Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays 10 to 12.30
Place: 210 South Hall
Instructors: Janaki Srinivasan & Neha Kumar
This course will encourage students to think broadly about the interplay between technological systems, social processes, economic activities, and political contingencies in efforts to alleviate poverty. Students will come to understand poverty not only in terms of high-level indicators, but from a ground-level … [Read more...]
Last Wednesday I presented some of my research from my dissertation at the UC Berkeley School of Information.
Video (YouTube) | Slides (pdf, 2 mb)
The talk was about 50 minutes, followed by Q&A. The material in the talk comes mainly from chapter 7 of the dissertation, which focused on the topics of sharing and theft on deviantART. Towards the … [Read more...]
Make Us Smart: Ian on Innovative User Interfaces
From the blog I290 Information-Centric Entrepreneurship & Startup Strategies
May 3rd, 2012
This course is over. You will be deleted.… [Read more...]
AAPL: a view from the top of the heap
From the blog I290 Information-Centric Entrepreneurship & Startup Strategies
April 18th, 2012
A blog post that John passed along:
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/04/14/a-decade-of-apple-visualized.aspx
An excerpt:
I’ve compiled more than 10 years of operating data on the Mac maker, starting with the first quarter of fiscal 2002, the fiscal quarter when the iPod was launched — and I’m happy to share my findings with you, my Foolish reader. Let’s take an illustrative trip down memory lane
Final Assignment Instructions
From the blog I290 Information-Centric Entrepreneurship & Startup Strategies
April 16th, 2012
Many of our discussions have focused on the strengths and weaknesses of well-known companies like Facebook, Zynga, Amazon, Twitter, and Yelp. For the final assignment, you and your team will consider how you would take down a leader in the field of information-centered ventures. You’ll analyze the market, assess … [Read more...]
Sharing, Theft, and Creativity: April 25th talk on my research
From the blog Perkelating
April 9th, 2012
Rather than having a dissertation “defense,” the School of Information asks its graduating doctoral students to give a public talk during business hours (getting the signatures was the defense…). I’ll be presenting a portion of my research on April 25 from noon to 2pm at South Hall on UC Berkeley’s Campus.
What: “Sharing, Theft, and Creativity: deviantART’s Share Wars and … [Read more...]
What we will be using:
Media capture
You don’t need to own anything. However, it is likely that most students will have mobile phones with camera and audio and video recording. These can be quite useful.
Many students will have point and shoot cameras. Some will have dSLRs. Some have digital recording devices. I have some video cameras available for … [Read more...]
The Spring, 2012, version of this course is here.
The fall course will be somewhat revised and updated. The exact content of the course depends in part on the interests of the students in the course.… [Read more...]
Multimedia Narrative for Professional Practice and Field Research
Prof. Nancy Van House
School of Information
290. Multimedia Narrative (Sec 2) (3 units)
TuTh 11-12:30
205 South Hall
CCN: 42623
Visual and other media are central to professional practice and research in many fields. Data collection, reports and presentations, face-to-face and distant, online and off, often rely heavily on video, audio, … [Read more...]
