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Description. Dr Linda Beamer’s presentation on cultural aspect of logic at the Department of Communication studies, Unitec, New Zealand.

Part I – http://youtu.be/6QVRiB7eVrA
Part II – http://youtu.be/t8rgYAhR3sg
Part III – http://youtu.be/J5RCINVg42Q
Part IV – http://youtu.be/FppqFsSS_AA

Keywords. Culture and cognition, Cross-cultural understanding, Cultural contexts, Logic, Reasoning, Argumentation, Ancient Greece, Chinese culture, Arabic cultures, Japanese culture

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

See on Scoop.it – Types of Communication, See on www.youtube.com

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Description. “This interaction-design tutorial titled Gestalt Principles is from chapter six of the Interaction Design Fundamentals course presented by lynda.com author David Hogue. This specific tutorial discusses Gestalt philosophy and how humans perceive the world as meaningful complete objects, not a series of independent parts.”

Keywords. Gestalt principles, Perception, Figure-ground, Law of Prägnanz, Proximity, Similarity, Closure, Common fate, Continuity, Symmetry

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

See on Scoop.it – Technologies, & Human-Computer Interface and Interaction, See on www.youtube.com

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Description. “Robert Desimone introduces keynote speaker Alan Alda at the 10th anniversary celebration of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. As the former host of the long-running PBS series, “Scientific American Frontiers,” Alda shares some advice on how scientists can communicate more effectively with the general public.”

Keywords. Training, Improvisational theatre games, Complex information, Conversational mode, Clarity, Center for Communicating Science

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

See on Scoop.it – Types of Communication,  See on www.youtube.com

• Special Issue 2(2): December 2013
• Special Issue 3(2): December 2014
• Special Issue 4(1): June 2015
• Special Issue 4(2): December 2015

Issue 3(1): June 2014 will be composed of regular submissions.

Please send your proposals for a Special Issue to Rosário Durão at editor@connexionsjournal.org. I will be glad to answer your questions.

To read the requirements for Special Issue proposals, please go to connexionsjournal.org/special-issues/

Thank you for considering organizing a Special Issue for connexions journal.

Rosário Durão
Editor
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See on Scoop.it – Information Development and Artifacts

Description. “Medical, legal, and financial documents should be easy to read, but too often they aren’t. With spot-on (and funny) examples, Sandra Fisher Martins shows how overly complex language separates us from the information we need — and three steps to change that. In Portuguese with English subtitles.”

Keywords. Documents, Understand, Literacy, Information apartheid, Plain language, Consumers, Citizens

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. pt [subtitles. en]

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Description. Judith Butler, post-structuralist philosopher and author, talking about precarity and the ethical obligations of geographical proximity through the perspectives of Emmanuel Lévinas and Hannah Arendt, with a response by Bracha Ettinger. In this lecture, Judith Butler discusses our ethical response to suffering at a distance, ethical obligations, geographical proximity, ethics, images of war suffering, Lévinas and Susan Sontag on the war image, the media, grounds for global responsibility, consent and communitarianism, the media’s role in proximity and distance, corporeal locatedness, mediated ethical relations, global connectedness, being moved, ethical philosophy and what it means to be ethical in these times; Lévinas on racial and cultural belonging, reciprocity – that egoism as the defeat of ethics itself, the life of the Other and the precarious and corporeal being, the call, vulnerability and ethical relations, cohabitation, the prerogative of genocide, politics and the necessity of cohabiting the earth, community, the notion of unwilled proximity and unchosen cohabitation, precarity, interdependency, ethics on a global scale. Bracha Ettinger responds with the subject and the body, the proto-ethical call and aesthetic phenomena, the uncanny anxiety, the vulnerability of the other, the non-I, transconnectedness, the self, the giving up of subjectivity, subjectivity as an encounter, the mode of co-emerging, affective access to the world, the passage of ethics to politics, interdependency, sharing and trans-sharing over distance and proximity.

Keywords. Ethics, Image, Media, Global, Local, Interdependency

Type. Presentation (lecture) | Format. Video | Language. en

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Description. “The Web, society, information, cells and brain can all be represented and studied as complex networks of interactions. Nodes in such networks tend to organize into clusters and communities, which represent the fundamental structures for understanding the organization of complex systems. Even though detection of network communities is of significant importance for computer science, sociology and biology, our understanding of the community structure of large networks remains limited.
We study a set of more than 200 large networks with the goal to understand and identify communities in networks. We challenge the conventional view of network community structure and show that it is not exhibited by the large real-world networks. We then present a new conceptual model of network community structure, which reliably captures the overall structure of networks and accurately identifies the overlapping nature of network communities.”

