mLearning, development and delivery : creating opportunity and enterprise within the HE in FE context

This research project was funded by ESCalate in 2006-7 to support Somerset College in developing the curriculum, as well as widening participation via the use of mobile communications technologies such as mp3 players and mobile phones. The Project represents a highly topical and timely engagement with the opportunities for learning provided by the burgeoning use of mobile computing/ communications devices. Activities bring together colleagues from Teacher Education and Multimedia Computing in an innovative approach to designing for and delivering the curriculum. The Project addresses pedagogic issues and also vitally involves current and future learners, providing them with a new context for skills development and entrepreneurship. Anticipated outcomes include informed development of new HE modules and professional CPD activities which address the skills and context of this emerging approach to delivering the curriculum. The Project also intends to trial and evaluate the use of mobile technologies to support a blended learning approach to programme delivery and the development of a FD module which could be delivered via a mobile computing device. An interim report and a final project report are available as Word and PDF file

Hybrid Spaces: Users\u27 Perceptions of Digitally Mediated Public Space

Public space has served as a central component to human settlement since the ancient Greeks, and a forum for unmediated discussion, communication, and debate (Hénaff & Strong, 2001; Mitchell 2003). During the industrialization of cities, public space continued to transform in form and typology, and has served society in various ways (Carr, Rivlin, Francis, & Stone, 1992). Public space is also a physical environment where interaction with digital environment occurs. Today, in the City of New York there are 503 privately owned public spaces (POPS) (Kayden, 2000); often these spaces provide varying levels of wireless access as public and/or private provisions. The role of new media and technology in physical space has captured the attention of many researchers in recent years (e.g. Manovich, 2001; Forlano, 2009; de Souza e Silva & Frith, 2012). As technology develops and becomes increasingly mobile and integrated within daily life, there is a need for researchers to also understand how this impacts the physical environment (Townsend, 2004; Forlano, 2009). Concurrently, recent literature suggests that urban public space, especially POPS, are increasingly regulated and controlled (Benton-Short, 2002; Miller, 2007; Németh & Schmidt, 2007, 2011); whereas new media technology continues to promote unmediated exchange and interaction (Manovich, 2001). Additionally, scholars have asserted that Internet access, because of its location within public space and the electronic connectivity it offers may have the ability to increase the overall use of public spaces (Hampton, Livio, & Sessions Goulet, 2010). Unfortunately, it is unclear how access to digital space within public space can affect public perception on the nature of these spaces. Forlano (2009) suggests that wireless networks can reconfigure people, places, and information in physical space. However, beyond the analysis of usage patterns there is little empirical research on how wireless technologies in public space can affect human behavior, interactions with the network, and human perceptions of these spaces and networks. Additionally, there is little research that examines the difference between device users and non-users within these environments. This study examines the role of Wi-Fi networks in five public spaces in Lower Manhattan, New York. A mixed methods approach pairs on-site observation with a survey that examines users\u27 perceptions of these spaces. Ultimately, this study contributes to a larger body of literature that discusses the \u27publicness\u27 of public space by including the role of new media and users\u27 behaviors in its current assessment. Findings demonstrate how access to digital media affects users\u27 perceptions of public space

The Crescent Student Newspaper, September 9, 1994

Student newspaper of George Fox College (later George Fox University). 8 pages, black and white.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/2114/thumbnail.jp

Defining the Role of Multinational Corporations: Starbucks and Coffee Culture in Indonesia

Aktor-aktor non-negara dalam Hubungan Internasional memiliki kekuatan ekonomi, politik, dan sosial yang memiliki pengaruh dalam level nasional dan internasional. Tulisan ini akan fokus membahas salah satu aktor non-negara yaitu MNCs dengan mengambil studi kasus Starbucks. Starbucks merupakan salah satu MNCs yang berhasil menjadi coffee shop nomor satu dan pada tahun 2018 tercatat memiliki 27.000 outlet yang tersebat di seluruh belahan dunia. Indonesia telah menjadi host country sejak tahun 2002 saat Starbucks pertama kali hadir di Indonesia berlokasi di Plaza Indonesia. Starbucks telah berkembang pesat dan pada tahun 2018 tercatat memiliki 326 outlet di 22 kota besar di Indonesia. Starbucks tidak hanya menjual kopi, tetapi memberikan kesan baru dalam menikmati kopi yang dikenal dengan “Starbucks experience”. Starbucks telah mempromosikan coffee culture sejak 1971. Di Indonesia, Starbucks telah berkontribusi terhadap transformasi budaya ngopi dari cara tradisional menjadi modern, dimana tempat ngopi dibuat sangat nyaman dimanjakan dengan berbagai fasilitas. Starbucks menjadi bagian dari modernisasi budaya ngopi di Indonesia yang telah mendorong kedai-kedai kopi untuk mencontoh manajemen dan pemasaran Starbucks serta memiliki sasaran konsumen yang lebih luas. Starbucks menciptakan berbagai inovasi terutama dalam varian rasa yang memungkinkan kopi bisa dinikmati oleh siapa saja tanpa mengenal umur. Dalam tulisan ini, penulis ingin menganalisis kedatangan Starbucks kaitannya dengan transformasi budaya ngopi di Indonesia menggunakan konsep milik Arjun Appandurai yaitu “5 dimensions of global cultural flow” dan menganalisis kegagalan Starbucks dalam menciptakan produk hibrid di Indonesia

‘Tuning out’ or ‘tuning in’? mobile music listening and intensified encounters with the city

Mobile music listening has become an increasingly pervasive part of urban life. Yet it represents an area of enquiry with which urban studies scholars have yet to meaningfully engage. This paper considers the role of mobile music devices in creating new sonic, emotional and social interactions with and within the city. While academic work in this area has emphasized the use of these devices as a ‘tuning out’ of the physicality of the city, we suggest that they might also be used as part of a ‘tuning in’ that enhances the meaning and intensity of engagements with the city. In making this case, the paper considers two areas of academic enquiry that highlight the use of mobile music devices in intensified engagements with the city: first, recent writing on the sonic ecologies of the city that emphasize ‘city sounds’ as part of the urban experience; and second recent advances in the field of urban computing that provide technologies for location-aware music-exchanges and mediated social interactions. The paper emphasizes mobile music listening as one area of critical enquiry that can help develop our understanding of the ways in which the pervasiveness of mobile devices is recalibrating the experience of urban spatiality

Temporal Text Mining: From Frequencies to Word Embeddings

The last decade has witnessed a tremendous growth in the amount of textual data available from web pages and social media posts, as well as from digitized sources, such as newspapers and books. However, as new data is continuously created to record the events of the moment, old data is archived day by day, for months, years, and decades. From this point of view, web archives play an important role not only as sources of data, but also as testimonials of history. In this respect, state-of-art machine learning models for word representations, namely word embeddings, are not able to capture the dynamic nature of semantics, since they represent a word as a single-state vector which do not consider different time spans of the corpus. Although diachronic word embeddings have started appearing in recent works, the very small literature leaves several open questions that must be addressed. Moreover, these works model language evolution from a strong linguistic perspective. We approach this problem from a slightly different perspective. In particular, we discuss temporal word embeddings models trained on highly evolving corpora, in order to model the knowledge that textual archives have accumulated over the years. This allow to discover semantic evolution of words, but also find temporal analogies and compute temporal translations. Moreover, we conducted experiments on word frequencies. The results of an in-depth temporal analysis of shifts in word semantics, in comparison to word frequencies, show that these two variations are related

Daily Eastern News: October 29, 1981

https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1981_oct/1019/thumbnail.jp