Saturday, October 31, 2015

Beech marten: Brilliant, Draxtor! ~ The Drax Files: World Makers [Episode 33: Luxembourg 1867], To "Machinima," "Museums" (all with free online content in all countries!), "The City," "Modernity," "Virtual Worlds" at WUaS plus potentially informing creating a film-realistic, interactive, 3D and group-buildable virtual earth / virtual universe in something like in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with OpenSim/Second Life


 Brilliant, Draxtor! ... 


The Drax Files: World Makers [Episode 33: Luxembourg 1867]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uPUGxMiGk 

... I'll add this eventually in a variety of ways to World University and School (WUaS) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org. We just donated CC WUaS to CC Wikidata yesterday and we are planning a film-realistic, interactive, 3D, build-able virtual earth like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with Second Life/OpenSim!. Thank you all for this great Machinima, and here's the Machinima wiki subject page for open teaching and learning - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Machinima_Videos_(Making) - prior to moving to Wikidata, but as a kind of template! 


Museums (all with free online content in all countries!) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums


The City
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_City

Modernity
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Modernity

History
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/History


Virtual worlds
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds

Luxembourg isn't yet begun ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States


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and for
ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy especially

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy



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Friday, October 30, 2015

Blue-and-yellow macaw: Glad to be giving this UC Berkeley talk on F Nov 6 at 5pm, NAKED HARBIN AND ETHNO-WIKI-VIRTUAL-WORLD-GRAPHY: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies, Science & the Social Sciences, http://tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm ... My 2012 Harbin talk at UC Berkeley TSWG plus:



The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to announce

NAKED HARBIN AND ETHNO-WIKI-VIRTUAL-WORLD-GRAPHY:
Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies,
Science & the Social Sciences


Scott MacLeod
(Founder, World University and School)
Friday, Nov. 6, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hal
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract:
In this paper, I characterize Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy as a new digital methodology for tourism studies, science & the social Sciences in relation to my upcoming Harbin Hot Springs Actual/Virtual Ethnography: "Naked Harbin: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin." I further examine the significance of this in relation to my tourism studies' paper from 2001 "Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)" in terms of modernity, post-modernity, advertising discourse and Internetity (the information age). I then suggest ways in which a film-realistic, interactive, 3D and group-buildable virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual universe in something like in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with OpenSim/Second Life will and can be used in both science and social science for research. I'll conclude with ways brainwave headsets and similar will be incorporated for research with this. Emerging from the University of Toronto Press's publishing of Marshall McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy" in 1962, as well as UC Berkeley Professor Manuel Castell's book "The Internet Galaxy" (Oxford 2001) which comes into conversation with McLuhan's book, I suggest here that a virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual universe in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with OpenSim/Second Life, as wiki and for STEM research, especially ethnography too, which is explicitly explored in my actual/virtual Harbin anthropological book, will lead beyond McLuhan and Castell's thinking to a new film-realistic 3D interactive build-able wiki-informed virtual earth galaxy.

Speaker Bio:
Scott MacLeod's research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's written an ethnographic book, "Naked Harbin" about Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, with a virtual world aspect, due to be published in 2016 - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html. He's the founder, president, CEO, a faculty member and presiding clerk of wiki CC World University and School (which is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare and planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC - http://worlduniversityandschool.org). Scott continues to teach "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" regularly on Harvard's virtual island (not on Harvard University's faculty) in Second Life, and in Google group video Hangouts. He's teaches both anthropology and sociology.

Personal web site: http://www.scottmacleod.com


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My 2012 Harbin talk at UC Berkeley TSWG:

Live, interactive broadcast for my UC Berkeley Tourism Studies' talk "Naked, Virtual Harbin"


http://tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm
(http://tourismstudies.org/Colloquia_2012-2013.htm)


- and here plus more:

Naked Harbin, Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies and Sciences & the Social Sciences, Dancing Skin - Earthpeople Comedy Club, Berkeley, California, UC Berkeley TSWG colloquium announcement and actual video from 2012
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/naked-harbin-ethno-wiki-virtual-world.html


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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Wild Bactrian camel: [Wikidata] Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to celebrate CC Wikidata's 3rd birthday!, Archive.org version of World University and School MediaWiki, Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Presents


Dear Lydia, Markus, Magnus, Runa (of the Languages' Engineering Team) and Wikidatans,

(see, too: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/10/donation-of-cc-world-university-school.html)

Re: Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to celebrate CC Wikidata's 3rd birthday!

