Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
On the 23rd of September the Digital Methods Initiative presented project outcomes of the 2010 Summer School. Prof. Richard Rogers started with situating Digital Methods within the field of Internet Studies as one of the three strands that deals with the computational turn within Humanities. The first project on Facebook activism was presented by PhD… Read more Slides from DMI Summer 2010 – Final Presentations
Last night Aram Bartholl from F.A.T. (Free Art & Technology) organized the third edition of their ad-hoc net.art exhibition titled ‘Speed Show’ in a internet cafe in Amsterdam. The format of the Speed Show is as follows: Hit an Internet-cafe, rent all computers they have and run a show on them for one night. All… Read more Glitchy web art on display in Amsterdam internet café
A research project by Anne Helmond, Catalina Iorga, Alejandro Ortega. Text by Anne Helmond and Catalina Iorga. Project website on the DMI wiki. From 28 June – 9 July 2010 we organized a Digital Methods Training Certificate Program which is a two-week intensive training and skill acquisition program. This project is one of project outcomes… Read more A Protest’s Web: The Cross-Syndication Practices of G20 Toronto Summit Online Protest Platforms
Stijn DeBrouwere: Information Architecture for News We’re not using the implicit structure of news articles to inform the readers. Burt Herman – Hacking the News Applying computer science to journalism Https://hackshackers.com The story as data. Standard in computer science: Object-oriented programming and model-view-controller (MVC), but how to apply it to a story? Dissect the story:… Read more Session 4: New Formats for Presenting Information and Stories
Cynthia O’Murchu (Investigative Reporter), The Financial Times   The era of the innumerate journalist is over. Is the era of technology-averse journalist also heading to a close? WikiLeaks, Scraperwiki, Theyworkforyou.org and other organisations advocating transparancy. But (how) will journalists and media handle it? Rhetoric versus reality: Open government … But data is not always… Read more Session 3: Storytelling with Data
Van Ham was part of the IBM team who developed and created Many Eyes. Data visualization is the use of: computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of data (to “amplify cognition”). “Cognition amplificators” Any representation technique that allows you to distort the truth is a medium. Data visualization as such is a medium and people have used… Read more Frank van Ham (IBM) – Data Visualization in Journalism