Emotionally expressive music and dance occur together across the world. This may be because features shared across the senses are represented the same way even in different sensory brain areas, putting music and movement in directly comparable terms. These shared representations may arise from a general need to identify environmentally relevant combinations of sensory features, particularly those that communicate emotion. To test the hypothesis that visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure, we created music and animation stimuli with crossmodally matched features expressing a range of emotions. Participants confirmed that each emotion corresponded to a set of features shared across music and movement. A subset of participants viewed both music and animation during brain scanning, revealing that representations in auditory and visual brain areas were similar to one another. This shared representation captured not only simple stimulus features but also combinations of features associated with emotion judgments. The posterior superior temporal cortex represented both music and movement using this same structure, suggesting supramodal abstraction of sensory content. Further exploratory analysis revealed that early visual cortex used this shared representational structure even when stimuli were presented auditorily. We propose that crossmodally shared representations support mutually reinforcing dynamics across auditory and visual brain areas, facilitating crossmodal comparison. These shared representations may help explain why emotions are so readily perceived and why some dynamic emotional expressions can generalize across cultural contexts.

This portends some interesting results with relation to mnemonics and particularly songlines and indigenous peoples’ practices which integrate song, movement, and emotion.

Preprint:

Across the world, people express emotion through music and dance. But why do music and dance go together?

We tested a deceptively simple hypothesis: Music and movement are represented the same way in the brain.

— Beau Sievers (@beausievers) October 12, 2021

ᔥ Beau Sievers in “New work published today in Current Biology Visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure that supports emotion perception With @ThaliaWheatley @k_v_n_l @parkinsoncm @sergeyfogelson (thread after coffee!) / Twitter (10/12/2021 09:26:10)

Bookmarked Gardens and Streams II: Notes and Thoughts by Tracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)

So glad I could make it to this IndieWeb popup! Interesting to hear other viewpoints and talk things through.

Bookmarked Getting More Women Involved in the IndieWeb by Tracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)

I was happy to see another woman attending this IndieWeb popup event, but would like to figure out how to bring more women into the IndieWeb sphere.

Turn a Google Sheets spreadsheet into a blog page and RSS feed

This reminds me of the sort of thing that @JohnStewartPhD or someone from the #DoOO space might do: Turn a Google Sheet into a website.

ᔥ Kevin Marks in #indieweb 2021-09-06 (09/06/2021 16:14:19)

Bookmarked Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 by Matthew Daniel Eddy (University of Chicago Press)

I can’t wait to read Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (University of Chicago Press, 2022)!

I see some bits on annotation hiding in here that may be of interest to Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia.

Bookmarked Tending the Digital Commons by Alan Jacobs (The Hedgehog Review | Spring 2018: The Human and the Digital)

The complexities of social media ought to prompt deep reflection on what we all owe to the future, and how we might discharge this debt.

This fantastic essay touches on so many things related to IndieWeb and A Domain of One’s Own. We often talk about the “why” of these movements, but Alan Jacobs provides some underlying ethics as well.

For those who don’t have a subscription, Alan has kindly and pleasantly provided a samizdat version on his site in .pdf format.

Bookmarked Integrating Webmentions Into NextJS Blog by Julia Tan (Integrating Webmentions Into NextJS Blog)

I've been meaning to check out webmentions for a while now, as I had been debating between installing some kind of comments package for this blog or just using social to interact with visitors and readers.

Science fiction is often described, and even defined, as extrapolative. The science fiction writer is supposed to take a trend or phenomenon of the here-and-now, purify and intensify it for dramatic effect, and extend it into the future. “If this goes on, this is what will happen.” A prediction is made. Method and results much resemble those of a scientist who feeds large doses of a purified and concentrated food additive to mice, in order to predict what may happen to people who eat it in small quantities for a long time. The outcome seems almost inevitably to be cancer. So does the outcome of extrapolation. Strictly extrapolative works of science fiction generally arrive about where the Club of Rome arrives: somewhere between the gradual extinction of human liberty and the total extinction of terrestrial life.

Suggested Annotated Reading from the I Annotate 2021 Keynote: Courtney McClellan

Flancian’s notes from IAnno21.

