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  • Thomas Wielemaker
  • Url: http://www.thomaswielemaker.com
  • Posts: 8
  • About the user: Graduate of UvA's MA in New Media New Media and Digital Culture, Thomas Wielemaker currently works as new media strategist whilst also pursuing his interests in information visualization.

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Information Visualization and Conflict

Thomas Wielemaker | 25 May 2010, 10:41 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

The visualization of information has long been a tool for generals and historians alike to go over military strategy and to materialize the concomitants of battle. As military operations continue within an increasingly data-rich environment, we must ask if more can’t be done to implement and improve upon the tools that may have the power to aid in…

Casual InfoViz – Beneficial or Banal?

Thomas Wielemaker | 04 May 2010, 7:46 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Although most information graphics and information visualizations to date have strived to deal with vast amounts of important, albeit often unintelligible, data in new and meaningful ways in the hopes of educating or effecting change, some recent forays into the field are narrowing their focus on more quotidian and, perhaps, ego…

VideoSongs: a Cottage (Remix Culture) Industry

Thomas Wielemaker | 05 November 2009, 10:24 pm | tags: , ,

The YouTube account stats under my profile badge now boast over 13,000 videos watched, but besides the occasional surfing squirrel, dramatic chipmunk (technically a prairie dog) or Dawkins diatribe, I spend most of my time on YouTube listening to music. Remixes, covers, mash-ups and live performances of some of my old favorites…

“Frames of War” meets Games of War

Thomas Wielemaker | 31 October 2009, 2:34 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

In Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?, Judith Butler posits that modern warfare is waged both on the battlefield and in the media. As this is nothing new to propaganda studies, Butler qualifies her views by propounding that…

Social Signifiers on Social Networking Sites

Thomas Wielemaker | 31 October 2009, 2:10 pm | 2 comments | tags: , ,

The days when ‘fellas’ in high school gave their gals their class rings to establish their relationships are long gone and in its place dudes are getting away with simply changing their relationships statuses on Facebook or MySpace when they “bag a chick.” Today, Joe Schmoe likes to…

Twitter: “Blurb 2.0″

Thomas Wielemaker | 11 October 2009, 5:59 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

The acceleration of communication is a product of our growing need or desire to handle larger amounts of information in shorter periods of time. As efficient as this may sound, there has been somewhat of a public outcry against this tendency’s effect on our increasingly condensed expressions, which have been described as…

Wikipedia Edit Wars: The Web Encyclopedia as a Political Battleground

Thomas Wielemaker | 21 September 2009, 12:32 pm | tags: , , ,

The United States is a vast expanse of landscape in which millions of people hold a myriad of differing opinions. Due to its open editing policy, many of these opinions have found their way on to Wikipedia. With high internet penetration statistics and its origins in the US, Wikipedia has exploded over the last eight years. The statistics on the…

Michael Rush’s “New Media in Art”: A Review

Thomas Wielemaker | 17 September 2009, 10:16 am | tags: , , ,

In the 19th century the art world was shaken by the introduction of new technologies that threatened contemporary ideas of art and what people considered art to its core. Since then, there have been both major developments in the ways art is created and art theory. With each new step forward each…