Friday, October 27, 2006

聖程 10/28/06

Time: Saturday (10/28) 2PM
Location: UTC 3.102.
Speaker: Sheng-Cheng Huang (School of Information).
Topic: A Semiotic View of Information: Semiotics as a Foundation of LIS Research
in Information Behavior.

Traditional information behavior studies in library and information science (LIS) research have focused on primarily two trends: one is to provide physical access to material objects and the other is to direct users to certain thoughts and ideas. Both focuses are two sides of the same problem that LIS researchers have worked to address: how to provide a better system or service to accommodate people's need for information. Among the domains of users, material objects, and meaningful ideas, applying the concept of information as sign with semiotics not only joins these two trends in the analysis of the pragmatic-syntactic relationship and the pragmatic-semantic relationship, but it also gives an additional focus on the syntactic-semantic relationship. It is this additional focus that helps LIS professionals/researchers understand an individual's states of knowing and ways of obtaining knowledge through physical and mental interactions with informative objects. The author conducts a review of information studies, the epistemological concerns and pragmatic traditions in LIS, and semiotics in an attempt to seek a holistic principle that will incorporate both the traditional trends of LIS research and provide an additional awareness in assisting users to make connections between material objects and ideas in information behavior studies. By applying a semiotic view of information and the concept of information as sign, LIS researchers of information behavior will find semiotics a useful epistemological framework.


台灣聊天室;
1) “王建民現象“.
我們可延伸討論運動產業的國際化與在地化,台灣職棒的生存~Lanew熊封王的職業觀效應,媒體與巨蛋迷思,甚至分享看過的大聯盟與小聯盟經驗。
2) 討論下學期 Schedule.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

凱滿 10/21/06

Time: Saturday 10/21 2-4PM
Location: UTC 3.102
Speaker: 張凱滿 (Kai-man Chang), the expert of director Tsai
Synopsis:
看蔡明亮的電影,我常會覺得自己好像被迫去注視一具具無言的軀體,平凡卻又詭異的空間,和永無止境的孤寂。看完後我又不自覺不停地去思索電影中想要呈現的是什麼。看似簡單的故事,為何會讓許多人看不懂,又為何會讓我頭殼壞掉地去拿他的電影來寫論文。歡迎TT-Forum的朋友們一起來探討和分享看蔡明亮電影的經驗。我的報告會簡單介紹一些西方學者對身體性別和空間的論述,並播放電影“河流” 和“不散” 中的一些片段來分析身體和空間之間情慾交流與對話的可能性。

關於蔡明亮導演: imdb; wikipedia

Sunday, October 08, 2006

天明 10/07/06

Location: RLM 13.202

Title: Myth & Misunderstanding in Daily Physics生活中的物理誤解與迷思

微波爐可以加熱水嗎?微波加熱的水有害健康?什麼是MRI?天空為何是藍色的?

For slides, click here