Tag Archives: language

A Domain By Any Other Name

Autumn Hand | 11 September 2011, 10:02 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Websites are headed towards major name changes. Recent amendments have authorized the creation of a porn specific .XXX domain, allowed non-Latin alphabet characters into the address bar, and most significantly freed top-level domain names from the conventional endings of .com, .org, .edu, et al. When these changes trickle down to the average user, the Internet will never be the same.

Scientific Visualization: how to let the brain understand that it sees itself?

Jorien De Wandeler | 29 April 2011, 9:24 am | tags: , , , ,

Abstract:
Scientific visualizations are part of the branch of data visualization. They primarily show 3D models of natural phenomena. Scientific visualizations are under-represented compared to information visualization (the other part of data visualization). Time to take a closer look at the way in which scientific information is, and should, be visualized and what that learns us about information visualization.

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What’s a Good Online Dictionary?

Ashiq Khondker | 19 September 2010, 4:47 am | tags: , , , , ,


Every good scholar and samaritan comes across a new word throughout their life, so we’ve relied on dictionaries to aid us. Our lexical resources have evolved with our languages, and even in my life I’ve come to rely on the internet more often than the good old fat little paper dictionaries with their years-old dictionary smells you could flip through…

A Language of All Languages?

Ashiq Khondker | 13 September 2010, 5:11 am | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

Technologies have always appeared that have served to progressively make the world smaller — from ships, rail and air travel to electricity, the telegraph, telephone, etc. At the same time, they have made worlds larger, for individuals could explore areas new to them, regardless of whether in the realm of spatial, temporal or psychic experience.  The very fact that I’m…

Twitter Poetry and the Re-use Era: the Creation of Meaning

Marta Colpani | 09 October 2009, 11:55 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Twitter writing poetryAs I wrote in the last post about my new media research on Twitter, this new social networking site offers a very specific new format for communication. It gives a constraint of 140 characters to write a status update. Although Twitter asks the user to write “what he is doing”, this space is used by different users in…

In search for universal language

Jan Bajec | 05 October 2009, 12:07 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Umberto Eco, a cultural critic, semiotician, and a writer said that we live in an age where the “diminutive, the brief and the simple are highly prized in communication” (Thurlow & Brown). New communication technologies can empower young people to explore and develop imaginative ways of making the technology work best for them. If we put Twitter in…

“ILNY, it’s a gr8 plc”

Radmila Radojevic | 05 October 2009, 11:01 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

According to the recent statistic from ITU (International Telecommunication Union), in conjunction with UN, more than half of the globe population is subscribed to mobile telephony systems. And this number competes with that of the Internet subscribers. While mobiles have been prevailingly used in every day communication among young people (College and University students), the statistics has shown increasing number…

The Multilingual Internet, or Where the Green Ants Dream

Nicola Bozzi | 14 September 2009, 7:52 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

In one of the last scenes of Werner Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) an Aborigine stands up in a court room to speak up against some mineral excavations happening in a sacred tribal ground. The judge asks for a translation, but nobody can provide it. The man is called “the Mute”, being the last living…