I’m ruminating here and on my City Brights blog about issues related to 21st Century literacies. I’m putting together videos, widgets, blogs, a website to pull it all together, and eventually a book. I started looking for domain names, and of course everything remotely connected to literacy, new literacies, media literacies, etc., has been taken. So I had to come up with a word. I now own the domains infotention.com, .org, and .net. Googling the word reveals a pretty abstruse looking mathematical statement. If you know of any other prior uses of the word, please leave a comment here. I’m thinking of a combination of ways of thinking and digital tools such as intelligence dashboards, news radars, and info-filters. A combination of attention, information, and intention. Applied infotention. Trained and untrained infotention. And especially mindful infotention. Of course, the first thing a new word deserves is a blog post to establish digital provenance and start the meme rippling. So here it is.
Infotention
- August 20th, 2009
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@ 21:12
Ah, digital provenance.
Infotention: nice, Howard!
@ 08:45
Info-tensions (I am changing one Letter T to S) to try to capture some of the Info-tensions–the dialectical pulls in opposite directions on a continium regarding the information space, economy and use of information. Documenting info-tensions along different continiuums help to reveal societial values underlying wars of words.
Here are a few that come to mind.
(1) Info-tension searchable continiuum might have two end positions
tagged,marked real time conversation
(2) Info-tension location continiuum might have two end positions
geotagging privacy protected
(3) Info-tension different access continiuum dimensions might have two end positions private via password open
(4) Info-tension different access continiuum dimensions might have two end positions binding agent to scourceloose coupling
(5) Info-tension power continiuum might have two end positions
hierarchyflat network
All of these start to bring to light the unsettled territory that we travel.
@ 08:48
Info-tensions (I am changing one Letter T to S) to try to capture some of the Info-tensions–the dialectical pulls in opposite directions on a continium regarding the information space, economy and use of information. Documenting info-tensions along different continiuums help to reveal societial values underlying wars of words.
Here are a few that come to mind.
(1) Info-tension searchable continiuum might have two end positions
tagged,marked………..real time conversation
(2) Info-tension location continiuum might have two end positions
geotagging…………….. privacy protected
(3) Info-tension different access continiuum dimensions might have two end positions private via password………. open
(4) Info-tension different access continiuum dimensions might have two end positions binding agent to scource……..loose coupling
(5) Info-tension power continiuum might have two end positions
hierarchy…………flat network
All of these start to bring to light the unsettled territory that we travel.
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@ 11:02
Thank you, Charles. Interesting thoughts.