Review One Guided Tour

May 7 2009, 5:12pm

Welcome to a review of my first year of work as a Design MFA student at the University of Texas at Austin. I hope to base a discussion around my research statement and  the following:

Work critical in arriving to my current focus:

The Popular Podcast: an exploration of content generation, privacy, ethics, methodology and production techniques (see episode #6: you don't get the internet, #7: what is a podcast?, #10: what is lightweight social media?)

The Church of Internetology: execution of research map via performance

Flickr self portrait daily practice: observation of niche paricipants in a social network

Teaching assistantship in design history: design thinking with code; social media and teaching

Current focus:

Lifestream project (this site): investigating methods and consequences

12seconds daily practice: information filtering (see this vs. this)

In progress digitism research and Wikipedia article: promoting the digital encoding of reality

Digitism Taxonomy: visual communication in a virtual world

Future trajectory:

• Intellectual Property and scholarly publishing paper
• Summer study in communication policy and shifting paradigms in society with Dr. Sharon Strover
• Summer study of lifestream design in Second Life with Riley Triggs
• Summer study of research and learning via lifestream in Second Life with Dr. Leslie Jarmon
• Collaboration with computer science in lifestream software design?
• Collaboration with TACC in lifestream data visualization?