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
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What if we made weather
more social?
Fred StutzmanSchool of Information and Library Science
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IANAL
I am not a linguist
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Privacy
Identity
Adoption
Use
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Beautiful
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Cool
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Beautiful
Cool
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Privacy
Identity
Adoption
Use
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Interests
Favorites
Pictures
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Symbols, Signals
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Language
Symbols
Meaning
http://bit.ly/3ALDU6
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http://bit.ly/2O4wws http://bit.ly/1SOCR7
Symbolic Interactionism
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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
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37o F
.05” Accum.
Ptly. Cloudy
Cold
Snowy
Beautiful
Attributes Qualities
Symbols
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http://bit.ly/2Hn9tC
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http://bit.ly/2Hn9tC
Attributes
DismalConstant
Tea... yumNo no no.
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http://bit.ly/dvYkRhttp://bit.ly/jkHN0
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Oak Forest, IL
No rain, light wind
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Springfield, MA
Clear, Sunny, Low Humidity
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Los Angeles, CA
Clear, Sunny, Low Humidity
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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
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Do you need Twitterto know which way the wind
blows?Fred Stutzman:
[email protected]://twitter.com/fstutzmanhttp://fredstutzman.com