Write down all the organizational structures from both readings with enough info to remember them.
Web Style Guide:
Themes to organize information include by:
Category
Time
Location
Alphabetic
Continuum
Card sorting and chunking are self explanatory.
Different types of hierarchy include:
Hub and Spoke (middle going out)
More complex (one starting point and several sub pages)
Web shows the links between different pages.
All of these start linear and get more and more complicated until you reach a web.
Wireframes are a rough outline, almost a sketch, of a website before it's built
Eyetracking:
How the eye moves through the page, 2 types the Poynter study where people work to the bottom then move back up and the F pattern and the golden triangle which shows how people typically start looking at the top left hand corner and move down.
Information Architecture:
Challenges include ambiguity, heterogeneity, differences in perspective, internal politics
Different organization schemes include:
Exact (mutually exclusive sections) such as alphabetical, chronological, geographical
Ambiguous (no clear definition) such as topical, task oriented, audience specific and metaphor driven
Hybrid mixes these
Hierarchy: top down, this can be narrow and deep or broad and shallow
Hypertext: connected in no specific way which allows for flexibility but can be confusing
Database: also a top down approach and is the most detailed
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Blog #6
Weinberger's main point was about everything becoming miscellaneous with the internet and how ways to organize things have completely changed resulting in a change in the way people communicate and learn.
Jenkins's main point was that the internet has led us to convergence culture which has caused communication to evolve into participatory culture.
Lessig's main point was that the internet has changed the way we view copyright and that creative industries are going to have to change, they can't change the public.
I think that their aren't really any crucial key terms to understand their points because I feel like the key terms are fairly self explanatory (miscellaneous, convergence, participatory culture, hybrid economies, remix) and we spent a lot of time going over them already I feel like they're been beaten to death. All three books really center around media convergence and how media and information are becoming more and more interconnected.
Connections:
All three books focus on participatory culture and convergence and how websites like Wikipedia have changed how we search for information and use information and how regular people are now major players in creating information. These books all discuss how the world is changing with the invention of the internet and the Net Generation which has had access to the internet basically their whole life and how that has made us process information very differently from generations past.
Final Project:
I think it's important for us to consider that while we are familiar with all the concepts discussed in all three of these books, many people that will visit the website are not and aren't used to using information like we are. This website and social media will have to be extremely basic and user friendly in a way that we would not necessarily consider. We have to reorganize this information with the people that Weinberger, Jenkins and Lessig wrote their books for in mind, not people our age who are used to the internet and the way information is organized with the internet.
Jenkins's main point was that the internet has led us to convergence culture which has caused communication to evolve into participatory culture.
Lessig's main point was that the internet has changed the way we view copyright and that creative industries are going to have to change, they can't change the public.
I think that their aren't really any crucial key terms to understand their points because I feel like the key terms are fairly self explanatory (miscellaneous, convergence, participatory culture, hybrid economies, remix) and we spent a lot of time going over them already I feel like they're been beaten to death. All three books really center around media convergence and how media and information are becoming more and more interconnected.
Connections:
All three books focus on participatory culture and convergence and how websites like Wikipedia have changed how we search for information and use information and how regular people are now major players in creating information. These books all discuss how the world is changing with the invention of the internet and the Net Generation which has had access to the internet basically their whole life and how that has made us process information very differently from generations past.
Final Project:
I think it's important for us to consider that while we are familiar with all the concepts discussed in all three of these books, many people that will visit the website are not and aren't used to using information like we are. This website and social media will have to be extremely basic and user friendly in a way that we would not necessarily consider. We have to reorganize this information with the people that Weinberger, Jenkins and Lessig wrote their books for in mind, not people our age who are used to the internet and the way information is organized with the internet.
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