liveness [is52026b social computing - week 13]

8/3/2019 Liveness [IS52026B Social computing - week 13]

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IS52026 Social ComputingWeek 13: liveness

dan mcquillan

QUESTION:What is live?Realtime?Liveness..?


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http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/

WEEK 3 SOCIAL NETWORKS

http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/

http://twistori.com/#i_love

Information is increasingly being distributed and

presented in real time streams instead ofdedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even ifit is only in its early stages... The stream is windingits way throughout the Web and organizing it bynowness (Schonfeld 2009)

QUESTION: do you think so? How will it be

organised?


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By Andrew Liszewski

WEEK 9 SOCIAL BUSINESS

bakery = nowness


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https://demo.geckoboard.com/dashboard/B6782E562794C2F2/

(via http://www.geckoboard.com/)

also: sentiment analysis


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Gatorade has a created a dedicated control centerwhere they can listen to their audience, see trendsand conversation spikes, and respond in real-time.

QUESTION: how would you respond to negativecomments?

"The presence of real-time information in an

organization doesnt make it a real-timeorganization" @cshirky

c.f. WEEK 10 SOCIAL BUSINESS All OrganizationsAre Social, But Few Are Social Organizations


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Of course, the user becomes a source of data too,essentially a real-time stream themselves, feedingtheir own narrative data stream into the cloud,

which is itself analysed, aggregated, and fed backto the user and other users as patterns of data.

Berry

Human Sensors

PSFKhttp://www.psfk.com/publishing/future-of-real-time

Uksnow http://uksnowmap.com/VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=5bgrn17udUs

QUESTION; what other kinds of collated self-reporting could be useful?


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http://www.sickweather.com/


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harassmap WEEK 4


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Copenhagen wheel

Inside the hub, we have arranged a motor,3-speed internal hub gear, batteries, a torque sensor,

GPRS and a sensor kit that monitors CO, NOx,noise (db), relative humidity and temperature.

Simply place your phone on the handlebars, and its

Bluetooth module syncs with the Bluetooth modulein the hub of the Copenhagen Wheel.

You can then use your phone and our CopenhagenWheel Application to unlock and lock your bike,change gears, select how much the motor assistsyou and for viewing relevant real-time information.

http://senseable.mhit.edu/copenhagenwheel/VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=S7y3qIQu3Gc


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CartogramANEW word listhttp://mashable.com/2010/07/21/twitter-moods-map/VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=ujcrJZRSGkg


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CholeraAccording to the study published in the American Journal of

Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Internet news and socialmedia were faster transmitters of information in trackingthe cholera epidemic in Haiti than health officials. Thetweets provided information that health officials wouldntreport until two weeks later.

To conduct the study, the researchers created a timeline bysearching for the term cholera and the #cholera hashtag

on Twitter from Oct. 20 to Nov. 3, 2010. In the two weeksbefore health officials reported the outbreak, 65,728tweets with the word cholera were posted on Twitter.

Of course, theres a downside to social media reporting ofepidemics as well. Tweets about swine flu in 2009created a panic on Twitter while actual cases were at thelowest number.

http://mashable.com/2012/01/10/twitter-epidemic-choler-haiti/

http://www.ajtmh.org/content/86/1/39.full


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http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention

Mobile WEEK 11 DATA


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http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/OPEN DATA


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AIS transponders on board vessels include a GPS (GlobalPositioning System) receiver, which collects position and

movement details. It includes also a VHF transmitter,which transmits periodically this information on two VHFchannels (frequencies 161.975 MHz and 162.025 MHz old VHF channels 87 & 88)

Normally, vessels with an AIS receiver connected to anexternal antenna placed on 15 meters above sea level,will receive AIS information within a range of 15-20

nautical miles. Base stations at a higher elevation, mayextend the range up to 40-60 nm

Our base stations are equipped with an AIS receiver, a PCand an Internet connection. The AIS unit receives data,which are processed by simple software on the PC andthen sent to a central database by means of a webservice. This software is free for anyone interested,under a GNU license. (Read section 'Cover your Area' formore information on how to install your own AIS basestation).

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?centerx=30&centery=25&zoom=2&level1=140


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http://www.buschecker.com/

Bus checker WEEK 11 DATA


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http://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/nowcast.asp?species=PM10&LayerStrength=75&lat=51.5008010864&lon=-0.124632000923&zoom=14

QUESTION: what other kinds of sensors would beuseful?


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Twitter is the most visible symptom of this transitorytendency. Who responds to yesterday'sreferences? History is something to get rid of.Silicon Valley is gearing up for the colonization ofreal-time, away from the static web "page" that stillrefers to the newspaper.

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-03-18-lovink-en.html

Much like in finance, the media industry is exploringpossibilities to maximize surplus value from theexploitation of milliseconds.


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from @mosaaberizing

Bambuser

http://bambuser.com/channel/RamyRaoof/broadcast/1719509

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/nprs-andy-carvin-uses-secretly-streamed-video-to-live-tweet-clashes-in-

egypt/2011/05/16/AF4Zii4G_blog.html


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http://occupystreams.org/


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All rights reserved by t-radya

The Russian elections crossed the tipping point betweenthe scale of falsifications and the scale of citizen based

reporting. The crowd of Russian networked citizens wasable to collect, post and share a critical mass of reportsabout falsifications. It included not only stories, but alsodocuments, photo and video reports. Following theelections, User (Against the party of crooks and thieves) even set a YouTube playlist of 60most viewed videos of violations.

Far-reaching coverage cant emerge without massivefalsifications, but what has really changed in the Russiancase wasnt the scale of falsification, but the capacity of anetworked crowd to cover these falsifications in a waythat will reach the tipping point for the election'slegitimacy.

SHOW http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL71CFAF81D61AFB83


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TWITTER TIMELINEHere, then, we see the movement or translation

between the temporal generation of the discreteelements of the stream and the computa- tionalstorage through what Kittler calls time axismanipulation. This is the storing of time as space,and allows the linear flow to be recorded and thenreordered. The shifting from chronological time to

the spatial representation means that things canbe replayed and even reversed, this is thediscretisation of the continuous flow of time.

Berry

The Flow Past web.http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/08/flow-past-web-

even-better-than-realtime.html


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Auslander defines liveness in terms of intimacy and immediacy ofthe perceptual experience. There is a temporal and spatial

relationship implied by the two concepts.

Modern technologies make simultaneous presence and absencepossible by providing a combination of qualities of both the liveand the recorded, the immediate and the mediated. As such theyproblematize the binary oppositions on which dominant notionsof representation are based, live/recorded and the relatedoppositions event/representation or original copy

Liveness is the sense of living presence. This often involves thesense of a presence that is elsewhere, where actions areregistered simultaneously across different spaces (geographical,operational, perceptual, disciplinary....)4.

With faster Interent in our homes and offices, the televisualexperience becomes as immediate and intimate as television,but with the added value of interactiveness beyond changing

the channel. Agency, defined by interactiveness in this context,becomes a key concept of the WWWs cultural dominance.

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