Art History in Digital Dimensions: A Report on the Proceedings of the Symposium Held in October 2016 at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. and the University of Maryland, College Park

The symposium “Art History in Digital Dimensions” held at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. and the University of Maryland, College Park in October 2016 brought together an international, multigenerational group of forty‐five academics, museum and cultural heritage professionals, information scientists, publishers, conservators, and program and grant officers to discuss the current state of digital art history and develop a roadmap for the future practice of the field. The three‐day event, organized by the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland and sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Getty Foundation, comprised an interactive agenda featuring roundtables and breakout working groups that addressed core and concerns posed by the incorporation of computational tools and analytical techniques into the study of art history. This format encouraged participants to articulate the challenges and benefits that digitally‐inflected, data‐driven practices offered their own research, teaching, conservation work, and publications and determine strategies to address these opportunities effectively.Samuel H. Kress Foundation The Getty Foundatio

Case-Based Argumentation in Agent Societies

Hoy en día los sistemas informáticos complejos se pueden ven en términos de los servicios que ofrecen y las entidades que interactúan para proporcionar o consumir dichos servicios. Los sistemas multi-agente abiertos, donde los agentes pueden entrar o salir del sistema, interactuar y formar grupos (coaliciones de agentes u organizaciones) de forma dinámica para resolver problemas, han sido propuestos como una tecnología adecuada para implementar este nuevo paradigma informático. Sin embargo, el amplio dinamismo de estos sistemas requiere que los agentes tengan una forma de armonizar los conflictos que surgen cuando tienen que colaborar y coordinar sus actividades. En estas situaciones, los agentes necesitan un mecanismo para argumentar de forma eficiente (persuadir a otros agentes para que acepten sus puntos de vista, negociar los términos de un contrato, etc.) y poder llegar a acuerdos. La argumentación es un medio natural y efectivo para abordar los conflictos y contradicciones del conocimiento. Participando en diálogos argumentativos, los agentes pueden llegar a acuerdos con otros agentes. En un sistema multi-agente abierto, los agentes pueden formar sociedades que los vinculan a través de relaciones de dependencia. Estas relaciones pueden surgir de sus interacciones o estar predefinidas por el sistema. Además, los agentes pueden tener un conjunto de valores individuales o sociales, heredados de los grupos a los que pertenecen, que quieren promocionar. Las dependencias entre los agentes y los grupos a los que pertenecen y los valores individuales y sociales definen el contexto social del agente. Este contexto tiene una influencia decisiva en la forma en que un agente puede argumentar y llegar a acuerdos con otros agentes. Por tanto, el contexto social de los agentes debería tener una influencia decisiva en la representación computacional de sus argumentos y en el proceso de gestión de argumentos.Heras Barberá, SM. (2011). Case-Based Argumentation in Agent Societies [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/12497Palanci

Visual Social Media and Vernacular Responses to Environmental Issues in China

This thesis investigates the role of visual social media in providing ordinary Chinese with an alternative space to articulate their opinions on environmental issues. By studying three notable environmental cases, this thesis explores how ordinary Chinese adopt visual social media practices as a response to environmental issues, and to aid in the fight for environmental justice. This thesis provides a new perspective to understand China’s visual social media practices and its networked civic engagement

Persuasion in Public Discourse

This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee’s intellectual and emotional capacities in a competing public environment. The aim is to investigate persuasive strategies from the overlapping perspectives of cognitive and functional linguistics. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses of authentic data (including English, Czech, Spanish, Slovene, Russian, and Hungarian) are grounded in the frameworks of functional grammar, facework and rapport management, classical rhetoric studies and multimodal discourse analysis and are linked to the constructs of (re)framing, conceptual metaphor and blending, mental space and viewpoint. In addition to traditional genres such as political speeches, news reporting, and advertising, the book also studies texts that examine book reviews, medieval medical recipes, public complaints or anonymous viral videos. Apart from discourse analysts, pragmaticians and cognitive linguists, this book will appeal to cognitive musicologists, semioticians, historical linguists and scholars of related disciplines

