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“Reporting Complexity (with Complexity): General Systems Theory,Complexity and Simulation Modeling“ See the PPT slides from a vid-conference lecture from Santa Fe to INDIANA UNIVERSITY –PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS School of Public and Environmental Affairs School of Journalism COURSE:Mass Media &Public Affairs March 31,2010 ============================================================================= In January,Team Santa Fe (Tom Johnson,Steve Guerin,Nick Bennett,and Alfredo Covaledo [Bogota]) rolled up in Havana to attend the 10th Congress of Complexity Studies in Cuba. (Steve,Nick and Alfredo also taught a day-long workshop on Netlogo and simulation modeling following the conference.) One of the conference attendees from the Univ. [...] Good NYTimes profile of NYU/Hoover Institute professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,who has spent 40+ years developing predictive models of socio-political activity. (Also a nice bit of promo for “The Predictioneer’s Game,” Bueno de Mesquita's book scheduled to come out next month.) “Of course,a somewhat high profile always proves to be an attractor. [...] We were pleased to see last week (via the NICAR listserv) that multiple newspapers,at least in the U.S.,have discovered they can get public records data bases,create specialized look-up tools for their frontends and post it/them on their web site. Let's keep on keeping on with this. It seems quite possibly that the [...] Assoc. Prof. Paul M. Torrens,at Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences (torrens at geosimulation dot com) continues to turn out interesting simulation models. Most recently they are about crowd movement,but the methods are applicable to many venues. See his work at Geosimulation.org
[...] Once again,O'Reilly's Radar tips us to an interesting application of cell phone GPS data,this time to illustrate daily traffic activity in Rome. Real Time Rome:Using Cellphones To Model a City's Movements Posted: 02 Jul 2007 01:14 PM CDT By Brady Forrest MIT's Senseable City Lab is using cellphone data to model Rome's populations. The project is called Real Time Rome. It is an exhibit at architecture conference La Biennale di Venezia's show Global Cities (shown Sept 10 –Nov 19 2006). There are descriptions about the exhibit from an MIT article about the exhibit:
A recent article worth a look over by the journalism community. What we do DOES have impact. Juan Carlos González-Avella,Mario G. Cosenza,Konstantin Klemm,Víctor M. Eguíluz and Maxi San Miguel (2007) From Ian Bogost's site,Watercooler Games:http://www.watercoolergames.org/archives/000794.shtml
The New York Times Publishes Our Newsgames May 24,2007 –by Ian Bogost Newsgames [...] From All Points Blog Monday,June 18. 2007 The Redistricting Game University of Southern California students developed the online game for the Annenburg Center for Communications to teach about the challenges (and partisanness) of redistricting. Along the way players learn that to keep their candidates elected they may need to examine ethical [...] A number of friends and associates,for whom we have the greatest respect,say this is one of the best,most enriching conferences in the U.S. It is not cheap,but there are vacation condos to be found in the area that would help to make this affordable. The IAJ plans to be there. Hope [...] | ||||||
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