Thanks to our speakers Lydia Laurenson, Pleuni Pennings, and Daniel Cohen for three excellent talks. If you want to learn more, you’re in luck! Here are all the links and citations mentioned in their talks, and a list of materials that riff on the presenters’ themes provided by our friends at the San Francisco Public Library. Enjoy!
“Censorship, Colors, Collectivism, & Salesmanship: How Culture Affects Social Media” by Lydia Laurenson
- Twitter: @lydialaurenson, Blog: journalismforbrands.com
- Lydia’s O’Reilly Strata article “Measuring culture” with much more info about the topics in her talk
- And TechCrunch article “The Censorship Effect“
- Products mentioned: LINE, Kik, Bubbly, WeChat,
- Wan-Hsiu (Sunny) Tsai, Linjuan Rita Men, (2012) “Cultural values reflected in corporate pages on popular social network sites in China and the United States”, Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, Vol. 6 Iss: 1, pp.42 – 58 (Abstract)
- Hochman, Nadav, and Raz Schwartz. “Visualizing Instagram: Tracing cultural visual rhythms.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) in conjunction with the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM–12). 2012. (Full text)
- Usunier, Jean-Claude, and Nicolas Roulin. “The influence of high-and low-context communication styles on the design, content, and language of business-to-business web sites.” Journal of Business Communication 47.2 (2010): 189-227. (Abstract)
From the SFPL:
- Friends, followers, and the future : how social media are changing politics, threatening big brands, and killing traditional media / Rory O’Connor.
- Social media is bullshit / B. J. Mendelson. (ebook!)
- Mentioned by Bart: Writing on the wall : social media, the first 2,000 years / Tom Standage.
“Learning from Stupid Ideas & HIV Treatment Gone Wrong” by Pleuni Pennings
- Twitter: @pleunipennings, Blog: http://pleunipennings.wordpress.com/
- HIV Statistics: San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and the CDC
- Reiss, Peter, et al. “Resumption of HIV antigen production during continuous zidovudine treatment.” The Lancet 331.8582 (1988): 421. (Subscription/Paywall)
- Pennings, Pleuni Simone. “Standing genetic variation and the evolution of drug resistance in HIV.” PLoS computational biology 8.6 (2012): e1002527. (Full text)
- Margot, N. A., et al. “Resistance development over 144 weeks in treatment‐naive patients receiving tenofovir disoproxil fumarate or stavudine with lamivudine and efavirenz in Study 903*.” HIV medicine 7.7 (2006): 442-450. (Full text)
From the SFPL:
- And the band played on : politics, people, and the aids epidemic / Randy Shilts.
- How to survive a plague [videorecording] / produced by David France, Howard Gertler ; written by David France, Todd Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk ; directed by David France.
- Quack medicine : a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America / Eric W. Boyle.
“Walk This Way: The Strange Story of Bioelectricity” by Daniel J. Cohen
- McCaig, Colin D., Bing Song, and Ann M. Rajnicek. “Electrical dimensions in cell science.” Journal of cell science 122.23 (2009): 4267-4276. (Full text)
- Zhao, Min. “Electrical fields in wound healing—an overriding signal that directs cell migration.” Seminars in cell & developmental biology. Vol. 20. No. 6. Academic Press, 2009. (Subscription/Paywall)
- The discoveries : great breakthroughs in 20th century science : including the original papers / Alan Lightman. –History of 20th c. science (vitalism vs. mechanism)
- A short history of nearly everything / Bill Bryson. (ebook!) –History of Science
- De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari by Luigi Galvani
- Cohen, Daniel J., W. James Nelson, and Michel M. Maharbiz. “Galvanotactic control of collective cell migration in epithelial monolayers.” Nature materials (2014). (Abstract, but if you contact Daniel a copy can be made upon request)
- Shocking Frogs: Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience, Piccolino and Bresadola (Google Books preview)
From the SFPL:
- The living battery; an introduction to bioelectricity [by] E.E. Suckling.
- Neurocomic / [illustrations and text] by Matteo Farinella [and] Hana Roš.
- The spark of life : electricity in the human body / Frances Ashcroft ; line drawings by Ronan Mahon.
See you on June 18th for NNSF #49. Until then, happy nerding!