Comments for Katherine's EDC blog https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth Another Education and digital culture 2015 site Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:05:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Comment on On living on the other side of the world: Final reflection by sbayne https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/22/on-living-on-the-other-side-of-the-world-final-reflection/#comment-459 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:05:41 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=392#comment-459 The reflection here is poignant – and I think you raise some really important questions about time and distance. A PhD student of mine, and colleague on the programme – Phil Sheail – has just finished her thesis on time and distance learning. She discusses and provides some wonderful insights on how the spatial focus of online education (the distance in distance learning) means that we often tend to underplay temporal distancing. Phil’s critique of ‘anytime’ learning is partly that it hides the inequalities and challenges of temporal disjuncture under a facade of ‘flexibility': it meshes really interestingly with what you say here, and I’d be really intrigued to hear more of your thoughts on it. Could this, temporality, be an interesting focus for your final assignment?

]]> Comment on Weeks 8-9 on Twitter by sbayne https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/14/weeks-8-9-on-twitter/#comment-448 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:09:09 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=381#comment-448 That works now Katherine, thanks.

]]> Comment on Playing with algorithms 3: But what about Twitter? by Katherine https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/15/playing-with-algorithms-3-but-what-about-twitter/#comment-443 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:29:21 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=355#comment-443 Okay, did some research (my two blogs are now the top results for that search term!).

Most of all, mobile users are usually in a different frame of mind than desktop users. We can’t really make any precise assumptions about the context of the device usage, but compared to desktop usage they quite often will be standing up and walking around or driving, and sometimes just scanning their handset or tablet. This might call for less detailed content than what you would use for more focused desktop users. Instead of presenting all of the day’s news items, for example, tracking unread items or the most popular trending items might be more important. Users might also want different content depending on their location.Smashing Magazine

Interestingly, this suggests that mobile users might want more “popular trending items” rather than less.

But the article goes on to say:

Other times, such as when waiting for a connecting flight, mobile users will have more time on their hands and attention to spare.

Therefore, the app might be responding to how most people are now using their mobiles (at home, while commuting, with time to spare), or at least how I use my mobile (definitely desktop Twitter is used between other work, where as mobile Twitter is regularly used instead of television as an extended leisure activity).

]]> Comment on Playing with algorithms 3: But what about Twitter? by Katherine https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/15/playing-with-algorithms-3-but-what-about-twitter/#comment-442 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:19:17 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=355#comment-442 Thanks Jeremy!
That’s a good question. My guess is that, based on more limited data, Twitter is not going to personalise it’s curation quite so individually. Instead, it will make assumptions that I will behave like ‘most’ people. Popularity therefore is going to be significant–‘lots of people like this, so you are more likely like this’. This is a reasonable assumption to make for a generic user.
The app, on the other hand, is able to weigh up more data points (for me, because of how I use it), and therefore was able to be more specific. Because I have a lot of niche interests, the distinction is visible on my two timelines. If I engaged more with popular tweets, I doubt that would have been so clear.
That’s my guess, but I’m about to go off and do some more research, as Ed suggests!

]]> Comment on Playing with algorithms 3: But what about Twitter? by Katherine https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/15/playing-with-algorithms-3-but-what-about-twitter/#comment-441 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:13:03 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=355#comment-441 Thanks PJ, I really appreciate it! I’m enjoying including more food!

]]> Comment on Playing with algorithms 3: But what about Twitter? by Katherine https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/15/playing-with-algorithms-3-but-what-about-twitter/#comment-440 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:12:32 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=355#comment-440 Woah! That’s very surprising! thanks Ed!
Yes, I suspect that geolocation data would be used, but I live pretty close to where I work, so I wouldn’t expect that to factor in the differences.
I’d be interested in what the differences are between typical desktop and mobile use (I would assume something to do with ‘work’ vs ‘leisure’, but I’ll have to search!).

]]> Comment on Weeks 8-9 on Twitter by Katherine https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/14/weeks-8-9-on-twitter/#comment-439 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:09:43 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=381#comment-439 Sorry, Sian. I’ve tried again!

]]> Comment on Week 9 reflection by Tweet archive and the Tweetorial | Katherine's EDC blog https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/15/week-9-reflection/#comment-438 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 01:55:58 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=379#comment-438 […] my reflection on week 9, I […]

]]> Comment on QuillConnect vs. Twitter Discovery: Duelling algorithms by Katherine https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/17/quillconnect-vs-twitter-discovery-duelling-algorithms/#comment-437 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 01:21:03 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=375#comment-437 Thanks PJ! And thanks for inspiring me to go back! (I was fascinated to finally dig into what a bunraku puppet looks like–I still know so little about Japanese culture!)

]]> Comment on Weeks 8-9 on Twitter by sbayne https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/03/14/weeks-8-9-on-twitter/#comment-430 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:06:12 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=381#comment-430 Katherine – this link didn’t work for me – is something amiss?

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