After much preparation, CC World University and School is donating CC WUaS's 720 wiki pages in Wikia - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/ and which is accessible here http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - as well as plans for an all languages and all countries' wiki university and school, to CC Wikidata for and on its third birthday.

At Lydia's suggestion to write this, here too in the following blog link is "World University and School's proposal to prepare to donate WUaS to Wikidata September 2015, World University Realistic Detailed Proposal as a Set of Instructions," a proposal for donating CC World University and School, planned in all 7,941+ languages as wiki schools, as well as WUaS universities (offering Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees as well as I.B. high school diplomas), and accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to begin, planned online in all - 200 countries' main languages, for Wikidata's 3rd birthday - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/asian-black-bear-world-university-and.html. Law Schools, Medical Schools and related accredited great universities, planned in all countries' main languages, are therefore part of this donation. STEM-centric World University and School seeks to become the Harvard of the Internet in all 7,941+ languages and accredited in all ~259+ countries.

You'll also find this WUaS-Wikidata realistic proposal here in GDocs - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n02XHzbTE8rY14p-ei6WSNtCQZ8AYscgwI6ncMXolpo/edit?usp=sharing - where I'm continuing to add further resources.

Is there a way to turn this donation into a Wikipedia entry even eventually, Lydia? Thank you!

I look forward to further celebrations of Wikidata's 3rd birthday with you, everyone and Wikidatans. Cheers!

Happy birthday, Wikidata! :)

Best regards, Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/


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(Here is an archive.org version of World University and School MediaWiki - https://web.archive.org/web/20150324001526/http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page).


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[Wikidata] Happy 3rd Birthday, Wikidata!

Lydia Pintscher via lists.wikimedia.org 

4:29 PM (21 hours ago)

to DiscussionWikimedia

Hey everyone :)

Today we are celebrating Wikidata's 3rd birthday. I've been with the
project since we started development 3.5 years ago and I can't believe
what a ride it has been and how far we've come.

As for every birthday celebrations are in order. We've created a page
at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday. There you
can find editorials (by Harmonia Amanda, Ash Crow and me) about the
past year and what is coming. Please take a moment to read it. There
you will also find a section for congratulations and wishes, presents
and more.

Here's to many more years of Wikidata. Stay as awesome as you are!


Cheers
Lydia


PS: The development team has presents as well. I'll send an email
about them in a few hours. Ohhh the suspense :D

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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.

Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Wikidata: Third_Birthday/Presents
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Presents

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See, too:

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/10/donation-of-cc-world-university-school.html















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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Alagoas curassow: Interesting WASC senior and BPPE accreditation agency incubation and enabling developments, In addition to Ph.D. Bachelor degrees, first in English and then in MIT OCW and large languages, WUaS would like to accredit online law and medical schools in all countries' main languages, beginning in California


Interesting WASC senior and BPPE accreditation agency incubation and enabling developments 

See too - 

4/06/15

WASC Senior Commission Issues New Guidelines on Third-Party Providers


5/12/15

New Pathways for Unaccredited Entities and Non-Institutional Education Provider


7/9/15

California Approves Pathway for Non-Profit Institutions to Maintain Exemption from State Oversight


10/16/15

Further Refinement to Accreditation in Higher Education


(accessible from this list: https://www.cooley.com/education?Alerts=True).


In reviewing these interesting accreditation agency incubation and enabling developments further, I don't see explicit reference to enabling online degrees (and which degrees might also be CC MIT OCW-centric in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to begin) at WASC senior, and hope the Cooley updates might also eventually report on this. 


