#Nidhogg reddit series
#Nidhogg reddit tv

My undergraduate offered a course in that, which I presumed would be a precursor to UI/UX design, user interface and user experience. Ken: It's fascinating to hear, you mentioned HCI. It's a sort of crossover with more traditional information studies with computer science.

#Nidhogg reddit series

Like, how is all of that impacting people and how are people being impacted by it? Like a computer at its core, if you get down to the binary is just a series of ones and zeros that correlate with a cache of information that the string of binary means this command.Д«rianna: And so, you abstract that to like people using social media platforms and sharing information on there and using these technologies to share information and you get information science, which my brand of information science can also be referred to as human centered computing or human computer interaction. You have information sciences focusing on online communities, the technology that they interact with, how is the data that those communities generate impacting other spaces, how are the designs of those spaces, which are just very elaborate data structures and information architecture glued together with ones and zeros to make stuff happen. And there is no other overly ambitious attempt to structure and organize information than the internet itself. So what is information science when it is its own discipline?Д«rianna: Information science at its core is the study of the structuring, organization and categorization of information, that also includes data and knowledge. Your PhD is lacking the library component.

I briefly pursued a master's of MLIS, a master's of library and information science. I'm familiar with information science as an academic field in the context of library science. As I said, you are a PhD candidate of information science. I have spent the week reading your work, your tweets, your research papers, your website, and it's just so astonishing how much more there is a fan fiction than what I realize before I started looking into this world. Ken: Thank you so much for coming on the show. So please join me in welcoming PhD candidate of information science at University of Colorado, Boulder, Brianna Dym. I thought it'd be a great idea to examine that phenomenon a little bit more closely today on today's Polygamer podcast. Ken: These are all forms of fan creations or fan works, and one subset of fan works is fan fiction, people who take the universes that these other companies, media brands or independent creators have provided to us and choose to extend it, expand it, explore it, and share those creations with other people. They create podcasts, YouTube videos, online essays, reviews, et cetera. Some people additionally create that media. They listen to podcasts, they read articles, magazines, et cetera.

For some people, they consume the media, they turn it on, they enjoy it, they turn it off and thus ends the relationship. Our relationship with this media manifests in a variety of ways.

#Nidhogg reddit tv

Odds are you also enjoy TV shows, movies, comic books, graphic novels, novels, and the like. You're listening to this podcast because you enjoy video games. Ken Gagne: Hello, and welcome to the Polygamer podcast episode number 115 for Wednesday, July 21st, 2021. Join us as we expand the boundaries of the gaming community.

Voiceover: Welcome to the Polygamer podcast, where gaming is for everyone.

Jean Hardy of Michigan State University.

Participate in Brianna's research! Fandom & Activism Interview Sign-Up.

In this podcast, Brianna and I discuss what makes for good source material, and why there's more fanfic of Dragon Age and Mass Effect than of Call of Duty or Super Meat Boy whether fandom is necessarily participatory why Nintendo should be more supportive of derivative works how fanworks can develop skills in groups historically excluded from STEM fields and how communities migrate from platform to platform, and why LiveJournal and Tumblr may serve their needs better than a CMS like WordPress. LGBTQIA+ authors engage in this creative component of fandom to produce original stories and games that better represent marginalized groups. Brianna's field of study is fanworks: the original creations, derivations, and reimaginings of existing brands and media, from movies to video games. Brianna DymВ is a Ph.D student in the University of Colorado Boulder's information science department under Dr.