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Contents 1 Important and Useful links 2 Class Wikis 3 Quality Twitter Interactions 3.1 Matrix 3.2 Matrix round 2 3.3 Comm homework overload 3.4 fixing up the wiki 4 Compendium 4.1 *Articulation 4.2 *Juxtaposition 5 Midterm Project 6 FInishing With A Boom (Final Project) 6.1 Final Project 6.2 Cultivating Collective Intelligence 6.3 Buzzin 7 Tropes are Metaphors on Steroids

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Ktrychon Cdanoff Dfoley Ckmetz Nfoy Kimdelehanty Msanders Csi Jameshoffman Sorlando BostonPride Kalf917 BrittR00 Wallybeckler NatashaKapadia NewLiberty Hdanfort Hbcohen91 Sgershlak Jamer574 Jwegrzyn Csilv117 BConn63

Quality Twitter Interactions

Matrix

• Wallybeckler: Who would like to watch the rest of the matrix?
  
• Ddavies315: @wallybeckler do you mind if I borrow the matrix when you’re done? Lemme know!
  
• Wallybeckler: sorry @sgershlak @ddavies it’s on my roommates computer
  
• Ddavies315: @wallbeckler that’s okay, thanks though!
  

January 22nd, 2011

Matrix round 2

• Al_Pal13: Hey @ddavies315! Could I borrow the matrix?
  
• Ddavies315: @al_pal13 yeah sure! I’ll drop it off now ☺
  
• Al_pal13: @ddavies315 Thanks so much!
  

Comm homework overload

• Ddavies315: RT@dandipiero27 “there is so much com hw this is crazy” Agreed! So much reading. Hoping for a snow day to catch up on all the work!!
  
• Dandipiero27: @ddavies do u know what we have to do with the quotes from reading?
  
• Ddavies315: @dandipeiro27 I have no idea I guess put them in the encyclopedia from last semester? But I’m really not sure I didn’t know we had to do that
  
• Dandipiero27: @ddavies315 well this sucks
  

fixing up the wiki

• Sgershlak: How and what do we need to archive again?
  
• Ddavies315: @sgershlak I just made a new page instead of archiving it, I can help you later if you want.
  
• Sgershlak: @ddavies315 Yes I would like that…thanks
  

Compendium

*Articulation

*Juxtaposition

Midterm Project

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• "Millennials:The Next Best Thing VOST2011"
• "Millennials: The Next Best Thing VOST2011 (no sound)"

FInishing With A Boom (Final Project)

Final Project

• Buzz Buzz Boom Team Members

Cultivating Collective Intelligence

Buzzin

• Buzz Buzz Boom Brainstorming

Tropes are Metaphors on Steroids

(notes from the chalkboard, 3rd class session, 27 January 2010)

In terms of a logical progression from

1. WHAT are we talking about?
2. SO WHAT that we're talking about it, that "it" happens - is it important? do we care? are there implications?
3. NOW WHAT do we do in response?

Tropes are relevant to all three stages in the progression of developing knowledge. The concept was introduced in class during a review of David Gerrold"s Introduction to a book of essays about The Matrix (called Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix). The first stage, "WHAT," concerns the question, "What if we are in a matrix?"

• are machines in control?
• are institutional forces taking over? Have they already?

Note this link to 10 Films Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind. While googling for a link to the book, I not only came across that list, but the same site was pitching a blogentry on "gear." Why might information on our uses of/interactions with technology catch my attention at this time in our class' development? Steph^(talk) 07:30, 5 February 2011 (EST)

Tropes are a phenomena of language. Metaphors, for instance, are a basic kind of trope. A metaphor compares two things - usually something familiar with something unfamiliar, in order to aid comprehension of the less-familiar thing. The trope aspect of a metaphor involves the whole system of relationships about the things being compared. There are different kinds and types of tropes as well. Functionally, tropes are tools or uses of language intended to facilitate understanding. Looked at from the opposite direction, using a particular trope reveals the way of thinking of the person using it.

Tropes can be

• controlling
• powerful

Tropes involve the use of

• symbols
• archetypes
• mythologies

• Individuals may or may not be aware of using tropes in their language, and/or they may having varying degrees of awareness of their own tropic ways of thinking.

• Tropes persist in time - they are notions to follow over a generation(s): are they stable? Do they cycle? Are there sequences or periodicities to the evolution or shift in the popularity or disdain of certain tropes?

• Because tropes are an artefact of thought and language, they are an "underlying" phenomena, something one reads "between the lines." Tropes occupy a nebulous "place" - where is a trope located? "In" your mind? "In" words? "In" interaction?

• a trope is a bubble within which you conceptualize something; a focused idea.
• ...a metaphor on steroids
• tropes are like an abstract "place" in your thinking, they can act like boundaries on your awareness because they steer your attention to make certain associations and not others.</span>