In addition to Ph.D. Bachelor degrees, first in English and then in MIT OCW and large languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

World University and School would like to accredit online law schools in all countries' main languages, beginning in California - 

World University and School would like to accredit online medical schools in all countries' main languages, also beginning in California - 


I also find the following announcement from VP Joe Biden about 4 years of free college exciting -  




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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Moonfish - Opah: WUaS Universal Translator with this ancient Greek to English example, Fascinating to add to an Universal Translator a hypothetical 10 translations of "Electra," with all of their interpretations of multiple metaphors in this play, derive a set of rules and vocabulary from these translations, synthesize these rules into the Universal Translator (perhaps in CC Wikidata written for Wikipedia's ~300 languages), and then use these rules with developing machine learning to generate further Ancient Greek > English translations, and in all other 7,941+ language combinations as well, Hum 101 course World University and School would like to offer to all matriculating students online beginning in 2017, building on Reed College's required first year Hum 110 course (about the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and thinking), Also concerning conceiving of an universal translator in Wikidata, I wonder whether aliases (of an "entity," "item," or "property") could be used to add, for example, 1000 possible hypothetical translations of a sentence or a phrase (from any text), and then queried for the best translation.

Fascinating to add to an Universal Translator a hypothetical 10 translations of "Electra," with

all of their interpretations of multiple metaphors in this play,

derive a set of rules and vocabulary from these translations,

synthesize these rules into the Universal Translator (perhaps in CC Wikidata written for Wikipedia's ~300 languages), and then

use these rules with developing machine learning to generate further Ancient Greek > English translations,

and in all other 7,941+ language combinations as well.


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WUaS Universal Translator -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator



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Dear Prof. Englert,

Greetings from the SF Bay Area (Canyon, actually, near St. Mary's in Moraga). I hope this finds you well. A friend of mine, Scot Campbell in SF, who has just completed two films asked me recently how best to translate this passage from ancient Greek from Electra for a project he's developing. (I went to Reed from 1979-1985 and was a housemate of Reed Dance Professor Carla Mann for some years).


Here's the passage from Electra that we want to translate, with the metaphor intact.  Thanks!

"ALL OUTOI TON GEX AIDA PANGKOINOU LIMNAS PATER ANSTASEIS OUTE GOOIS OUTE EUXAIS"


Google Translate suggests "THE OTHER he GEX THESE PANGKOINOU stagnation Father ANSTASEIS NOR NOR EFCHAIS GOOUS" :)

And World University and School's Universal Translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - is still in the planning stages, as we prepare to donate CC WUaS to CC Wikidata, the inter-lingual database written for Wikipedia's now 300 languages.
Could you possibly please suggest a translation or online resource for translating this with metaphor intact? Thank you. 

Best regards,
Scott



Dear Scott,

Thanks for the note.  I’m glad to hear your in the Bay Area.  Canyon is beautiful - I got to know it when I was an undergraduate there in the 70s.

The line you mention is from Sophocles’ Electra, lines 137-139

The Greek is:  


A good translation of the lines is that of Richard Jebb (available on the Perseus website):

"But never by weeping nor by prayer will you resurrect your father from the pool of Hades which receives all men.

I hope this helps!

Yours,

Wally


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Dear Wally,
Thanks so much. I'll pass on this helpful translation to my friend Scot. As an anthropologist and having lived in Canyon for nearly 7 years now, I'm curious what you might have gotten to know about Canyon. What was it like then?

As a kind of associated benefit from learning of this helpful translation ( http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%.01.0188 ) and also as a kind of brainstorm in planning and in thinking through a WUaS Universal Translator with this ancient Greek to English example, it would be fascinating to add to an U.T. a hypothetical 10 translations of "Electra," with all of their interpretations of multiple metaphors in this play, derive a set of rules and vocabulary from these translations, synthesize these rules into the Universal Translator (perhaps in CC Wikidata written for Wikipedia's ~300 languages), and then use these rules with developing machine learning to generate further Ancient Greek > English translations.