The Web of Corruption:A Tardean Analysis of the Shifting Constructions of the Elios Scandal in the Hungarian Online News Media

Although corruption portrayals within the news media have become a regularly analysed topic in Organisation and Management Studies, the construction of scandals within the online realm is still under-researched. Organisational scholars call for studies to analyse corruption in online media due to the highly participatory sense- making processes that distinguish this context from traditional press. Analysing scandalisation online is important because interactions in this realm define and curb corruption.This thesis responds to these points by exploring the co-production of corruption scandals within online news articles as occurring through narrative developments and hyperlink relations. To address the processual and participatory aspects of online corruption scandalisation, it engages with the theories of Gabriel Tarde. Particularly, the Tardean lens allows this thesis to analyse articles with their embedded hyperlinks as sense-making crossroads of information flows that accumulate into the rhythmical meanderings of scandal narratives.Empirically, the thesis focuses on the Hungarian organisational and political Elios scandal. It investigates the articles of the news outlets of Origo and Index, and their hyperlinks. Thematic analysis is used for studying the textual data, and argumentation analysis for the hyperlink interactions.This results in the identification of three narrative-construction periods: (1) scandalisation, (2) anti-scandalisation and moderation, and (3) counter- scandalisation. The thesis shows that hyperlinks play an important role in these meaning constructions. On the one hand, hyperlinks represent online sense-making channels, leading to reliable and relevant sources. However, through the avoidance of hyperlinking opposing arguments, these contribute to one-sided, meaning- constructions. Furthermore, the thesis demonstrates how the corruption scandal is gradually diverted and replaced with the sensationalist counter-scandalising Soros- narrative that provokes social currents, such as Antisemitism. Overall, this thesis contributes to the literature on corruption within the media by illustrating how hyperlinks and gradual narrative-developments are strategically used to shape the meaning-constructions around scandals

