Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

Today I attended a lecture by Christina Wodtke on the Future of IA. Although I was the only student there from the communications program more students from the program could've gained something by attending. Especially the links between the taxonomies used on websites and the meaning created in the visitor's mind. She even mentioned George Lakoff! I don't know anyone studying Communication at AAU who hasn't read at least parts of Metaphors We Live By.

It's a pity that the Communication program doesn't deal more with things like this. Some times it's like the web doesn't exist, or when you publish something on the web it suddenly loose all meaning. There's not a lot of vision in that. Sure it's geeky, but why should the engineers have a monopoly in geeky, when it's so relevant to the other topics we study?

Update

It would appear that Christina Wodkte has removed the slides from her server.

Another Update

The slides are back. Annotated and everything!