Thanks again so much.

Yours,
Scott


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Wally,

Thank you!

As a kind of associated benefit from learning of this helpful translation (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%.01.0188) and also as a kind of brainstorm in planning and in thinking through a WUaS Universal Translator with this ancient Greek to English example, it would be fascinating to add to an U.T. a hypothetical 10 translations of "Electra," with all of their interpretations of multiple metaphors in this play, derive a set of rules and vocabulary from these translations, synthesize these rules into the Universal Translator (perhaps in CC Wikidata written for Wikipedia's ~300 languages), and then use these rules with developing machine learning to generate further Ancient Greek > English translations.

Scott


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Scot ... I appreciate too the opportunity now to connect further with Wally about the Hum 101 course World University and School would like to offer to all matriculating students online beginning in 2017, building on Reed College's required first year Hum 110 course (about the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and thinking) which Reed has taught nearly a century, and where the Conference Method (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning) is also taught, an approach to learning which will probably be central at WUaS. Wally is a kind of head of it, since he teaches classics, and has been at Reed for so long.
Cheers,
Scott


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Also concerning conceiving of an universal translator in Wikidata, I wonder whether aliases (of an "entity," "item," or "property" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary#Entities.2C_items.2C_properties_and_queries) could be used to add, for example, 1000 possible hypothetical translations of a sentence or a phrase (from any text), and then queried for the best translation.




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Monday, October 26, 2015

Point Reyes: Cloud alights


Cloud alights in the
vale to the east,
with delight,
while Canyon's
visibile ridge with
forest, to the west,
is graced with morning orange.

Illuminated cloud,
in its vale to the east,
glows in pink gray.
Beautiful morning orange,
on western vale side,
diffuses to light,
while its closer forest side,
remains quietly subdued.

To the east, the
Taoist water dragon form's
inner light intensifies,
with vapors along its top,
wisping and moving, the water
dragon's spine ridge alive
with little crests and plumes.
The Canyon valley to west,
above post office and school,
proclaims its steady forestedness
in the growing morning light.

The eastern vale
grows with light of day,
its friendly cloud form
sinking down, merging
in oneness with its hollow,
disappearing as the day warms,
glowing and hovering.

Greet the morn,
Welcome the day,
My mother is visiting the Bay.
Time to explore and
travel together
to Point Reyes.





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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Sequoiadendron giganteum: Theorizing and Thinking about Psychology and Therapeutically, Evolutionary Biology?, Re-evaluation Counseling, DSM, Quakers/Friends?, Lacan, Language, Meditation


Nice to see you, Scot!
Here are some "exigencies of being human" resources re John Money and theorizing psychology  - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/05/swiss-mountains-dr-paul-moncayo.html ... and

re Jacques Lacan, this is a fascinating video of him from around 1970 in Belgium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31iQQTPY-kA - (from whose theory I depart from in terms of psychodynamic theory) and

re primatology (and by extension evolutionary biology, which is also a blog label here).

There are such "holes" in psychological theory in general, in terms of

effective psychotherapy, and which are further

complicated by socioeconomics' questions - and

... {especially re psychodynamic theory) and re primatology (and by extension evolutionary biology, which is also a blog label here}, and also

re Friends' hospitals, and subculture questions.


I'll explore a translation of the ancient Greek you sent with Wally!

Regards,
Scott


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re Re-evaluation counseling
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/09/re-our-conversation-about-music.html

intellectually interesting ...

and re learning too

all languages ...

and


re meditation



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For a theory of psychology or body/mind for effective psychotherapy, see too:

Eastern cottonhead rabbit: Building on John Money’s exigencies in his section on “Concepts of Determinism” to inform a new kind of theory for talk psychotherapy and study of this clinically, What could such developments add to current outcomes, and especially in terms of diagnoses, as well as in terms of happiness-generation? {e.g engage music, engage loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting, engage Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience," plus, ... as well as strategy vis-a-vis these exigencies to do so ?}, Develop this in the psychiatry department of Friends' Hospital in Philadelphia (in the context of medicine, psychiatry and Quakers)?, Here's Michael First, the author of the DSM V, in VIDEO talking about its recent publication - DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis: Meet the Author, "Psychiatry," "Psychology," "Psychotherapy," as well as the "Hospital" wiki subjects at WUaS

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/05/eastern-cottonhead-rabbit-building-on.html


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Swiss mountains: Dr. Raul Moncayo interviews on Jacques Lacan ... John Money ... Primatology ... HAI ... Harbin Hot Springs ... virtual HAI at Harbin ... intellectually interesting ... Theorizing psychotherapy / psychoanalysis anew, and in the information age, and re WUaS, Virtual Harbin, France WUaS as Harvard of the Internet in French?, Quakers and Pyschoanalysis, Caring and love ... as neurophysiology?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/05/swiss-mountains-dr-paul-moncayo.html


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Friday, October 23, 2015

Wild Rose: Group Video for Online Music-Making and with Smartphone too for Real, Real Time Playing ... just thinking about what makes playing/practicing fun ... Your playing-via-phone insight (for groups too) is brilliant for closer-to-real-real-time, Barbara ... I want to get the basic microphones and gear eventually for professional recording with this Google Hangout Phone setup :), Great, eventually, for the online Music School at WUaS planned for ALL musical instruments, each a wiki subject school to begin, in all 7,941+ languages


Practicing piano with Tricia Woods' Blues' book - 

very helpful pedagogically/for learning and there are three volumes 

but I like the sociality of playing Monday Scottish Country Dancing,

playing for dancers, 

keying in on Pi's playing as lead, 

the openness and flexibility, 

P's Berkeley musical minded social psychology and energy ... 

just thinking about what makes playing/practicing fun ... 

How to generate this in a Google group video Hangout with smartphone too for learning's sake and in many genres and languages (and even with dancers)? :)


Your playing-via-phone insight (for groups too) is brilliant for closer-to-real-real-time, Barbara ... I want to get the basic microphones and gear eventually for professional recording with this Google Hangout Phone setup :)

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Great, eventually, for the online Music School at WUaS planned for ALL musical instruments, each a wiki subject school to begin, in all 7,941+ languages.

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School







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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Naked Harbin, Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies and Sciences & the Social Sciences, Dancing Skin - Earthpeople Comedy Club, Berkeley, California, UC Berkeley TSWG colloquium announcement and actual video from 2012


Dear Scott,
Your TSWG talk is in just 2 weeks (on F, Nov. 6 at 5pm in the UC Berkeley Anthropology Building's Gifford Room)!
Can you please send us:

Title:

Naked Harbin, Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies and Science & the Social Sciences

Abstract:


Emerging from the University of Toronto Press's publishing of Marshall McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy" in 1962, as well as UC Berkeley Professor Manuel Castell's book "The Internet Galaxy" (Oxford 2001) which comes into conversation with McLuhan's book, I suggest here that a virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual universe in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with OpenSim/SL, as wiki and for STEM research, especially ethnography too, which is explicitly explored in my actual/virtual Harbin anthropological book, will lead beyond McLuhan and Castell's thinking to a new film-realistic 3D interactive build-able wiki-informed virtual earth galaxy.



Bio paragraph:

Scott MacLeod's research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture.  He's written an ethnographic book about Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, with a virtual world aspect,  due to be published by ... in 2016.
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

He's the founder, president, CEO, faculty member and presiding clerk of wiki CC World University and School (which is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare and planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC - http://worlduniversityandschool.org).

Personal web site: http://ww.scottmacleod.com

Scott continues to teach "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" regularly on Harvard's virtual Island (not on Harvard University's faculty) in Second Life, and in Google group video Hangouts. He's teaches both anthropology and sociology.

(See, too: http://tourismstudies.org/People.htm#SM)

Photo: Preferably illustrating the topic.