Obesity prevention policies : the art and science of ending an epidemic

La recherche sur le processus politique en relation avec la prévention de l'obésité s’appuie rarement sur des fondements théoriques. La plupart des études présentées dans la littérature ne parviennent pas à expliquer les décisions politiques. Les réponses aux questions sur le comment et le pourquoi de l'élaboration des politiques demeurent méconnues. En raison de l'attention politique accrue au phénomène de la « globésité », de nombreux gouvernements ont tenté d'intervenir pour arrêter ou inverser le cours de l'épidémie de l’obésité. Un écart est évident entre les recommandations et le contexte politique qui prévaut en raison de la « cacophonie politique » qui caractérise celle de l'obésité. Nous avons mené une étude de cas pour expliquer l’élaboration et l'adoption du plan d'action gouvernemental (PAG) sur la prévention des problèmes reliés au poids et la promotion de saines habitudes de vie, adopté en 2006 sur une durée de six ans au Québec, Canada. Nous avons élaboré un cadre conceptuel innovant combinant le cadre des coalitions plaidantes avec un modèle d'analyse politique basé sur la théorie de l'acteur stratégique. Nous avons mené des entrevues semi-dirigées et ouvertes avec des informateurs clés de divers ministères et institutions gouvernementales et non gouvernementales impliqués dans le plaidoyer et l’élaboration du PAG. Les documents relatifs à la politique ont complété nos sources de données. Nos résultats ont montré que l'adoption de la politique était le résultat de facteurs politiques et contextuels interdépendants et d'événements majeurs, associés à des politiques et stratégies axées sur les objectifs qui ont contribué à un accord négocié entre les coalitions. L'ensemble du processus a été influencé par l'utilisation systématique des connaissances par les coalitions et l'apprentissage au sein de forums délibératifs démocratiques qui a contribué à surmonter la « cacophonie politique ». Le plaidoyer d’un groupe de réflexion a fait avancer le processus en modifiant le discours dominant sur la politique et en sensibilisant les parties prenantes. Les théories du processus politique sont des outils puissants pour étudier la complexité de la prise de décision, expliquer le changement de politique ainsi que l'inaction face aux problèmes complexes. Il est nécessaire de mieux outiller les acteurs des politiques de santé publique pour qu'ils comprennent mieux le processus d'élaboration des politiques. Cette étude de cas informera les décideurs, les bureaucrates, les professionnels de la santé publique et autres professionnels intéressés à faire progresser les politiques de prévention de l'obésité. Les recherches futures devraient viser à promouvoir une analyse prospective de l'élaboration des politiques pour mieux en influencer le plaidoyer et, ainsi, faire progresser le processus politique. La comparaison de politiques similaires entre les provinces et de politiques différentes, mais interdépendantes au sein d'une même province est une autre avenue prometteuse pour la future recherche sur les processus politiques.Theory grounded research on the policy process related to obesity prevention is limited. Most of the existing research fails to explain policy decisions. The how and why of policy making remain unanswered. Owing to the increased political attention to “globesity”, many governments have attempted to intervene to halt or reverse the obesity epidemic. There is a gap between policy recommendations and the prevailing policy environment owing to the “policy cacophony” that characterises obesity policy. We used a case study research design to explain the development and the adoption of a six-year Governmental Action Plan (GAP) on the prevention of weight-related problems and the promotion of healthy lifestyles in Quebec, Canada. We developed an innovative conceptual framework combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework with a political analysis model based on the theory of the strategic actor. We conducted semi-structured open-ended interviews with key informants from various governmental and non-governmental departments and institutions involved in GAP advocacy and development. Policy related documents completed our data sources. Our findings showed that policy adoption was the result of interrelated political and contextual factors and focusing events, intertwined with policy and goal-oriented strategies that contributed to a negotiated agreement between advocacy coalitions. The whole process was influenced by systematic knowledge utilization by coalitions and learning within democratic deliberative forums that helped overcome “policy cacophony”. The advocacy of a think tank advanced the process through changing the dominant policy narrative and altering policy stakeholders’ awareness. Policy process theories are powerful tools to study the complexity of decision-making, explain policy change as well as inaction on complex policy issues. There is a need to better equip public health policy stakeholders with an improved understanding of the policy making process. This case study will inform policy makers, bureaucrats, public health professionals and other professionals interested in advancing obesity prevention policies. Future research should aim to promote prospective analysis of policy making to further inform policy advocacy and advance the policy process. Comparing similar policies across jurisdictions, and different yet interrelated policies within the same jurisdiction is another avenue for future policy process research

