what if we made weather more social?
DESCRIPTION
A talk I gave to the RENCI National Weather Service Technology Summit. The talk looks at how we construct conversation about weather, and how social technologies can improve our experience of weather data.TRANSCRIPT
What if we made weather
more social?
Fred StutzmanSchool of Information and Library Science
IANAL
I am not a linguist
Privacy
Identity
Adoption
Use
Beautiful
Cool
Beautiful
Cool
Privacy
Identity
Adoption
Use
Interests
Favorites
Pictures
Symbols, Signals
Language
Symbols
Meaning
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Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic Interactionism
People act in accordance with their subjective understandings of the situations in which they find themselves
People understand their experience throughthe meanings found in symbols
G. Ritzer, B. Ballis Lal, H. Blumer
37o F
.05” Accum.
Ptly. Cloudy
Cold
Snowy
Beautiful
Attributes Qualities
Symbols
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Attributes
DismalConstant
Tea... yumNo no no.
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Oak Forest, IL
No rain, light wind
Springfield, MA
Clear, Sunny, Low Humidity
Los Angeles, CA
Clear, Sunny, Low Humidity
What does “beautiful out today” mean?
Tweeter Temp/Dew Conditions
Dailylama, IL 56.8/51.7 No rain
Timclarkk, MA 57.7/22.2 Sunny, no rain
JaymeeOG, CA 67.3/23.4 Sunny, no rain
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Massive
Mobile
Networked
Do you need Twitterto know which way the wind
blows?Fred Stutzman:
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