RAW

Bitton, J., S. Agamanolis, and M. Karau, “RAW: Conveying minimally-mediated impressions of everyday life with an audio-photographic tool”. In Proceedings of CHI 2004.

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The development of RAW, a systemcombining a tool and a process for capturing and conveying audiovisual impressions of everyday life. The project aimsto enable a relationship between the user of the tool and an audience in a different place or time with an absoluteminimum of editorial mediation by a third party. The tool itself incorporates a digital camera and a binaural audio recording device that captures the minute of sound before and after a picture is taken.

Notes:

• The design of the RAW system aims to consider both sound and image of the same importance. The audio provides context to the image and the image provides a context for the audio.
• How is the human experience and how can you track it?
• “audiophotography”
• recording one minute of sound before and after each photo to compromise between limited storage overhead and a desire to capture as full a context of each moment as possible.
• binaural recording for the closest possible recording and reproduction of what the user of the tool is hearing while they are taking pictures.

The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life

Boyd, Danah. 2007. “Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.” In MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning – Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Volume(ed. David Buckingham). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

The text is about how social network sites like MySpace and Facebook became a common, important destination for young people

Notes:

• “If you’re not on MySpace, you don’t exist”
• two types of non-participants: disenfranchisedteens and conscientious objectors. The former consists of those without Internet access, those whose parents succeed in banning them from participation, and online teens whoprimarily access the Internet through school and other public venues where social network sites are banned.
• Social network sites are based around Profiles, a form of individual (or, less frequently, group) home page, which offers a description of each member.