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  • Jacobo Corujeira
  • Url: http://jacobocorujeira.com
  • Posts: 8
  • About the user: After more than ten years of academic formation and professional practice, the author of these texts told his friends that he was done with journalism. “Ain’t it dead, after all? Let’s turn this funeral into a party and forget the mourning” was his most remarkable sentence during these days. Then he turned his eyes into new media. His friends reminded him the vagueness of the concept “new” and made him see that this field was something that could get easily outdated, as it happened before with journalism. These arguments were not enough for him, so he insisted. By this time it was clear that he was not a man used to follow wise advices, so he kept on studying everything related to human communication: new, old and obsolete media… even the pre-media. Using an analogy with the infinite monkey theorem, Jacobo Corujeira also believes that in a very near future, machines will be capable to write much better biographies for blog’s authors than humans... if there is still electric power to keep them running.

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Generation Next: six promising data visualization applications introduced in Show Me the Data 2012

Jacobo Corujeira | 13 April 2012, 4:50 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Experience and youth are combined every year in Show Me the Data, an event organized by the University of Amsterdam and the Utrecht Graduate School of the Arts in which different groups of master students introduce data visualization projects developed in multidisciplinary teams during an eight weeks course. This year, three relevant guest speakers gave talks and offered their…

Visualizations of space, social data and a bit of history at the 2012 InfographICs conference

Jacobo Corujeira | 19 March 2012, 12:09 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Secrets of the far-distant corners of the Universe, paths of human activities seen from above, the history of infographics and even some shots of time travels on board of a DeLorean: the fifth edition of the InfographICs conference, held in the Dutch city of Zeist on 9 March, has been the meeting point of more than 300 professionals…

On Tumblr and News Curation: Interview with Ernie Smith from ShortFormBlog

Jacobo Corujeira | 31 October 2011, 8:55 am | 5 comments | tags: , , , ,

It’s no news that Tumblr is one of the fastest-growing networks. Latest data from Quantcast indicate that it receives 410,180,736 visits every month, mostly young audiences with a desperate hunger for content and a strong community feel. This hybrid between blogging platform and social network is also a great and open field for new experiences in journalism and…

Hey Jimmy Wales, Nobody Cares About your Life in the Spanish Wikipedia

Jacobo Corujeira | 25 October 2011, 9:00 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

What happens when you knock on the ‘door’ of the Wikipedia founder? Apparently nothing, if you are Spanish language speaker. Compelled to create an article for ‘the mother of all wikis’, I assumed that writing about some hobby or trivial subject was not enough for me, so I decided to ask myself this question.

The next step in order to…

Appapa: When Geolocation Becomes a Tool for Political Activism

Jacobo Corujeira | 11 October 2011, 9:55 am | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Millions of people gathered last August in the main avenues of Madrid to see Benedict XVI in the World Youth Day (WYD), but at the same time his visit was the center of a political controversy concerning its economical costs and the Pope’s remarks on social issues like abortion or gay marriage. The massive protest rallies held…

Tumblr: a social network by another name

Jacobo Corujeira | 05 October 2011, 1:30 pm | 3 comments | tags: , ,

There is no doubt about the impact of social media in the last years. More than a half of the total Internet users have active profiles in networks like Facebook, Google+ and Diaspora* in the near future, hopefully. What makes these webs important is not the model of communication they try to impose, but the…

Book review: ‘Wikileaks, Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy’

Jacobo Corujeira | 22 September 2011, 11:51 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

Wikileaks has become, in the last years, the symbol of transparency in the 21st Century. The efforts of the organization founded by Julian Assange to offer public access to relevant information about politicians, bankers and rulers of the world are reshaping not only journalism, but also democracies and dictatorial regimes. Wikileaks, Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy (Guardian…

‘It’s the Village, Stupid!’: How Hyperlocal Media Can Save Journalism

Jacobo Corujeira | 15 September 2011, 1:47 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,
Do you remember the good old days? Back then, journalism used to be a respected profession. Crowned by the rhetoric of popular culture as a sort of ‘champions of truth’ (Superman, His Girl Friday, All the President’s Men), reporters played a leading role in the capitalist western democracies during the 20th century. As the saying goes, Today’s

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