Collective intelligence: creating a prosperous world at peace

XXXII, 612 p. ; 24 cmLibro ElectrónicoEn este documento se plantea un tema de interes general mas como lo es especificamente el tema de la evolucion de la sociedad en materia de industria y crecimiento de las actividades humanas en el aspecto de desarrollo de la creatividad enfocada a los mercadosedited by Mark Tovey ; foreword by Yochai Benkler (re-mixed by Hassan Masum) ; prefaces by Thomas Malone, Tom Atlee & Pierre Levy ; afterword by Paul Martin & Thomas Homer-Dixon.The era of collective intelligence has begun in earnest. While others have written about the wisdom of crowds, an army of Davids, and smart mobs, this collection of essays for the first time brings together fifty-five pioneers in the emerging discipline of collective intelligence. They provide a base of tools for connecting people, producing high-functioning teams, collaborating at multiple scales, and encouraging effective peer-production. Emerging models are explored for digital deliberative democracy, self-governance, legislative transparency, true-cost accounting, and the ethical use of open sources and methods. Collective Intelligence is the first of a series of six books, which will also include volumes on Peace Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, and Global Intelligence.Table of Contents Dedication i Publisher’s Preface iii Foreword by Yochai Benkler Remix Hassan Masum xi The Wealth of Networks: Highlights remixed Editor’s Preface xxi Table of Contents xxv A What is collective intelligence and what will we do 1 about it? (Thomas W. Malone, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence) B Co-Intelligence, collective intelligence, and conscious 5 evolution (Tom Atlee, Co-Intelligence Institute) C A metalanguage for computer augmented collective 15 intelligence (Prof. Pierre Lévy, Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence, FRSC) I INDIVIDUALS & GROUPS I-01 Foresight I-01-01 Safety Glass (Karl Schroeder, science fiction author 23 and foresight consultant) I-01-02 2007 State of the Future (Jerome C. Glenn & 29 Theodore J. Gordon, United Nations Millennium Project) I-02 Dialogue & Deliberation I-02-01 Thinking together without ego: Collective intelligence 39 as an evolutionary catalyst (Craig Hamilton and Claire Zammit, Collective-Intelligence.US) I-02-02 The World Café: Awakening collective intelligence 47 and committed action (Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and the World Café Community) I-02-03 Collective intelligence and the emergence of 55 wholeness (Peggy Holman, Nexus for Change, The Change Handbook) I-02-04 Knowledge creation in collective intelligence (Bruce 65 LaDuke, Fortune 500, HyperAdvance.com) I-02-05 The Circle Organization: Structuring for collective 75 wisdom (Jim Rough, Dynamic Facilitation & The Center for Wise Democracy) I-03 Civic Intelligence I-03-01 Civic intelligence and the public sphere (Douglas 83 Schuler, Evergreen State College, Public Sphere Project) I-03-02 Civic intelligence and the security of the homeland 95 (John Kesler with Carole and David Schwinn, IngeniusOnline) I-03-03 Creating a Smart Nation (Robert Steele, OSS.Net) 107 I-03-04 University 2.0: Informing our collective intelligence 131 (Nancy Glock-Grueneich, HIGHEREdge.org) I-03-05 Producing communities of communications and 145 foreknowledge (Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz, Reconfigure.org) I-03-06 Global Vitality Report 2025: Learning to transform I-04 Electronic Communities & Distributed Cognition I-04-01 Attentional capital and the ecology of online social 163 conflict and think together effectively (Peter+Trudy networks (Derek Lomas, Social Movement Lab, Johnson-Lenz, Johnson-Lenz.com ) UCSD) I-04-02 A slice of life in my virtual community (Howard 173 Rheingold, Whole Earth Review, Author & Educator) I-04-03 Shared imagination (Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart, 197 Bootstrap) I-05 Privacy & Openness I-05-01 We’re all swimming in media: End-users must be able 201 to keep secrets (Mitch Ratcliffe, BuzzLogic & Tetriad) I-05-02 Working openly (Lion Kimbro, Programmer and 205 Activist) I-06 Integral Approaches & Global Contexts I-06-01 Meta-intelligence for analyses, decisions, policy, and 213 action: The Integral Process for working on complex issues (Sara Nora Ross, Ph.D. ARINA & Integral Review) I-06-02 Collective intelligence: From pyramidal to global 225 (Jean-Francois Noubel, The Transitioner) I-06-03 Cultivating collective intelligence: A core leadership 235 competence in a complex world (George Pór, Fellow at Universiteit van Amsterdam) II LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATION II-01 Altruism, Group IQ, and Adaptation II-01-01 Empowering individuals towards collective online 245 production (Keith Hopper, KeithHopper.com) II-01-02 Who’s smarter: chimps, baboons or bacteria? The 251 power of Group IQ (Howard Bloom, author) II-01-03 A collectively generated model of the world (Marko 261 A. Rodriguez, Los Alamos National Laboratory) II-02 Crowd Wisdom and Cognitive Bias II-02-01 Science of CI: Resources for change (Norman L 265 Johnson, Chief Scientist at Referentia Systems, former LANL) II-02-02 Collectively intelligent systems (Jennifer H. Watkins, 275 Los Alamos National Laboratory) II-02-03 A contrarian view (Jaron Lanier, scholar-in-residence, 279 CET, UC Berkeley & Discover Magazine) II-03 Semantic Structures & The Semantic Web II-03-01 Information Economy Meta Language (Interview with 283 Professor Pierre Lévy, by George Pór) II-03-02 Harnessing the collective intelligence of the World- 293 Wide Web (Nova Spivack, RadarNetworks, Web 3.0) II-03-03 The emergence of a global brain (Francis Heylighen, 305 Free University of Brussels) II-04 Information Networks II-04-01 Networking and mobilizing collective intelligence (G. Parker Rossman, Future of Learning Pioneer) II-04-02 Toward high-performance organizations: A strategic 333 role for Groupware (Douglas C. Engelbart, Bootstrap) II-04-03 Search panacea or ploy: Can collective intelligence 375 improve findability? (Stephen E. Arnold, Arnold IT, Inc.) II-05 Global Games, Local Economies, & WISER II-05-01 World Brain as EarthGame (Robert Steele and many 389 others, Earth Intelligence Network) II-05-02 The Interra Project (Jon Ramer and many others) 399 II-05-03 From corporate responsibility to Backstory 409 Management (Alex Steffen, Executive Editor, Worldchanging.com) II-05-04 World Index of Environmental & Social 413 Responsibility (WISER) By the Natural Capital Institute II-06 Peer-Production & Open Source Hardware II-06-01 The Makers’ Bill of Rights (Jalopy, Torrone, and Hill) 421 II-06-02 3D Printing and open source design (James Duncan, 423 VP of Technology at Marketingisland) II-06-03 REBEARTHTM: 425 II-07 Free Wireless, Open Spectrum, and Peer-to-Peer II-07-01 Montréal Community Wi-Fi (Île Sans Fil) (Interview 433 with Michael Lenczner by Mark Tovey) II-07-02 The power of the peer-to-peer future (Jock Gill, 441 Founder, Penfield Gill Inc.) Growing a world 6.6 billion people would want to live in (Marc Stamos, B-Comm, LL.B) II-07-03 Open spectrum (David Weinberger) II-08 Mass Collaboration & Large-Scale Argumentation II-08-01 Mass collaboration, open source, and social 455 entrepreneurship (Mark Tovey, Advanced Cognitive Engineering Lab, Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University) II-08-02 Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon (Hassan 467 Masum, McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health) II-08-03 Achieving collective intelligence via large-scale argumentation (Mark Klein, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence) II-08-04 Scaling up open problem solving (Hassan Masum & 485 Mark Tovey) D Afterword: The Internet and the revitalization of 495 democracy (The Rt. Honourable Paul Martin & Thomas Homer-Dixon) E Epilogue by Tom Atlee 513 F Three Lists 515 1. Strategic Reading Categories 2. Synopsis of the New Progressives 3. Fifty-Two Questions that Matter G Glossary 519 H Index 52

