MA students present projects ‘Visualizing our World of Data’

Students from the MA New Media (UvA), MA Information Science (UvA) and MA Editorial Design (MaHKU) presented their interactive visualization projects at Crea. The Visualizing our World of Data program contained eight presentations (not all of them are described here), many of which were based on Flickr. One of the requirements of the assignment was… Read more MA students present projects ‘Visualizing our World of Data’

Visualizing our World of Data

When: Thursday 14 May 2009, 15:00-17:45 o’clock Where: CREA Theater, Turfdraagsterpad 17, Amsterdam, http://crea.uva.nl Entrance: free In a unique cooperation of three master programs, students have developed eight interactive visualization projects. Graphic designers from the Utrecht Graduate School of Art and Design, media analysts from the Faculty of Humanities and computer scientists from the Science… Read more Visualizing our World of Data

Online News models visualized by my students

Today, during the New Media course for the first year students at the University of Amsterdam we discussed ‘Citizen Journalism’ (Flew 2008) and ‘From Blogs to Open News: Notes towards a Taxonomy of P2P Publications.’ (Bruns 2003). Concepts such as gatewatching, gatekeeping and open news were central to their assignment. I asked them to look… Read more Online News models visualized by my students

Recalling RFID: Visualizing the RFID Imagery According to Google

The Recalling RFID seminar on Friday was nicely complemented by workshops on Saturday. With the Digital Methods Initiative we conducted research on various aspects of RFID on the web which resulted in five different projects. I worked on a project titled “RFID Imagery: ‘Wet’ and ‘Dry’ Associations Compared” with Esther Weltevrede, Laura van der Vlies… Read more Recalling RFID: Visualizing the RFID Imagery According to Google