Video Architecture, Folksonomies
and Blogs
Date and time: 11.30am-12.30pm, Friday 14th October, 2005
Venue: 10.08.04
Chair: Xiaodong Li
Abstract:
In this talk come survey Adrian
will discuss his recent research and work in networked interactive video,
indicating some of the issues that arise in video architectures when
interactivity and networks are considered as something more than merely
publishing formats.
From here he will move into social taxonomies (folksonomies),
indicating their prolific rise through a range of social software systems/sites,
their implications for teaching, academic practice and social computing, and
possibly why this raises some serious questions about web semantics.
Finally both of these will be returned (perhaps) via blogs
and a wishlist for tools that ought to, but haven't
been, made.
About the speaker:
Adrian Miles teaches the theory and practice of hypermedia
and interactive video at RMIT University, Australia.
He has also been a senior new media researcher in the InterMedia Lab at the University of Bergen, Norway.
His academic research on hypertext and networked interactive video has been
widely published and his applied digital projects have been exhibited
internationally. Adrian's research interests
include hypertext and hypermedia, digital poetics, and the use of Deleuzean philosophy in the context of digital poetics. He
is on the executive committee of the Association for Computers and the Humanities,
and was the recipient of the Ted Nelson Award at the 2001 ACM Hypertext
conference.
Seminar Organisation
Seminars are free and open to the general public. No booking is necessary.
If you are interested in giving a presentation in this seminar series, or to
make suggestions for speakers, please contact Xiaodong Li, the seminar
co-ordinator.