Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Session 1: Data Production, Usage and Integration From rivalrous goods (print) to non-rivalrous goods (bits). We need to move beyond datasets used to illustrate reports. There is an opportunity for an ecosystem of open data: – small pieces, loosely joined – easy to reuse, easy to recombine – lots of contributors/maintainers – distributed, decentralised –… Read more Jonathan Gray: Open Data and Data Driven Journalism
Data-driven Journalism: What is There to learn? Organized by the European Journalism Centre Opening – Mirko Lorenz: Five Ws (and one H) Premise: data provides a new perspective for journalism. Where do journalists meet within the new field of data-driven journalism? What is their common ground? Programming journalists versus storytelling journalists. Data-driven journalism (DDJ) is… Read more Data-Driven Journalism: Status and Outlook
My colleague Esther Weltevrede has compiled this excellent list of things Wired has declared dead over the past years. Wired: intitle:”* is dead” site:wired.com The Wired Graveyard: The Web Is Dead Futurism Is Dead Skype on Fring Is Dead The desktop is dead “Cyberspace” Is Dead Devo Is Dead Copyright Dead DRM Is Dead The… Read more The Wired Graveyard
This is the transcript of the Digital Methods Initiative Advanced Program Projects week 2 opening talk on Issuecrawler 1.0 and Social Media by Anne Helmond. The 2.0 denotes an ‘improved’ or progressional version of the web that builds upon and develops Web 1.0. […] Implicitly rooted in this vision of the web is a sense… Read more How Web 1.0 is the Issuecrawler?
Last week I was invited by Sven Goyvaerts from the Transmedia Postgraduate Program in Arts + Media + Design to give a lecture on Identity 2.0 as part of the Social Media & the Avatar Day, organized at the Memories of the Future symposium in Vooruit Ghent, Belgium. ANNE HELMOND / Identity 2.0 from sven… Read more Video from my presentation on Identity 2.0
Mediamatic is organizing a three day mapping festival where Esther Weltevrede and I will present our research on the Dutch blogosphere at the Mapping Ignite evening. “Map Fest takes place at Mediamatic on July 6, 8 and 9. Map Fest brings together kindred spirits to explore, create, define and oppose maps.” Day 1 is Mapping… Read more Mapping Festival at Mediamatic