map” (Mattern, “Map as Metaphor”). Although this assignment is from a master’s-level course, it would scale to a project-based undergraduate course. Maps as Media course Web site (including student projects): www.wordsinspace.net/mapsmedia/fall2015/ Additional student examples: www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2013/12/18/mapping_gyros
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Professor Angela Shannon
No full textAngela Shannon shares her poetry with the Taylor community.
Angela Shannon is the author of Singing the Bones Together, a 2004 Minnesota Book Awards Finalist. She teaches English at Bethel University. Her work has been published in journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Where One Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry, and Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century. Her choreopoem Root Woman premiered at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater in Evanston, Ill
UA94/6/1/4 George Shannon Interview
Full text linkInterview of George Shannon, WKU Class of 1974, author of children\u27s books and storyteller regarding his books and visit to WKU in 1990
Interview with Elizabeth Janeway, author
No full textAuthor of The Walsh Girls, Man's World, and Woman's Place, Elizabeth Janeway is interviewed by Milwaukee TV and radio moderator Winifred Ryhn and Claudine Shannon, assistant professor of Community Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. She explores how societal attitudes are shaped and how they have determined the traditional roles of men and women.GrayscaleSoun
Great River Reading Series: Shannon Olson
No full textShannon Olson is the best-selling author of Welcome to My Planet and Children of God Go Bowling. With pathos, humor, and wit, Olson’s novels explore the angst of adjusting to the “real world” after college and her protagonist’s fraught attempts to separate from her over-involved mother, referred to by Garrison Keillor as “one of the great mothers of American fiction.” Olson directs the Creative Writing Program at St. Cloud State University. She has also taught at the University of Minnesota and at the Iowa Summer Writing Workshop and the Loft Literary Center
The Shannon capacity of graphs
No full textIn this thesis you will find an overview of the main results of Lovasz and Shannon, together with a substantial set of examples for which we have computed the Shannon capacity. Also, some graphs for which it is not possible to calculate the Shannon capacity are given.OptimizationElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Battle of the Shannon and Chesapeak
Full text linkA song about the Shannon versus the Chesapeake from the point of a British Sailor.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1658/thumbnail.jp
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