Memo43+--+New+Skeleton+and+Notes

Thomas Solley STSH 4980-01 Senior Thesis Costelloe-Kuehn 11/21/2014 11/22/2014

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__ Memo 43 -- New Skeleton and Notes __ And so it begins.... working-from the notes from < https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SxMlA3dvFroDVkhX-Zaytpl3UYmgEQjEWU4rP5fD_Yg/edit>, we shall begin...

rather than putting my work here, I shall begin to draft an actual MSWord document (might as well). While I had wanted to draft my Thesis in Latex, I don't think that is going to be very feasible... As I don't know enough of the editing and such for a Thesis (while we did try to get formatting for that back in the day, earlier this semester, we were not very successful...)... -->> //__**I'll probably put some MSWord stuff in here for the sake of Content, but I'll be looking to put it into LaTeX PDF eventually, just for the sake of formatting...**__// See  for the desired style, and  for what I've actually put-into Latex so far... (which is not much, and I may not even mess with Latex for thsi RRD)

[Oh and I should be adding-to a list of my Interview Questions as I go, I don't know if I have a full list pf those somewhere?][We do actually, see Memo 6]

Of course, we shall begin with the framework we developed from the Notes, but we also need a better Skeleton, akin to the Professor's suggested outcome (e.g. the Thesis he sent to us all). I'll put a rough skeleton of that here; [My own emphasis added in **bold**]

1.2 The Fieldwork. 9 1.3 The Analysis. 14 1.4 The Text 16 2.2 Informatics and the Environment 19 2.3 Transmission and Context in Environmental Communication. 21 2.4 Public Perceptions and Literacies of Environmental Problems. 23 2.5 From Literacies to Subjectivities: EMSs and the Shaping of Environmental Subjects 27 2.6 EMSs as Subject-, Community- and Object-Shaping Prostheses. 29 2.7 Environmental Risk Communication and the Politics of Uncertainty. 31 2.8 Recent Shifts in the Mass Media and Effects on Science and Environment Reporting 33 2.9 New Media: Opportunities and Limitations. 36 2.10 Advocacy and Objectivity at the EPA .. 38 2.11 Media Imaginaries from Tactical Media. 40 2.12 Design Logics and Beautiful Evidence. 41 3.3 Informating Ecology/Situating the Atlas in Shifts in the Labor of Ecology. 50 3.3.1 First Phase of Ecological Fieldwork: Databasing Measurements and On the Ground Observations. 51 3.3.2 Second Phase: Remote-Sensing and Modeling. 54 3.3.3 Stage Three: New Modes of Fieldwork. The Networking and Informating of Ecology in the Atlas. 55 3.4 The Atlas as/in Context 58 3.4.1 The Atlas as Context: Design Logics. 58 3.4.2 The Atlas in Context: Substantive Logics. 74 3.5 Conclusion: Cultural Critique in the Atlas. 83 3.5.1 Atlas Makers as Experimenters and Context Producers. 83 3.5.2 Literacies and Sensibilities. 84 4.2 CMAQ as/in Context 92 4.3 Linking Models, Climate Change, Ozone Exposure. 106 4.4 Peer Review and Processes: Modeling Future Epistemologies. 112 4.5 Conclusion: Modeling Future Epistemologies. 118 5.2 Mediating Perception and Knowledge. 123 5.3 Heterogeneity Among EMS Producers and Publics. 125 5.4 Making Diversity Productive by Practicing Science Communication as Context Production 127 5.5 Recognizing Political Possibilities Beyond Federal Regulations: Working Scales, Swerving Subjectivities and Creating Collectivities. 133 6.2.1 Improve Prosthetics for Mediating Understanding of the Environment 150 6.2.2 Foster Greater Understanding of Heterogeneity. 151 6.2.3 Make Differences within Communities of Practice Productive by Fostering Science Communication as Context Production. 152 6.2.4 Broaden Notions about Where Political Action Happens. 153 6.2.5 Look Beyond Technical Fixes. 155 6.2.6 Reconceptualize (Environmental) Communication and Develop Provocative EMSs 156 6.3 Re-Visiting The Stakes and Starting New Conversations. 159 8... Appendix 1: Timeline. 195 9. Appendix 2: Methodological Reflections and Description of Interviews and Fieldwork  216
 * CONTENTS . iii **
 * LIST OF TABLES . vi **
 * LIST OF FIGURES . vii **
 * ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . viii **
 * ABSTRACT . ix **
 * 1... Introduction . 1 **
 * 1.1 Summary of the Project 1 **
 * 2... Environmental Media Systems in/as Forceful Contexts . 19 **
 * 2.1 Introduction . 19 **
 * 3... Synthesizing Collaborative Cartographies: Articulating Ecological Literacy, Subjectivity and Collectivity with the National Atlas for Sustainability . 44 **
 * 3.1 Introduction . 44 **
 * 3.2 Overview of the Atlas . 46 **
 * 4... Assembling a Numerical Laboratory: The Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System as a Context of Collaborative Development and Evaluation . 88 **
 * 4.1 Introduction . 88 **
 * 5... Concluding Contributions . 123 **
 * 5.1 Overview of the Arguments . 123 **
 * 5.6 Returning to the Research Questions . 137 **
 * 5.6.1 Context: The Underlying Matrix . 137 **
 * 5.6.2 Substantive Logics, Design Logics and Imaginaries . 143 **
 * 5.6.3 Cultural Critique . 147 **
 * 6... Epilogue . 149 **
 * 6.1 Overview .. 149 **
 * 6.2 Prescriptions . 150 **
 * 7... Bibliography . 169 **

