Digitalisation with a human touch Articles

Due to my studies, I do n0t get to blog that often at the moment, but I do not want to withhold this from you: I recently went to a concert by the punk band Milloy and took lots of pictures.

Nice idea: Today, the Stylespion calls on you to take part in the “A ♥ for blogs” campaign and to introduce German blogs to encourage networking in the community. The procedure: Today, April 21, 2009, the entire (well, maybe just part of the) German blogosphere is publishing a post with the same title) and doing nothing more than pointing to other blogs worth reading. Over at the Blogpiloten, I have already submitted a few suggestions that should appear during the course of the day, but there is of course more to say. So here we go.

Yes, yes, the good old media convergence. What actually only refers to media would have to be defined much more broadly and also extended to computers (computer convergence? Well, I do not know). While certain operating systems are ostentatiously flaunting their 64 bits, the fan community unabashedly indulges its love of 8 bits. And so you can find a whole range of cool projects on the internet that revive the sounds of the C64 and Atari. You can find a small selection after the jump.

Dieco Stocco experiments with sounds, using all kinds of unusual sound sources. Worth listening to!

Malcolm McLaren, the well-known artist and music manager, has put together a new video installation called “Shallow 1-21”.

Poladroid simulates the development of analog polaroids up to the smallest GUI detail. Does this work?

It is finally here: Steffen Büffel has put the results of last year's newspaper study online, which I was allowed to work on. The values are based on a full coverage of German newspapers and should therefore be unrivaled in this country.

Pacman as a text adventure? An exciting experiment by N. Landsteiner.

It is always amazing to see what interesting things you can discover in the history of photography. My latest discovery: Spirit Photography. This is a strange practice that wanted to make ghosts visible on film.

Recently, I have been dealing with the question of whether a film is capable of conveying scientific knowledge. By this, I do not mean the more or less reputable science programs on television, which tend to contribute to the popularization of scientific knowledge. Nor do I mean film as the object of scientific study in film studies. Rather, I am concerned with the question of whether film can adequately convey a scientific, controversial subject matter. The starting point for this was a study that has not yet been published and that was conducted in the Department of Education at the University of Trier: a comparison of the teaching methods of film and text in terms of their effectiveness in learning when dealing with scientific knowledge.