Keywords. complexity, networks, communities, groups

Type. Presentation (lecture) | Format. Video | Language. en

Via videolectures.net

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Description. “Story has played a significant role in all cultures put its adoption into professional cultures has been painfully slow. It’s easier to present a report instead of a well-crafted presentation.”

Keywords. Storytelling, Culture, Report, Story, Presentation, Framework, Audience engagement

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

Via www.youtube.com

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Description. Jon Scharer introduces us to Communities of Practice (CoP) in this podcast. Communities of Practice, both for management and practitioners, have, for a variety of reasons, become more valued of late in the workplace. Listen as Scharer highlights two key factors necessary for ensuring the establishment and maintenance of an effective CoP.

Keywords. Communities of Practice (CoP), approaches, organization and organism, knowledge transfer, boundaries, relationships, members, roles

Type. Training podcast | Format. Podcast | Language. en

Via ewh.ieee.org

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Description. “Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments in the newspapers, hear them on the television, or in the pub and wish you knew how to confidently evaluate them? In this six-part course, you will learn all about arguments, how to identify them, how to evaluate them, and how not to mistake bad arguments for good. Such skills are invaluable if you are concerned about the truth of your beliefs, and the cogency of your arguments.”

Keywords. arguments, critical reasoning, argument, reasoning, rhetoric

Type. Presentation (lecture) | Format. Video | Language. en

Via www.youtube.com

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Description. “This is an edited version of a transatlantic interview we carried out with Sarah O’Keefe, CEO of our US partner Scriptorium Inc., on DITA. We discussed a range of topics relating to DITA, but these clips focus on the business case for DITA – why and when it makes sense to move to this standard for producing documentation.”

Part 1/4 – http://youtu.be/7AJfZALHr8U

Part 2/4 – http://youtu.be/i2q0BMTBRl8

Part 3/4 – http://youtu.be/UXSrHNynyBg

Part 4/4 – http://youtu.be/thUylZ3FaDM

Keywords. DITA, content re-use, localization, incremental publishing, ROI

Type. Interview | Format. Video | Language. en

Via www.youtube.com

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Description. Content is the most important feature of the Internet. But do we really know what and how to write to attract users? We should do it with the same care as when writing for print, or a book. The major difference is the audience, which is potentially unlimited, and which you can use to your advantage. By the hand of Xosé Castro, you will learn the principles of writing for the 21st century. (trans.)

Keywords. Communication, Writing, Article, Social web, Language as cultural marker, Context, Purpose, Medium, Public, Client

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. es

Via www.youtube.com

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Description. For years, most Web teams have designed for the desktop. Mobile, if it even happened, was a port off the desktop version, designed and built before anyone even considered the mobile experience. This made perfect sense for a while. Browsing the Web on mobile phones was painful; carriers controlled access to the Web on their devices; and mobile network speeds made everything often grind to a halt. But things have changed so dramatically over the past few years that starting with the desktop may be an increasingly backwards way of thinking about a Web product. Designing for mobile first can not only open up new opportunities for growth, it can lead to a better overall user experience for a Web site or application. In this presentation, Luke Wroblewski will dig into the three key reasons to consider mobile first: mobile is seeing explosive growth; mobile forces you to focus; and mobile extends your capabilities

Keywords. Design, Interfaces, Mobile devices, Mobile applications, Desktop, Usage, Users

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

Via link.brightcove.com

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Description. “Body language is a form of non-verbal communication, which consists of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. Humans send and interpret such signals almost entirely subconsciously.

