A talk I gave to the RENCI National Weather Service Technology Summit. The talk looks at how we construct conversation about weather, and how social technologies can improve our experience of weather data.

1. What if we made
weather
more social?
Fred Stutzman
School of Information and Library Science

2. IANAL
I am not a linguist

4. Adoption
Use
Privacy
Identity

5. Beautiful

6. Cool

7. Cool
Beautiful

9. Adoption
Use
Privacy
Identity

10. Pictures
Interests
Favorites

11. Symbols, Signals

12. Language
Symbols
Meaning
http://bit.ly/3ALDU6

13. http://bit.ly/2O4wws http://bit.ly/1SOCR7
Symbolic Interactionism

14. Symbolic Interactionism
People act in accordance with their
subjective understandings of the situations
in which they find themselves
People understand their experience through
the meanings found in symbols
G. Ritzer, B. Ballis Lal, H. Blumer

15. 37o F Cold
.05” Accum. Snowy
Ptly. Cloudy Beautiful
Attributes Qualities
Symbols

17. http://bit.ly/2Hn9tC

18. Attributes
http://bit.ly/2Hn9tC
Constant
Dismal
No no no. Tea... yum

19. http://bit.ly/jkHN0 http://bit.ly/dvYkR

23. Oak Forest, IL
No rain, light wind

24. Springfield, MA
Clear, Sunny, Low Humidity

25. Los Angeles, CA
Clear, Sunny, Low Humidity

26. What does “beautiful out today” mean?
Tweeter Temp/Dew Conditions
Dailylama, IL 56.8/51.7 No rain
Timclarkk, MA 57.7/22.2 Sunny, no rain
JaymeeOG, CA 67.3/23.4 Sunny, no rain

30. +

31. Massive
Mobile
Networked

32. Do you need Twitter
to know which way the wind
blows?
Fred Stutzman:
fred.stutzman@unc.edu
http://twitter.com/fstutzman
http://fredstutzman.com