a link to istanbul bienal: http://www.iksv.org/bienal/english/

here is some of the search tools that use visualization and chunking/clustering. my favorite is the visual thesaurus… Grokker www.grokker.com Vivisimo vivisimo.com Clusty clusty.com KartOO www.kartoo.com NewsIsFree www.newsisfree.com Visual Thesaurus www.visualthesaurus.com

in defining your problem area, there is a three-step formula: topic: i am studying…………question: because i want to find out what/how/why ………………….significance: in order to help my reader understand…………………..[page56] we can classify research as pure research and applied research. in … Continue reading →

goffmann in his long article begins to read where the action is with an analysis of coin-tossing. it seems a little bir naive at the beginning, but just before the transition to the real life conditions we have the general … Continue reading →

starting with the notion of fateful occupational duties, action as a kind of self oriented evocation in ritualized form of the moral scene arising when such duties exercised. action consists of chancy tasks undertaken for their own sake. excitement characters … Continue reading →

on the one hand, character refers to what is essential, and unchanging about the individual-what is characteristic of him. on the other, it refers to attributes that can be generated and destroyed during fateful moments. in this latter view the … Continue reading →

goffman in the last section shifts his focus to the character and action.. he believes that people have primary and secondary capacities that is going to be exhibited under fateful conditions. by primary capacities he means behaviors revealed under the … Continue reading →

action is to be found wherever the individual knowingly takes consequential chances perceived as avoidable.ordinarily, action will not be founnd during the weekday work routine ath home or on the job. page 194 chance is not sought out, but also … Continue reading →

i like prologues, it is the chance where you can speculate or& stimulate your potential reader’s mind. goffman begins where the action is with a prologue:“to be on the wire is life, the rest is waiting.” -karl wallenda goffman as … Continue reading →

erving goffman’s ‘interaction ritual’ consists of six articles that explore the face to face behavior in interaction. i am going to focus on the sixth article ‘where the action is’. it is the one that talks about the action, and … Continue reading →

erving goffman begins his work the presentation of self in everyday life with a quotation from santayana. i want to write it down here.the question is: why he begins his book with this quotation? masks are arrested expressions and admirable … Continue reading →