Quotes: Conrad, Foucault, Barthes, Simon, Manovich (and Booth’s Poverty Map)
Michael GallagherBooth's London Poverty Map papered onto a wall. I am not going to provide too much description of how these quotes found their way into this post, except to say…
Writing Tools and Transformative Effect: Scrivener
The storyboarding feature on Scrivener is particularly good for this type of writing. My research (which relies heavily on Lave & Wenger's Community of Practice, less so on Kress's Multimodality,…
Learning Design, Offline Structure, Pattern Language, Participatory Design, Doozers
Some visualizations of academic process as designed by my sister, Jennifer Gallagher, Architect. My doctoral work has led me, in these beginning few months, in some directions I had not…
New Media Ontologies and the Technological Unconscious
Washington Square Park in NewYork as a composite of complexity underneath. The image of the park is an abstraction and underneath that abstraction sits the communication flow that we offloaded…
Mapping out multimodal methods for mobile (and alliterating, apparently)
Community and Multimodality: Laying out a Disciplinary Flow I am making my way through the first few rounds of rewrites on my thesis and all is going well. As I…