Today we wrapped up the section on issues and ethics of information and media. Next we’ll move into discussions on how media and information are organized. We start on Wednesday with metadata — information about information, taxonomies, folksonomies; metadata for non-text media, and metadata challenges.
Please read Badke Ch. 4; Dye, Folksonomy: A game of high-tech (and high-stakes) tag; and Harrod, It’s the playground of narcissistic teenagers and amateur photographers…
Your blogging assignment is to comment on at least one of your classmates’ blog posts.
Slides from today are available here.
~Prof. L.