Not so certain I will follow the same procedure (my own Chapter Summaries is closer to the steps shown in my Memo 42, but even that is less-complete than the Notes from today). -->> And as the Notes GD shows, I chose something simpler... For now. I'll probably end-up parsing stuff in idnividually, but for now I feel I've got something adequate. -->> Still worried about formatting of course, since it is not nearly as good as I would like...

We now have what I call the "blearghset," e.g. a set of placeholder things, in essence. Also provided some mild comedic relief. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">, no actual "content is in here yet. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">, preliminary .tex document.

, still pre-sources and pre-new-literatures. E.g. still without citations, and without the Body Content or Supporting Research.

<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Supporting documents I need; <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">- "the digital age" (what is it?) <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">- "the Internet of All Things" (what is it?) <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">- origin of the Slow Food movement (historical) <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">- has the ST hid for the last 7 years? - citations of the failure of finding STS/academic works into social netowrks, facebook, and smartphones. - Seattle Times and UWash article. - citation of lack of social network complaints. - Wikipedia page on Smartphones in the U.S. in 2007 - Paper of smartphone versus smart-phone.

.... For the 4th RRD, I don't have time to fillin what I would like... It will have to wait. More important is the generation and creation of CONTENT, e.g. follow Mr. Gaines' advice on the creation of appropriate Discourse Communities... As much as I want to fill in everything I know, I can't, I just can't... I'm already over-time.... Community of H+; - We already have names, the website has even more info on the type of members they have...

Communinty of ST; - we know it is local, the SM-wiki says-so, and the ST webpage reveals no posts (the G+ page does not help with this either) - The Haaretz article -author is Neta Alexander, Jaron Lanier ("Lanier’s book “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto” 2010) ; Vintage paperback, 2011 ) turned him overnight into one of the leading representatives of the Slow Tech movement (though Lanier himself insists that he represents only himself, not any organization or movement )."), Nicholas Carr, Sherry Turkle, [these are the only persons expressly mentioned by name as writers?] -->> "the Slow Technology movement is still less of a movement than a collective gut feeling that something bad is happening in the Western world in the digital age, even if it is still difficult to put one’s finger on the exact implications of the threat" (Haaretz5) -->> "Indeed, the most interesting conversations at Digital Detox proved time and again that Jaron Lanier is right: There is something mysterious and elusive about people which is hard, probably impossible, to translate into a computer code." (Haaretz7)

Overlap; - Both websites claim to be seeking a means of understanding and approaching innovation cautiously

Discordance; - Aside-from the organizational issues of the ST group,