Thank you,

Nelson


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Hi Nelson and Mahlon,

My mother has been visiting this weekend and is leaving tomorrow but in the interest of timeliness, here's the information you requested to post:


Title:

Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies, Science & the Social Sciences


Abstract:

In this paper, I characterize Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy as a new digital methodology for tourism studies, science & the social Sciences in relation to my upcoming Harbin Hot Springs Actual/Virtual Ethnography: “Naked Harbin: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin.” I further examine the significance of this in relation to my tourism studies' paper from 2001 “Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)” in terms of modernity, post-modernity, advertising discourse and Internetity (the information age). I then suggest ways in which a film-realistic, interactive, 3D and group-buildable virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual universe in something like in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with OpenSim/Second Life will and can be used in both science and social science for research. I’ll conclude with ways brainwave headsets and similar will be incorporated for research with this. Emerging from the University of Toronto Press's publishing of Marshall McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy" in 1962, as well as UC Berkeley Professor Manuel Castell's book "The Internet Galaxy" (Oxford 2001) which comes into conversation with McLuhan's book, I suggest here that a virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual universe in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with OpenSim/Second Life, as wiki and for STEM research, especially ethnography too, which is explicitly explored in my actual/virtual Harbin anthropological book, will lead beyond McLuhan and Castell's thinking to a new film-realistic 3D interactive build-able wiki-informed virtual earth galaxy.


Bio paragraph:

Scott MacLeod's research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's written an ethnographic book, "Naked Harbin" about Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, with a virtual world aspect, due to be published in 2016 - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html. He's the founder, president, CEO, a faculty member and presiding clerk of wiki CC World University and School (which is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare and planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC - http://worlduniversityandschool.org). Scott continues to teach "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" regularly on Harvard's virtual island (not on Harvard University's faculty) in Second Life, and in Google group video Hangouts. He's teaches both anthropology and sociology. Personal web site: http://www.scottmacleod.com


Photo: http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbtoispYZi1qe1hoqo1_540.jpg or https://web.archive.org/web/20151023200242/http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbtoispYZi1qe1hoqo1_540.jpg

I've updated this blog post with the above information as well: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/naked-harbin-ethno-wiki-virtual-world.html

Thank you,
Scott


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Here's the UC Berkeley TSWG colloquium announcement and actual video from 2012 -
http://tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm

Live, interactive broadcast for my UC Berkeley Tourism Studies' talk "Naked, Virtual Harbin"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op2W_V5xUtM

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Avalanche Lake: These National Park Service virtual tours are very cool and thanks for mentioning them, And eventually interactive movie realistic in 3D and group-buildable, Could the National Park Service fund a kind of realism in a virtual world that would help them respond to forest fires and global warming in real time?, They could easily dovetail with a developing realistic virtual earth and for virtual Harbin ethnographic research too, "Methodologies for ethnographically studying virtual place," Apropos the Tourism Studies Working Group on Friday evening at UC Berkeley, I'm glad to be giving a talk at UC Berkeley on Friday, November 6th on methodologies for ethnographically studying virtual place - and re http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy



Abies magnifica - red fir forest: Many students were around at UC Berkeley yesterday, University was in session but it's changed a lot since the 1960s and '70s!, The radicalism of Berkeley is only in the woodwork, Edited through p200 of 440 pp in my Harbin manuscript indexing process and drafted a proposal to University of Toronto Press all from the UC Berkeley Free Speech cafe

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

Siganus puellus: Naked Harbin ~ New Website for 'Naked Harbin' Book ~ Promoting My Upcoming Ethnography ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ 3 Related Videos, UC Berkeley Talk, Related social media posts

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Blue-ish: Harbin Hot Springs

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/02/blue-ish-harbin-hot-springs_09.html

Lemon: Alternative Places in Europe, World Wide & the Harbin Dressing Room

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/10/lemon-alternative-places-in-europe.html




Immersive experiences can be inspiring, surprising and exciting for end users, Actual Harbin Hot Springs pools are also immersive

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