Write and cite, research and re-search, and never get lost in Databyss. Welcome to your new word processor.

Ran across this in the closing party session of I Annotate 2021.

Make music using the free-to-use audio and video materials from the Library of Congress This is a project by Brian Foo as part of the 2020 Innovator in Residence Program at the Library of Congress.

Some interesting resources for music, audio, and video from the Library of Congress mentioned early this morning at IAnno21.

Collaborative annotation tools expand the concept of social bookmarking by allowing users not only to share bookmarks but also to digitally annotate w

Interesting looking article that was referenced at I Annotate 2021 today.

Amazing conversations about media

Mentioned by Lysandra Cook at I Annotate 2021.

Looks like a fun tool to try out.

Bookmarked #ianno19 Keynote: The Simple Secret of the Note in Us All by Gardner Campbell by Hypothes.is (YouTube)

Gardner Campbell of Virginia Commonwealth University keynotes the seventh annual I Annotate gathering in Washington DC, focused on the theme Annotation Unleashed: The Web at 30. Note well. Take note. Make a note. Leave a mark. Annotation, learning, teaching, and human flourishing are all deeply intertwingled. I’ll explore some of these connections, with illustrations from my use of annotation in the classroom as well as in my work with Doug Engelbart’s 1962 research report and manifesto, Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Along the way, I’ll consider the central question Shoshana Zuboff poses in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “Can the digital future be our home?” Or will it be a place of exile? View Gardner's slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1C63... Explore #ianno19: https://iannotate.org/2019/

Thank you to Gardner himself for working to create this final edited version of his presentation!

Referenced by Paul Schacht (English/Digital Learning, SUNY Geneseo) in the I Annotate 2021 Panel: Digital Literacies panel

We invite you use this collaborative bibliography on annotation, curated by members of AnnotatED, the community for annotation in education that includes educators, researchers, and technologists from organizations that engage deeply with collaborative annotation as a transformative practice in teaching and learning.

You can also visit a filtered view of the full bibliography that includes only scholarship specifically related to Hypothesis and the full bibliography directly in Zotero. Contact us to make suggestions or join as a contributor.

This is a public bibliography collecting the works published on the topic of "Digital Social Reading".

It is a work-in-progress maintained by Federico Pianzola with contributions by Simone Rebora, Peter Boot, and Berenike Herrmann.

Around half of the records have complete abstracts or descriptions in metadata and are tagged according to the categories described in the article Rebora et al. (2020), "Digital Humanities and Digital Social Reading."

Some records may be incomplete.

If you would like to contribute to the library adding new records or tagging existing ones, please contact federico.pianzola@unimib.it

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I’ve been following this bibliography on Zotero for a while. It’s definitely some good stuff.

Slides from Panel: Digital Literacies

How do the collaborative and multimodal qualities of social annotation encourage digital literacies? Join an expert panel of educators and researchers as they share their projects and perspectives, as well as discuss how social annotation exemplifies creative and interactive digital literacies. The panel will be moderated by Mary Klann (History, UC San Diego/San Diego Miramar College) and features speakers Jenae Cohn (Academic Technology, CSU Sacramento), Cherise McBride (Education, UC Berkeley), and Paul Schacht (English/Digital Learning, SUNY Geneseo).

Bookmarked Jenea Cohn's Writing by Jenea Cohn (Jenae Cohn)

Writing I explore emergent questions about how technology impacts the ways that we read, write, and communicate, particularly in higher education. How do we read deeply in digital spaces? Reading on a screen is a different experience than reading off of paper. But is it necessarily worse, more distr...

Her book Skim, Dive, Surface:Teaching Digital Reading looks particularly interesting.

Follow us for news about http://labs.loc.gov and @LibraryCongress Digital Strategy.

Twitter account for the Digital Strategy group of the Library of Congress.

A collection of license plates curated by Katherine Frazer.

Personalized license plates could be thought of as a way to annotate one’s car.

The new pack of 50 stickers is based on a series of ceramic sculptures Owens made based on the beloved facial icons.

Custom emoji for annotating. Mentioned in a talk this morning at I Annotate 2021.

