Thursday, 17 March 2011
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
What is a Line? - Chosen Brief
We were given a brief which we had to fill in ourselves, using a concept we devised beforehand. I chose to focus on the 'six degrees of separation' theory, that everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. Once we filled the sheet in, we were required to re-write someone elses brief in our own words. We then created a 5 week action plan to structure our time efficiently.
Communication is a Virus - Chosen quotes
Following the crit, we decided to choose 20 quotes which we believe we could explore in depth and use for our final 'campaign'. The shorter the quote, the more impact it tended to have.
1) Many years later as he faced the firing squad.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
2) There was no possibility of walking.
Jane Eyre
3) You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
Dr Seuss
4) Oh frabjous day! Caloo! Callay!
Jabberwocky
5) People never notice anything.
The Catcher in The Rye
6) The reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.
2001: A Space Odessey
7) Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
To Kill a Mockingbird
8) Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts.
Watchmen
9) To sleep, perchance to dream.
Hamlet
10) Shall i compare thee to a summers day.
Romeo & Juliet
11) They had been slaves, and now they where free.
Animal Farm
12) Noise is relative to the silence preceding it.
V for Vendetta
13) He opened the bumflap on his tunnelling trousers.
Artemis Fowl
14) All the ghosts watched fearful and silent.
The Amber Spyglass
15) And there was very little everything and more nothing than anyone could imagine.
Wings
16) It was the best of times and it was the worst of times.
A Tale of Two Cities
17) Hot water, good dentistry and shoft lavatory paper.
The Light Fantastic
18) Man will not associate with me.
Frankinstein
19) Behold the greatest coverup in human history.
Da Vinci Code
20) 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy.
Macbeth
What is a Line? - Chosen Concept
Six Degrees of Separation
This refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer.
Social networking
Twitter
According to Sysomos, a social media analytics company, the average distance/steps between two Twitter users is 4.67. 50% of users are 4 steps away from each other whilst almost all are 5.
Facebook
A Facebook platform application named "Six Degrees" was developed by Karl Bunyan, which calculates the degrees of separation between different people. It had over 5.8 million users, as seen from the group's page. The average separation for all users of the application is 5.73 degrees, whereas the maximum degree of separation is 12. The application has a "Search for Connections" window to input any name of a Facebook user, to which it then shows the chain of connections. (This will be useful for my own research)
Wikipedia
Stephen Dolan, a student at Trinity College Dublin, applied graph theory to work out the "closeness" of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article, to find the "centre" of Wikipedia. Apart from dates (2007 being 3.45 clicks to 2,111,479 other articles), the "centre" is "United Kingdom", at an average of 3.67 clicks to anywhere else.
Maths
Watts and Strogatz showed that: Average Path Length = (ln N / ln K) where N = total nodes and K = acquaintances per node. Thus if N = 300,000,000 (90% US pop.) and K = 30 then Degrees of Separation = 19.5 / 3.4 = 5.7 and if N = 6,000,000,000 (90% World pop.) and K = 30 then Degrees of Separation = 22.5 / 3.4 = 6.6. (Assume 10% of population is too young to participate.)
This refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer.
Social networking
According to Sysomos, a social media analytics company, the average distance/steps between two Twitter users is 4.67. 50% of users are 4 steps away from each other whilst almost all are 5.
A Facebook platform application named "Six Degrees" was developed by Karl Bunyan, which calculates the degrees of separation between different people. It had over 5.8 million users, as seen from the group's page. The average separation for all users of the application is 5.73 degrees, whereas the maximum degree of separation is 12. The application has a "Search for Connections" window to input any name of a Facebook user, to which it then shows the chain of connections. (This will be useful for my own research)
Wikipedia
Stephen Dolan, a student at Trinity College Dublin, applied graph theory to work out the "closeness" of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article, to find the "centre" of Wikipedia. Apart from dates (2007 being 3.45 clicks to 2,111,479 other articles), the "centre" is "United Kingdom", at an average of 3.67 clicks to anywhere else.
Maths
Watts and Strogatz showed that: Average Path Length = (ln N / ln K) where N = total nodes and K = acquaintances per node. Thus if N = 300,000,000 (90% US pop.) and K = 30 then Degrees of Separation = 19.5 / 3.4 = 5.7 and if N = 6,000,000,000 (90% World pop.) and K = 30 then Degrees of Separation = 22.5 / 3.4 = 6.6. (Assume 10% of population is too young to participate.)
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