Registration Open for the first Transliteracy Conference, Leicester UK, 9 Feb 2010
The first Transliteracy Conference takes place at Leicester’s new Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre on Tuesday 9 Feb 2010
Find out more and register at http://www.transliteracy.com
The full schedule for the day will be released soon but in the meantime a list of speakers and abstracts can be found at http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/2010abstracts.html
Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. Since 2005, when Professor Sue Thomas introduced the concept in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, transliteracy has been taken up and explored by a broad range of academics and practitioners, from information scientists to literary theorists, artists and writers. This one-day event offers an opportunity for academics, artists, business people and practitioners to share discoveries, ideas, and creative works that amplify and augment transliteracy research.
For more about The Transliteracy Research Group (TRG) see http://www.transliteracy.com
To discuss transliteracy visit http://transliteracy.ning.com/
For information specific to libraries visit my Libraries and Transliteracy page or visit our forum in the Ning group.
Reminder Transliteracy Conference 9 Feb 2010 Call for Papers Dec 1st Deadline
Call for Presentations : Transliteracy Conference : Tuesday 9 February, 2010, 9:30 – 17:30
Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre Leicester, UK
In association with the Institute of Creative Technologies & the NLab Small Business Network, De Montfort University
http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/conference2010.html
Deadline for Abstracts: 1 December, 2009
Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. Since 2005, when Professor Sue Thomas introduced this concept in the UK, transliteracy has been taken up and explored by a broad range of academics and practitioners, from information scientists to literary theorists, artists and writers.
The first Transliteracy Conference will take place at Leicester’s new Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, on 9 Feb 2010. This one-day event offers an opportunity for academics, artists, business people and practitioners to share discoveries, ideas, and creative works that amplify and augment transliteracy research.
This Call for Presentations invites 250 word abstracts. Presentations should be 10-15 minutes in duration, and can be used to show work or deliver a short paper. The Conference Panel will group presentations together thematically in sessions scheduled to include time to explore the issues and ideas raised through discussion. Phoenix Square is well equipped with the latest technology, so presenters will be able to show work on screen and via the internet.
Themes to be explored include:
- transliteracy and libraries
- transliteracy and the arts
- transliteracy in education
- transliteracy in communications
- transliteracy in the workplace
- transliteracy and transdisciplinarity
- transliteracy in action – examples of transliterate works, like digital fiction, networked arts projects, or library resources
Abstracts should be submitted in the body of an email totransliteracy@googlemail.com Please include a 100-word bio and contact email address.
Deadline for abstracts is 1 December, 2009; notification of acceptance by 18 December, 2009.
Further information can be obtained from Louisa Allen attransliteracy@googlemail.com
We expect to charge a modest delegate fee to cover costs.
Selected materials from the conference will be published online athttp://www.transliteracy.com
For more about The Transliteracy Research Group (TRG) seehttp://www.transliteracy.com
To discuss Transliteracy visit http://transliteracy.ning.com/
Put Down the Phone and Pay Attention
CC image courtesy of Lights Out Photos on flickr
Last week I (and many others) spent a lot of time documenting the Internet Librarian conference, photos, tweets, blog posts, facebook updates. Did the act of digitally documenting the events change anything? Did the process of lifestreaming change my (and others) behavior, perception of what was happening and memories of it. Will we remember it better or worse?
A recent article from CNN Do digital diaries mess up your brain? looks at the effects of lifestreaming. Just knowing others are watching you may change the types of experiences you choose to have, from books to movies to where you eat and what you wear.
“If we have experiences with an eye toward the expectation that in the next five minutes, we’re going to tweet them, we may choose difference experiences to have, ones that we can talk about rather than ones we have an interest in,” he said.
It also detaches you from what’s happening at the moment. If you’re focused on tweeting what’s happening, you’re not fully engage in what’s happening.
But recording everything you do takes people out of the “here and now,” psychologists say. Constant documenting may make people less thoughtful about and engaged in what they’re doing because they are focused on the recording process, Schwartz said.
What does that do to our actual memories of events? Memories are shaky at best even when you’re completely focused. If you’re only half there, will you remember it later without the aid of digital documentation? What would I rather have a memory of something or documentation of it to prove I was there? What if that documentation goes away?
It makes me think, I do want to be living and experiencing life to the fullest. Does this mean I’ll put down the camera, the cell phone, the laptop? I don’t know. Probably not at conferences, but I’ll be thinking hard about doing it in other areas of my life. What good is lifestreaming an experience if I’m not fully enjoying it?
Internet Librarian Wrap Up
As always conferences are amazing, stimulating, intense and tiring, but worth every second of it. I was able to talk with so many amazing people, and yet there were so many others I wanted to connect with and didn’t manage to. *More reflection at the end, but for those who want the nitty gritty….
Pulled from notes and tweets – some of my favorite quotes/idea and what I’m thinking about.
- If you could tell the world 1 thing about libraries in 30 secs or less what would it be?
- Good enough is the new perfect
- Lean into your discomfort – change doesn’t happen without discomfort.
- Be clear where your lines are drawn.
- Your librarianly obsession with Star Wars will not endear you to your patrons.
- The future is here its just not evenly distributed.
- Privacy is dead, get over it
- “If I’d asked them what they wanted they would have said a faster horse” – Henry Ford
- “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” Gen. Eric Shinseki
- If we keep identifying with books – libraries are dead.
- We should reward success and failure, punish inaction
- We have more autonomy as college students that we do as adults
- “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” – John Cage
- Assume everyone is going to be an ally
- Understand what your org hidden org chart is
- Ask for the sale
- When people see something new they think you’re taking away the old, so start with what is staying the same
- 70% of patron interaction occurs remotely.
- Quest to Teen: Are you ever bullied online? Teen: Nope, I’m private, but sometimes my friends annoy me
- 70% overlap btwn teens & boomers. Volunteer 4 xs more & engaged in the issues
Books I’ll be reading -
- Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke–the Simple Change That Can Make Your Job Terrific
- The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
– this one has been sitting on my to-read shelf for months
Jason Griffey created a wordle from the tweets, take a look at it full-sized it’s awesome.
Griffey's Wordle from IL 2009 Tweets
*I was fortunate on my travels home, I did make it home with only minor delays (comparatively) and missing one bag which showed up 24 hours later, intact. I am grateful I was able to attend and extremely grateful for all the people who talked with me in hallway, coffee shop, sessions halls, exhibit halls, at dinner & coffee, and on the street. I wish we’d had more time to talk. I wish I’d had the nerve to approach more people I only know by name, I’m a little socially awkward. (Once I get to know you, you can’t shut me up) I vow to do better next time. Until then, ciao!
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