Interactive Visual Merchandising, Interactive Window-Shopping at Nordstrom, Downtown Seattle: "Writing With Light"

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Interactive Visual Merchandising, Interactive Window-Shopping at Nordstrom, Downtown Seattle: "Writing With Light" Posted: 22 Apr 2011 01:57 AM PDT Please DO Touch the Glass: Our Interactive Window Nordstrom Blog, 3/25/11 Nordstorm's Interactive Development, Visual Merchandising and Operations Teams worked on this interactive visual merchandising project, outlined in the following video: Nordstrom Downtown Seattle: Writing with Light FYI:  I will be exploring the topic of Pervasive Retail over a series of posts.  Here are some tentative blog post titles: Interactive Visual Merchandising, Screens Large and Small at the Mall Revisited, Large Displays in Public Spaces (preview of CHI 2011 workshop),  Privacy and Security Issues in Interactive, Cross-Platform/Device Pervasive Retail,  Accessibility and Cognitive Load Issues in Pervasive Retail,  Overview of Retail Customer Experience's resources, and more. http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

Revisiting Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, an on-line publication (includes links) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 06:44 AM PDT Aether is an on-line publication that focuses on the emerging and converging field of geographic media.  Given my interest in interactive multimedia technology and the fact that Social Science was one of my undegraduate majors, it makes sense that many of the topics covered in Aether would appeal to me. I discovered Aether about a year or so ago, and shared some information about it in the following post: Aether- The Journal of Media Geography (A Convergence of Disciplines).   Aether  is hosted by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Northridge.   In addition to the on-line publication, Aether has a blog, "Aether, The Blog of Media Geography", which is a great resource about workshops, events, and resources related to the focus of the publication.  Since a good number of the readers of this blog are graduate students, I decided to take the time to include in this post information and links that might be helpful to someone gathering information on a deeper level.  "Aether offers a forum that examines the geography of media, including cinema, television, the Internet, music, art, advertising, newspapers and magazines, video and animation. It is our goal to provide a space for contributions to current issues surrounding these media, beginning with constructions of space and place, cultural landscapes, society, and identity." "We invite inquiries into the production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption of all types of media and thus we will offer critical, pedagogical and discursive content that views the world in new and exciting ways. We welcome submissions from anyone wishing to publish material that extends the boundaries of the traditional academic journal. We encourage work that is highly visual or aural, including video, and will actively promote material that makes use of our digital technologies." I appreciate the fact that Aether's editors value the importance of using multimedia representation in scholarly research, embodied in the following quote from the introduction of Volume 3: "All too often we remain wedded to textuality when it comes to presenting our research.  However, as we move further into a world of advance capitalism driven by new information technologies and spaces of flow, streams of innovations, knowledge and ideas are increasingly circulated in non-textual formats. Academic geographers have long dabbled in video technology and the production of documentaries...We strongly encourage and support the use of multimedia productions in our journal and we hope we can offer an acceptable venue for those seeking to transcend (and even transgress) the knowledge-limiting restraints of traditional academic publications." - Jim Craine, Jason Dittmer, and Chris Lukinbeal, Aether, Volume Three One of the good things about Aether is that all of the volumes can be freely downloaded from the website.  For the convenience of knowledge-junkies,  I've posted links to the past seven volumes, along with information/links about the editors and editorial board of Aether.   Volume Seven | Fall, 2010 Theme: Space and Sound: "Geographies of Music, Geographers Who Play Music" http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_07/volume_07.pdf Volume Six | October 2010 http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_06/volume_06.pdf Volume Five a | March, 2010 (Edited by Tristan Thielmann) Theme: Locative Media "This special issue of Aether, edited by Tristan Thielmann, explores the spatial turn in media studies and the media turn in geographical studies, providing a sketch of the subject area "geomedia" from a phenomenological perspective and the field of "media geography" from a disciplinary perspective." http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_05a/volume_05a.pdf Volume Four | March, 2009 Theme: The Geography of Journalism (Edited by Mike Gasher) "This special issue of Aether brings together six papers that address news geography on a range of scales. Each speaks to the question of how the news media position the people and places that constitute their particular communities." http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_04/volume_04.pdf Volume Three | June, 2008 "One of the main reasons Aether was developed as an ejournal was to offer authors alternative publishing outlets– something that went beyond the textural format of both traditional hard journals and text-based ejournals. Volume Three presents the first articles that justify these editorial goals." http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_03/volume_03.pdf Volume Two | April, 2008 Theme:  Imagining Geography Through Interactive Media "This special issue of Aether offers an examination of the utopian and dystopian representations of digital landscapes including narratives of colonialism, gaming as social space and the influence of historical ideologies on social game space plus much more." http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_02/volume_02.pdf Volume One | November, 2007 "The premiere issue of Aether consists of a series of short essays by members of the editorial board. Each explores the author's personal interests in Media Geography and discusses the future direction of the field." http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_01/volume_01.pdf Aether's "Who's Who" Review Editor Giorgio Hadi Curti San Diego State University cedarboot@gmail.com Editors Jim Craine California State University, Northridge jwc53531@csun.edu Jason Dittmer University College London j.dittmer@ucl.ac.uk Chris Lukinbeal The University of Arizona chris.lukinbeal@arizona.edu Contributors Shawna Dark, Director Center for Geographical Studies Department of Geography California State University, Northridge shawna.dark@csun.edu David Deis Staff Cartographer Department of Geography California State University, Northridge david.deis@csun.edu Editorial Board Paul C. Adams • University of Texas at Austin Stuart C. Aitken • San Diego State University David B. Clarke • Swansea University Christina Dando • University of Nebraska, Omaha Deborah Dixon • Aberystwyth University Marcus Doel • Swansea University Colin R. Gardner • University of California, Santa Barbara Ken Hillis • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sarah F. Ives • Stanford University Ed Jackiewicz • California State University, Northridge John Paul Jones III • University of Arizona Christina Kennedy • Northern Arizona University Minelle Mahtani • University of Toronto Susan Mains • University of the West Indies, Mona Kevin McHugh • Arizona State University Christopher M. Moreno • San Diego State University Wolfgang Natter • Virginia Polytechnic Institute Joseph Palis • University of the Philippines Brent J. Piepergerdes • University of Kansas Rob Shields • University of Alberta Amy Siciliano • University of Wisconsin Paul F. Starrs • University of Reno, Nevada Dan Sutko • North Carolina State University Jonathan Taylor • California State University, Fullerton Stefan Zimmermann • University of Mainz Leo Zonn • University of Texas Aether's "Special Thanks" Stella Theodoulou, Dean • The College of Social & Behavioral Sciences California State University, Northridge stella.theodoulou@csun.edu Darrick Danta, Chair • Department of Geography California State University, Northridge darrick.danta@csun.edu Paul Adams, Communication Geography Specialty Group Department of Geography and the Environment  University of Texas, Austin Cross-posted: The World Is My Interactive Interface http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

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