{"id":29,"date":"2019-09-06T21:10:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T04:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/texttechnologies\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2019-11-03T23:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T06:22:44","slug":"task-nine-network-assignment-using-golden-record-curation-quiz-data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/texttechnologies\/task-nine-network-assignment-using-golden-record-curation-quiz-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Task Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I’m totally mesmerized by their beauty, the data-generated visualizations grossly lack important information pertaining to how songs were selected and to what degree, if any, classmates are like minded. Am I connected to Elizabeth and H-M because we curated our lists for similar reasons? Are they fascinated with synesthesia and multiliteracies, just as I am? Does the popularity of each song have significance if the reasoning behind the selections are unknown?<\/p>\n

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In thinking about “null” choices, I was very fortunate to have read Amanda’s Task 8<\/a> before finalizing my own post. She really speaks to the pitfalls of the 27 songs selected for The Golden Record. She discusses bias, in terms of western representation, gender and musical genre. Additionally, she suggests the possibility of cultural appropriation and stereotyping within the original selection. In Amanda’s curated list, what she didn’t pick, had perhaps a greater voice than what she did pick. Sadly, this story was not told through the visualizations.<\/p>\n

In keeping with the spirit of the assignment, I thought I’d create my own data-generated visualization. Below, I’ve created a visual representation of the reasons behind the song choices. In order to accomplish this, I visited each class member’s Task 8 post and compiled a list of the reasons fueling their playlists. Some students selected songs using a single characteristic, and so their names appear only once. Others used multiple characteristics resulting in their names appearing multiple times. (Jennifer McDaniel does not appear on the visualization because I could not access her task.) Although not perfect, as the null choices are still unrepresented, like mindedness seems to have emerged with the additional data grounded in reason.<\/p>\n

Golden Record: Reasons Behind the Playlists<\/a><\/p>\n

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Although I feel that my visual representation better articulates like mindedness than those posted to CLAS, it is not without its own shortcomings. The network I created lacks edges between nodes to clearly identify more complex common connections. For example, Brogan and David both made song selections based on the characteristics: Geography & Culture, Genre\/Sound\/Composer and Time Period\/Historical Significance; however, these connections are not identified through edges within the visualization. As outlined in Network Theory Overview, a multigraph would have been needed to accomplish this. Although my visualization is fairly one-dimensional, I think that the representation of song choice reasoning, more successfully achieves strong correlations based in like mindedness between students.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Systems Innovation (2015). Network Theory Overview<\/i>. [online] <\/span><\/span>Available at: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qFcuovfgPTc [Accessed 1 Nov. 2019].<\/span><\/p>\n

Systems Innovation (2015). Graph Theory Overview<\/i>. [online] <\/span><\/span>Available at: https:\/\/youtu.be\/82zlRaRUsaY [Accessed 1 Nov. 2019].<\/span><\/p>\n

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