A coalition of content creators, technology platforms, service providers and stakeholder groups in education coming together to achieve the first steps for cross-platform social learning.

Saw the announcement for this at IAnnotate21. Hypothes.is is participating.

The list of participants could definitely use some more diversity.

The eighth annual conference dedicated to open annotation practices and technologies: 21–25 Jun 2021 online.

Anyone gotten the Airmeet link yet? I’m not seeing anything in my inbox since the email about the program last week….

Allows for text selections to be copied (refactored) into new notes and notes to be split into other notes. - lynchjames/note-refactor-obsidian

A system to organise projects.

Johnny Decimal seems to be an interesting organizational structure for putting things into. Not sure if it’s something I’m going to use any time soon, but intriguing.

A next-generation IRC network for FOSS projects collaboration!

The old Freenode staff have left in a dispute with Andrew Lee, and this is their new platform.

Bookmarked Webmention and Twitter by Manton Reece (manton.org)

After the Webmention session last weekend, I was inspired to revisit a quirk of Micro.blog’s Webmention implementation. Bridgy is an IndieWeb-friendly service commonly used to forward tweet replies via Webmention. If you were using Bridgy to connect your blog to Twitter, Micro.blog had been essent...

Bookmarked Whiki by Whitney Trettien (whitneyannetrettien.com)

This is an online commonplace book for Whitney Trettien. You're welcome to use these notes and reading lists to guide you in your own studies.

This has to be one of the baddest-ass things I’ve seen in months. I wish more people had public-facing commonplace books like this!

Bonus points that Whitney calls it a Whiki!

Efforts to move higher education instruction online en masse highlight the necessity of affective labor—work that a person does to suppress their feelings so as to create a desired feeling in others (in this case, a sense of calm)—as well as the toll it can take.

Suggested reading by the OERxDomains session: Taking Care by Lee Skallerup Bessette and Susannah McGowan

The publication of scientific results is an essential task of scientists. The peer review of a publication by other scientists ensures its quality. Their publication is proof of their achievements. In addition, it provides the basis for discussions within a scientific community and serves as a basis for further findings. It is therefore desirable for the publication to be dissiminated and received as widely as possible.

ᔥ Katharina Schulz in domains21 (04/19/2021 18:33:31)

This article is an elaboration on the statements about the WWW, web design and personal websites I made in my recent talks and articles, as well as those included in the volume. As the editor (and probably the readers as well) noticed, as soon as I look for counter examples to new media products made following the cruel and hypocritical UX paradigm, I come up with a website – or more precisely, with a website of a particular genre – “the 90s GeoCities”.

This article was mentioned by Jim Groom several times at Domains21

Idee und Konzept erklärt für deutschsprachige Hochschulen

ᔥ Katharina Schulz in domains21 (04/19/2021 18:33:31)

OERcamps – Opening up conferencing! Mainstreaming open education through barcamps

ᔥ friedelitis in domains21 (04/19/2021 18:33:31)

Yunaru.com source code. Follow anyone. Blog anything. - yunaru-org/yunaru

Collect and mark up digital images and texts, link them together, annotate them, invite friends to collaborate, publish with one click.

This looks like a cool little project. I wonder how well this might make for a platform for a Domain of One’s Own/IndieWeb for Education?

I came across it via

I’m excited to share a digital edition of Susanna Collet’s 17th-century commonplace book, held at @morganlibrary. @zoe_braccia & I made it using @digitalmappa. It features a full transcription/facsimile & a searchable library of Collet’s source texts. pic.twitter.com/fyrbwS9kk1

— whitney trettien (@whitneytrettien) April 7, 2021

which makes it sound like an off-label use case for their application. But given the functionality, it looks like it would fun/useful for those in the digital humanities space and could be a cool tool in one’s DoOO workshop.

Does anyone else have experience with it?

ᔥ whitney trettien on Twitter: “I’m excited to share a digital edition of Susanna Collet’s 17th-century commonplace book, held at @morganlibrary. @zoe_braccia & I made it using @digitalmappa. It features a full transcription/facsimile & a searchable library of Collet’s source texts. (04/09/2021 10:49:31)