Betsi Grabe, a professor in Telecom at Indiana University, gave a talk Friday assessing the degree of visual bias in network news coverage of U.S. presidential candidates from 1992-2004. Her study, part of a larger series of studies examining the so-called “liberal bias” in the media, focused exclusively on visual images rather than other forms [...]
So sayeth the Colbert
Thursday’s The Colbert Report began with a congratulatory anniversary card containing a couple small bills. At the close of the segment, Stephen Colbert mentioned that the dollars had some writing on it: “The Colbert Show. Mon - Thurs 11:30p. Comedy Central.”
Unlike his Wikiality stunt a few months back — in which he instructed listeners to [...]
I tire of Pat Forde
Dear Pat Forde,
And WHY is Indiana included in your article on elite program cheating?
Let me get this straight. You write about an layman’s correlation between winning championships and cheating/breaking NCAA rules (which, for the record, may not even be the same thing). You point the finger at some elite programs as a result. In the [...]
Madness!
Although this post may jinx it, it looks like Eric Gordon is coming to Indiana. The prized recruit re-thought his verbal commitment to Illinois after Kelvin Sampson was hired, and Sampson — despite being restricted from using the phone — has been extremely aggressive with local and big name recruits. Likely coming with Gordon will [...]
At their convenience (store)
I’m dying to ask my Chicago White Sox insider connections how this came to be. It looks like it was the brainchild of the Seven-11 convenience store chain to sponsor the start time of baseball night games — the first pitch will be thrown out at 7:11p — but I’m curious to know what the [...]
Complexity’s Impact on Design of Online Communities
Complexity to this point has dealt with understanding its defining characteristics and identifying examples in technology and nature. The next step in the development of the field is to find useful if not practical application of this knowledge in the form of intentional design and construction of systems. Architects may not be able to control [...]
What Complexity Is
Not everything that exhibits evidence of the primitive components of complexity is itself complex. Emergent properties may be present in few-bodied systems, and many-bodied systems may lack a characteristic adaptability. In our definition of complexity (well, my definition, by way of the IU School of Informatics), three things are required: emergent behavior, many component parts, [...]