‘Multimodality’ is a term that is now widely used in the academic world，which was first coined in the mid-1990s. It is used, for instance, by Charles Goodwin, in a seminal article that he submitted to the Journal of Pragmatics in 1998 (Goodwin, 2000)Since then, a myriad of conferences, monographs, edited volumes and other academic discussion …
Reflections on Machines of Knowledge & Design Thinking and Maker Culture
Reflection
The Quantified Self: Analyzing the Sleep Quality Monitoring Application Snail Sleep
Introduction With the unceasing development on the digital technology, a variety of tasks can be conducted that are unprecedented in before. Such evolution allows people not only to be more capable in their daily life and work, but more importantly render them to have a better knowledge of their own self. To that term, health-tracking …
Transformation in Digital Cultures
This course focuses on digitalization and its transformations for society and culture. Digitalization, the process of integrating digital technologies into all areas of our lives, has produced new interfaces between society, culture and doing social research. We will discuss how the architecture of the web controls but also enables user practices. User and (online) communities …
Real Virtualities
Media extend our senses and our engagement with the world—as Marshall McLuhan, the father of media studies, famously said. In this process they do not leave things untouched, but transform how we experience our environment and how we act in it. Through news media we are an immediate witness to events all over the globe. …
Ideas for creating a blog
Anecdote about my experience in UM
When I am on the online tutorial class, my cat keeps appearing in the camera. He passes by behind me, then stops at my feet and starts licking his own fur. I think, fortunately, he does not appear in my camera, otherwise the situation will become very awkward. As I continue to concentrate in class, the cat suddenly begins to lick my leg. So I …
