INLS 180 Day 2 Notes

Sept. 7, 2005

Opportunities

1. Info/Comm/Interaction notes

Information senses (thing, process, mental representations, ‘proflection’ in cyberspace)

Information layers

(signal—data—information—knowledge—wisdom)

                        Signal (mass/energy)

                        Data (ordered mass/energy)

                        Information (data in a human)

                        Knowledge (formalized information and skills—represented mentally and/or physically)

                        Wisdom (the experience to know the differences)

Communication senses:

            Process involving:

                        Two or more (human) participants (sender/receiver, creator/audience, etc.)

                        Sender (initiator, creator, etc.) has intention

                        Receiver’s mental state changes

                        Time ranges from 0+ to infinite

                        May be unidirectional

            Object (e.g., document)

Interaction senses:

            Mutual (reciprocal) action (process)

                        Two or more objects (often we are concerned with one being human)

                        Either may initiate, may be unintentional/random

                        States of both objects change

                        Time ranges from 0+ to infinite (but most often concerned with small latencies)

                        Always bidirectional (feedback required, typically multiple cycles)

What might it mean to interact with information?   Does information change when we ‘interact’ with it? 

How does digital information affect the possibilities of interaction?

For HII do we also include the inferences and uses made of information?

2. Readings:

Pierce (Marchionini)  (slides)

Pool (Group 1)

See Statistical Abstract of the USA http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/04statab/infocomm.pdf

See http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/156/report_display.asp for more recent Internet usage data

3. Read for next week:

Read for next meeting:

Tannen, D. (1995). The power of talk: Who gets heard and why. (SILS reserve)  (Group 2)

Chatman, Elfreda. (1996). The impoverished life-world of outsiders.  (JASIST online)  (Group 3)

 Optional: Rogers, E. M. (1995). Diffusion of Innovations. pp 1-37. (Note: this item is on reserve in the SILS library.)

 Roloff, M. E. (1981). Interpersonal Communication: The Social Exchange Approach. Chapter 1, Social Exchange: Key Concepts, p13-31.

4. One-minute paper concept

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?