Understanding Ethical Concerns in the Design, Application, and Documentation of Learning Analytics in Post-secondary Education

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2015. Major: Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication. Advisor: Ann Hill Duin. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 138 pages.The practice of predicting a student's level of success in order to provide targeted assistance, termed "learning analytics,"� emerged from a well-established business intelligence model popularly called "Big Data"�. The ethical impact of Big Data on business practices has been undeniable, however, the ethical concerns of Big Data methodology in academia have yet to be explored, as research in this emerging discipline is relatively new. Thus, the overarching question for this study is as follows: How can we use rhetorical, scientific, and technical communication perspectives to understand ethical concerns in the design, application, and documentation of learning analytics in post-secondary education? To investigate this question, I conducted a five-stage study using a cross-disciplinary perspective based on existing frameworks in rhetoric and scientific and technical communication, united by their ethical lens, from genre, persuasion, human-computer interaction, social power, semiotics, visual design, new media literacy, and pedagogy to create a matrix for understanding ethical concerns in learning analytics in post-secondary education. During this study, the inability of students to provide input into the learning analytics process was the concern most often revealed, followed by a lack of context for interpreting the data by both institutional users and students, and the potential inaccuracies in the predictive model caused by inaccurate or incomplete data. Secondary concerns included an undefined institutional responsibility to act on data, which could put the institution at risk for legal action, as well as the possibility for discrimination to occur during the learning analytics process. I provide strategies and responses to address ethical concerns in the design and documentation of learning analytics that should constitute a minimum level of ethical action. This minimal implementation would ensure that students are shown goodwill by the institution (design), and that institutions are properly implementing learning analytics in terms of transparency of process and equality of benefit to the student (documentation). The strategies and responses to address ethical concerns in the application of learning analytics would be more complex for each situation and type of learning analytics used, but should always consider student engagement and success as the priority