Staying together: Understanding People and Media in Synchronous Connected Systems.
Speaker: David Ayman Shamma, Yahoo! Research
Abstract:
The things we do together spawn conversations; gathering with our friends and families to watch programs, concerts, and events, we share the experience through backchannel conversations, social asides and mutual displays of agreement and disagreement. How do these sharing of experiences in turn shape how we understand the actual event? This talk presents real-world applications designed to facilitate synchronous conversations while sharing media. First, I will examine how people use status updates, such as on Twitter, while they watch live events on TV. By accounting for temporal and conversational features, one can use tweets to segment a long political debate into logical questions. I will also describe new methods for retrieving conversationally salient, not document salient, terms. Second, I will present Zync, a system for synchronized video sharing over instant messaging; in effect this is conversational video on demand. From observing how a YouTube video is shared within a conversation, we develop methods for media segmentation and summarization. Finally, I will show how using implicit conversational data can outperform explicit annotations in automated classification tasks for online videos. Throughout the talk, I will discuss how these examples extend online infrastructures to build highly connected experiences.
Talked about Zync and how it is mostly used between people who are very close = best friends, spouses, siblings. They can watch the video at the same time, pause it, etc. and write comments. They can share control of the video. Social conversations happen around video.
Video creation as a way to have a multi-layered dialogue. Social media = social creation.
10-22-10
Sarah to William:
I've also been thinking about the center and doing some research on funding and I thought it might make sense to write up a proposal for funding for a series of meetings culminating in a conference and center creation. That way we can bring in hte most innovative thinkers and practitioners from around the country (or world) for a series of meetings. Does that make sense? I've just seen that foundations do give funds for planning. And given that you have so many people that you want to work with who are outside MIT, this might be the way to do it. If you agree, then we would get together a list of people that we want to invite in (get their in) and a list of meeting topics (maybe 1 a month or if that seems like too many, 2 a semester)? What do you think?
William to Sarah:
Sounds good!! We'll have to build a context wnf an audience, and depending on funding levels, can pull some leading thinkers on doc to MIT for discussion as well. It will establish is as a discourse leader. ...Apparently, there are some Chinese folks also making these sorts of docs...just learned that in Shanghai.
Mtg with William and Susan: 1-24-11 Heritage/direct legacy - visible evidence (scholars) - (host them) Technology - collaborative documentary - editing, version tracking, authorship community/application - let people work on it
fulfilment of claims of that movement hyperportability, hypermobility,
how do we hand over the film to other people...
If we could do a retrospective of these filmmakers, speaking events, once a month, mini-conference about the future....
helps young people to get them engaged - tools to make films, conversation
access to filmmaking - social justice in the sense of process - training, in dialogue, creating a community of novices and experts who work together.
community of practice - theory to ground it in
curation,
collaborative, individual training, and the community
ceasar mcdowell, forward looking, emerging area and we are going to push that people (bottom) up project
Ed Pincus - Black Nachas - taught with ricky leacock - guide to independent filmmaking - social justice films...
speaker series -heritage - harvard - MIT - new filmmaker
toolkit - of existing resources
online version - agregate links - harvest - let the community build this thing new version of pincus guide - provide tools and community reviews
WGBH - retrospective of some of the films
open courseware - workshops for people who can’t make it to Sundance
Berkman - IP Ethan Z - does the internet promote cross cultural understanding? Michael Renov - visible evidence, ghettos in LA and Beverly Hills working together, cultural understanding Sasha Costanza-Cooke’s
aggregate tools with discussion boards - community of interest
went to this talk today at CSAIL:
Staying together: Understanding People and Media in Synchronous Connected Systems.
Speaker: David Ayman Shamma, Yahoo! ResearchAbstract:
The things we do together spawn conversations; gathering with our friends and families to watch programs, concerts, and events, we share the experience through backchannel conversations, social asides and mutual displays of agreement and disagreement. How do these sharing of experiences in turn shape how we understand the actual event? This talk presents real-world applications designed to facilitate synchronous conversations while sharing media. First, I will examine how people use status updates, such as on Twitter, while they watch live events on TV. By accounting for temporal and conversational features, one can use tweets to segment a long political debate into logical questions. I will also describe new methods for retrieving conversationally salient, not document salient, terms. Second, I will present Zync, a system for synchronized video sharing over instant messaging; in effect this is conversational video on demand. From observing how a YouTube video is shared within a conversation, we develop methods for media segmentation and summarization. Finally, I will show how using implicit conversational data can outperform explicit annotations in automated classification tasks for online videos. Throughout the talk, I will discuss how these examples extend online infrastructures to build highly connected experiences.
Talked about Zync and how it is mostly used between people who are very close = best friends, spouses, siblings. They can watch the video at the same time, pause it, etc. and write comments. They can share control of the video. Social conversations happen around video.
Video creation as a way to have a multi-layered dialogue. Social media = social creation.
10-22-10
Sarah to William:
I've also been thinking about the center and doing some research on funding and I thought it might make sense to write up a proposal for funding for a series of meetings culminating in a conference and center creation. That way we can bring in hte most innovative thinkers and practitioners from around the country (or world) for a series of meetings. Does that make sense? I've just seen that foundations do give funds for planning. And given that you have so many people that you want to work with who are outside MIT, this might be the way to do it. If you agree, then we would get together a list of people that we want to invite in (get their in) and a list of meeting topics (maybe 1 a month or if that seems like too many, 2 a semester)? What do you think?
William to Sarah:
Sounds good!! We'll have to build a context wnf an audience, and depending on funding levels, can pull some leading thinkers on doc to MIT for discussion as well. It will establish is as a discourse leader. ...Apparently, there are some Chinese folks also making these sorts of docs...just learned that in Shanghai.
Mtg with William and Susan: 1-24-11
Heritage/direct legacy - visible evidence (scholars) - (host them)
Technology - collaborative documentary - editing, version tracking, authorship
community/application - let people work on it
fulfilment of claims of that movement
hyperportability, hypermobility,
how do we hand over the film to other people...
If we could do a retrospective of these filmmakers, speaking events, once a month, mini-conference about the future....
helps young people to get them engaged - tools to make films, conversation
access to filmmaking - social justice in the sense of process - training, in dialogue, creating a community of novices and experts who work together.
community of practice - theory to ground it in
curation,
collaborative, individual training, and the community
ceasar mcdowell,
forward looking, emerging area and we are going to push that
people (bottom) up project
Ed Pincus - Black Nachas - taught with ricky leacock - guide to independent filmmaking - social justice films...
speaker series -heritage - harvard - MIT - new filmmaker
toolkit - of existing resources
online version - agregate links - harvest - let the community build this thing
new version of pincus guide - provide tools and community reviews
WGBH - retrospective of some of the films
open courseware - workshops for people who can’t make it to Sundance
Berkman - IP
Ethan Z - does the internet promote cross cultural understanding?
Michael Renov - visible evidence, ghettos in LA and Beverly Hills working together, cultural understanding
Sasha Costanza-Cooke’s
aggregate tools with discussion boards - community of interest