Ethos and Tech: The Evolving Paradigm of Collective Intelligence

Student: Katie Cullen
Course: C&I 209: Digital Media and Literacy
Instructor: Erica Halverson & TJ Kalaitzidis
Medium: Infographic
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Description: In our visualization, we chose to represent the changes from the classic encyclopedia of Encyclopedia Britannica to our current user-operated system of Wikipedia. We chose to use the data of how many articles were available over the years in the classic print version of the encyclopedia, the online software that Encyclopedia Britannica came out with in 2002, and Wikipedia today to demonstrate how the “new ethos” and “new technical” ideas shape the availability of knowledge.

New Ethos

Students: Rachel Adam and Molly Hanson
Course: Curriculum and Instruction 209
Instructor: Erica Halverson & TJ Kalaitzidis
Medium: Infographic
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Description: Our final product shows how the collaborative and participatory qualities of “new ethos” combined with fluid rules and norms and distributed systems combine and overlap in many applications and web uses of the modern day world. Our visualization portrays this overlap with the branches and leaves located in between the main sections, and the reappearance of some application logos multiple times in various branch locations of “New Ethos”. Now complete, it is interesting to reflect upon the co-evolution of the design and the language we chose to use - a process in itself a representation of the “new ethos” of “new literacy”.