Here is the slide deck and audio recording of a recent lecture I gave to my NYU ITP2800 students. The topic was “Building an Effective User Experience for Mobile Smartphone Applications Used Under Duress”, with the ideas and content coming from an earlier blog post / crowd-sourced effort on this topic. I still consider this [...]
One of my students at ITP is working on a mobile application for the Android platform that will be used under duress and in generally stressful conditions. These situations might include documenting children at a refugee camp, capturing medical information in a remote clinic, or identifying victims after a national disaster.
I’d like to use this [...]
Some choice adhoc quotes that tumbled out of my brain during the Congressional hearing on new media, titled “Twitter against Tyrants”, that I spoke on last Thursday in Washington, D.C..
“I’ve learned an important lesson in working with the Tibetan
independence movement and others: It’s that we can’t presume what people are
willing – are or are not [...]
Below is my rough statement for the US Helsinki Commission “Twitter v. Tyrants” hearing this Thursday. I would greatly appreciate any of your comments and feedback, as I will be polishing this up a bit before the hearing Thursday and before I formally submit it into record. I mostly wonder whether I have made to [...]
I’m honored to have been asked to participate in a hearing being held by the US Helsinki Commission this Thursday, in Washington, D.C. While my enthusiasm for the power and potential of new media will be evident, I hope to bring a metered tone to this discussion, laying out a number of issues, including the [...]
Homework for Week 5
Catch up on previous weeks’ readings and homework that you haven’t turned in yet
Continue to develop and plan your cause with a target on being able to concisely explain it for your midterm and the next Speed Geek!
Review the content presented in class and decide on the approach (server vs client or [...]
Week 4 – September 29 Mobile Campaigns from Text to Video: Texting, Ringtones and Camera Phones
Homework:
1) Create diagrams for your cause proposal based on the pyramid and pillar diagrams below.
2) Read the following:
Gene Sharp, There Are Realistic Alternatives (PDF), The Albert Einstein Institution, 2003
CANVAS Core Curriculum: [...]
Homework for week 3:
Readings:
“Of Secret Codes, Abbreviations, and Knowledge Lost and Gained” http://blog.thehenryford.org/2009/05/27/of-secret-codes-abbreviations-and-knowledge-lost-and-gained/
RNC 2004 in 160 Characters – http://www.scribd.com/doc/5403691/RNC04-in-160-Character-Bytes
TXTmob: Text Messaging For Protest Swarms http://web.media.mit.edu/~tad/pub/txtmob_chi05.pdf
MobileActive: Mobile Apps for Data Collection: http://mobileactive.org/wiki/Mobile_Applications_for_Data_Collection
Tasks
Listen to an online police or fire scanner stream for two hours and document what you hear. Specifically listen for codes, protocol and [...]
Here are is the homework, slides, notes, links and videos from the second week of ITP2800 – Social Activism using Mobile Technology.
Homework for Week 2
Watch the videos linked to here: http://delicious.com/nathanialfreitas/itp2800+week2
Continue reading/finish “Little Brother” http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
Take pictures or video using a camera phone or Flip-style device of something controversial or in a place where you might [...]
Here are the captured whiteboard brainstorms, audio (first hour only due to technical glitches) and my slides for the week 1 class of ITP2800. All of this content is hosted and available on http://drop.io/itp2800, with class bookmarks and homework reading assignments posted at http://delicious.com/nathanialfreitas/itp2800+week1. Week 1 homework assignments are listed at the end of [...]