Response to "Is Twitter a 2 way Street?"

From the Freaknomics Blog, we learned that actually there is no necessary connection between following more people and being followed by more people. It can be possible that you follow a large number of people but the followers on your tweeter are reducing, while some other people do not follow many but have lots of followers. So, how to attract more followers on Twitter? In one way, you should be active and post some interesting tweets regularly on your Twitter, and gradually you might become famous on Twitter and followed by more people. For instance, Halpern’s tweeter has many followers because his writing about the shit that Halpern’s dad says, which attracts many readers attention. And the second is that you are a famous and popular person in real life, and there will be many followers on your blog. 

Wikipedia Editing

Before editing:

It is the education part of Wenzhou in wikipedia page. We found a mistake that the Wenzhou Medical College has changed its name to Wenzhou Medical University, but in the Wikipedia it hasn’t been changed.


Here are evidences from Wikipedia and Official site of Wenzhou Medical University:  

After editing:

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou#Education

Infographic Project

Model infographic

“Behind The Scenes of Viral Music” By Fandistro

Link: http://www.designinfographics.com/social-media-infographics/behind-the-scenes-of-viral-music

Useful: use data by creating a chart or graph to draw attention; display six elements that make music go viral by using vivid pictures with few text explanations; use images to present idea.

Not useful: the graph in this infographic looks common; use repeated images to show the number of an object.

How does the model accommodate its content?

This model accommodate this TEDtalk content for the reasons that firstly the beginning of the TEDtalk uses several digital data to draw attention which can be translated in a chart like the model infographic shows; secondly, the TEDtalk later tells three reasons why we are losing our listening and five exercises to improve our conscious listening. These contents can be transformed into infographic with specific images and text explanation just like model infographic, and keeps the similar pattern.

My TEDtalk:
Julian Treasure: "5 Ways to Listen Better"
Outline:

1.      Generally talks about the phenomenon that people are losing their listening.

2.      Listening is a mental process of extraction.

Listening techniques: pattern recognition and differencing.

Intention is important in listening.

3.      Sound places us in space and in time.

4.      The reasons we are losing our listening:

a)        We invented ways of recording

b)        The world is now so noisy

c)        We are becoming impatient and desensitized

5.      Five exercises to improve our conscious listening:

a)        Silence: to hear the quiet

b)        Mixer: listen in a noisy environment

c)        Savoring: enjoying mundane sounds

d)       Listening positions: move listening position to what's appropriate to what you're listening to

e)        An acronym—RASA: receive; appreciate; summarize; ask

6.      The importance for human being to listen consciously.

My Infographic draft:

Entry 9

Twitter bot is a non-official client application for Twitter acts like an intelligent robot helps to tweet and reply instantly along with retweets, favorites, and quotes. In our Twitter Narratives, the twitter bot is a person whose comments generate conflicts between our company and customers. Our company is named Hash which is in the form of family-owned business, we open restaurant and provides different kinds of hash.

The story happens when one customer in our restaurant posts a tweet in our company twitter, which writes that the hash in the restaurant is so delicious that he is totally addicted to it. Then there is another people pretends to be the twitter bot and catches the keywords which are "hash" and "addicted". So the twitter bot makes a command, "Oh my god! People eat hash, the drug, in that restaurant. It is illegal! We cannot eat at that restaurant anymore!"

In this story, the twitter bot misunderstands the meaning of "hash", which makes a conflict. Is our restaurant illegal? Should people stay away from our restaurant? The managers of this restaurant then face a fake rumor and need to fight for company’s reputation and legalization.

Entry 8

Response to "Infographic Thinking Workshop"

From the reading I think this infographic thinking workshop is very meaningful, for nowadays the images and infographic play a more important role and widely used for people from different occupations to convey ideas and information. Also this infographic thinking workshop pays more attention on creativity, to visually convey ideas and meaning rather than traditionally think it as visual elements for recording. So with the creativity, during the process of making infographic, we can recognize new meaning and knowledge. And with the infographic thinking which approach and interpret reality, today we can also use infographic to translate a complex issue into an effective and recognizable visual form, which helps us to understand the reality and discover new knowledge. Therefore, from the idea of this workshop, it is clear that infographics actually can inspire and encourage critical thinking to the readers, rather than just convey ideas and make them have a better understanding about the information. And it is really meaningful for the workshop to develop infographic for visual communication and better understanding of reality since it has wide range of applications today.

TEDTalk for Infographic

TEDTalk: Julian Treasure: "5 Ways to Listen Better"

Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_5_ways_to_listen_better/transcript#t-343000

Outline:

1.      Generally talks about the phenomenon that people are losing their listening.

2.      Listening is a mental process of extraction.

Listening techniques: pattern recognition and differencing.

Intention is important in listening.

3.      Sound places us in space and in time.

4.      The reasons we are losing our listening:

a)        We invented ways of recording

b)        The world is now so noisy:

c)        We are becoming impatient and desensitized

5.      Five exercises to improve our conscious listening:

a)        Silence: to hear the quiet

b)        Mixer: listen in a noisy environment

c)        Savoring: enjoying mundane sounds

d)       Listening positions: move listening position to what's appropriate to what you're listening to

e)        An acronym—RASA: receive; appreciate; summarize; ask

6.      The importance for human being to listen consciously.

Evaluate:

1). It is a good TEDTalk because the speaker clearly clarifies the importance of conscious listening and the serious problem that we are losing our listening. He then provides five relatively easy exercises to help improve our conscious listening. The whole speech is very logical and persuasive with clear interpretation about current situation why we are losing our listening and the importance of listening. Also, the speaker provides a lot of specific examples to help audience understand the content better, and makes the speech more attractive.

2). I think this TEDTalk is also a good subject to turn into an infographic. Firstly this TEDTalk has a very clear theme and organization, so it is easy to find out the main points of the content and divide them into different part clearly to make an infographic. The information can be visualized. And the speaker also provides many vivid examples that can be transformed into images for the infographic. 

Alphabet

(From Lisa Rienermann's project "Type the Sky"). The alphabet made from photos of looking up at buildings.

Link: http://www.feeldesain.com/type-in-the-sky.html