John Borg attests that human communication consists of 93 percent body language and paralinguistic cues, while only 7% of communication consists of words themselves;[1] however, Albert Mehrabian, the researcher whose 1960s work is the source of these statistics, has stated that this is a misunderstanding of the findings[2] (see Misinterpretation of Mehrabian’s rule). Others assert that “Research has suggested that between 60 and 70 percent of all meaning is derived from nonverbal behavior.”[3]

Body language may provide clues as to the attitude or state of mind of a person. For example, it may indicate aggression, attentiveness, boredom, relaxed state, pleasure, amusement, and intoxication, among many other cues”

Keywords. Body language, Non-verbal communication, Signals

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

Via www.youtube.com

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Description. Over the past few decades information design has been in transition—moving from the creation of mainly paper-based communications to today’s mix of paper and electronic artifacts. Information designers’ repertoire must now include visual and verbal strategies for the Web. This shift in media compels us to ask what reading looks like in an electronic environment and to reconsider how people might engage with our content. To design effective electronic communications requires not only good writing and visual design but also an understanding of reading on the Web

Keywords. Reading, Information design, Technology, Rhetoric, Users

Type. Presentation (lecture) | Format. Video | Language. en

Via videolectures.net

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Description. Web on-the-go is now an everyday reality. It touches all of our lives from the moment we wake, to our commute, from work to an evening out on the town. This reality presents both an opportunity and an incredible challenge as Web content managers attempt to optimize customer engagement.

Keywords. Web content management, Localization, Globalization, Culture, Users

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

Via videolectures.net

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Description. “Professor Timothy Coombs talks about the relations between social media and crisis communication. He shows some of the aspects that a communicator in a company should be aware of when communicating online, both before and during a crisis situation. Furthermore he explains the dos and donts for companies online.”

Keywords. Social media, Crisis communication, Crisis management, Online communication, Reputation, Credibility

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

Via www.youtube.com

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Description. “The past decade has seen incredible interest in applying information and communication technologies for international development, an endeavor often abbreviated “ICT4D.” Can mobile phones be used to improve rural healthcare? How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? What value is technology to a farmer earning $1 a day?

Interventionist ICT4D projects seek to answer these kinds of questions, but the excitement has also generated a lot of hype about the power of technology to solve the deep problems of poverty. In this talk, I will (1) present several myths of ICT4D that persist despite evidence to the contrary, (2) offer a theory of “technology as amplifier” which explains the gap between rhetoric and actuality, and (3) provide one key recommendation for successful ICT4D interventions. My hope is to temper the brash claims of technology with realism about its true potential.”

Keywords. HCI, Development communication, Rhetoric, Myths, ICT4D

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

Via www.youtube.com

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Description. “Design guidelines and tools exist for making web sites accessible for people with disabilities, but a majority of corporate and government web sites continue to be inaccessible. For the U.S. Federal government, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires that all web sites be accessible, however, a majority of Federal web sites are not in compliance, and site accessibility statements often provide little information. This presentation will provide information on recent research and recent policy activity related to web accessibility. Some recent research findings include studies of human interaction proofs, link structures, and web-based e-mail applications for blind users, and web browsing for expert users with Down syndrome. Some recent policy activities include the July memo from the Office of Management and Budget on Section 508 enforcement, the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from the Justice Department on the accessibility of web information provided by entities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the administrative complaint filed against Penn State University due to inaccessible campus technology.” (http://www.event.iastate.edu/event/24487/)

Keywords. Disability, Web Accessibility, Human-Computer Interaction

Type. Presentation | Format. Video | Language. en

Via vimeo.com

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Description. “The not very slow but definitely steady flow of computer technology into far corners of everyday life has changed fundamental cultural processes and affected how people work, learn, and play. It’s also provided lots of cool stuff to buy. But by some measures there has also been a somewhat fundamental failure of imagination in envisioning what hardware, software and services can look like which has resulted in users from outside targeted demographics adapting technology in unexpected and creative ways. One might argue that such examples of adaptation could serve as potentially valuable illustrations of what technology that is relevant across contexts could look like, if only users were seen as more than consumers – perhaps, also, as citizens.

This talk is about diversity of design, the cult of expertise, and why hackers are the good guys. It’s also about how people use technology in Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan, what user generated content looked like before PCs, and why EULAs fundamentally threaten innovation. Essentially, this talk lays out the argument that theories of subjectivity and axe grinders can be part of the same conversation, and that encouraging users to become hackers, builders, and thieves may be the best way to ensure creative and diverse design.”

Keywords. Design, Expertise, Technology, User-Generated Content, Creativity, Consumerism, Hackers

Type. Presentation | Format. Video| Language. en

Via www.youtube.com