Tag Archives: information

Democracy of the Algorithm

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 03 November 2009, 2:27 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

Working on the Society of the Query conference, I often find myself confronted with an unquestioned believe in what are believed to be the empowering or even emancipating qualities of universally accessible open and free information. Michael Stevenson once referred to this believe as Information Determinism, as if information by itself will solve social and political issues. Realizing universal availability…

‘Useless Content’ – Part 1

marieellensluis | 22 September 2009, 11:56 am | tags: , , , , ,

‘Wikipedia is not a valid source’. That’s a common critique on the online encyclopedia. Erin Harty from the University of Idaho stresses that the information on Wikipedia doesn’t have any academic background and that it ‘is not really an encyclopedia but an online magazine written by volunteers who do not need to have any specialized knowledge on anything at all’.

Wikipedia: on the Value of Information and the Concept of Censorship

Charlotte van Brakel | 20 September 2009, 11:11 pm | tags: , , , , ,

It’s a fact that people more and more gather information from the internet and other digital sources instead of learning -to master- that information. What will be the long term effects of this development? Does the posibility to search and read about almost everything that exists increases our knowledge and understanding of the world or will it lead to people…

The Building Blocks of Information Visualization

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 03 October 2008, 12:46 am | tags: , , ,

Thursday Christian Behrens and Yuri Engelhardt did a workshop on the Universiteit van Amsterdam on the building blocks of information visualization. Christian Behrens created out of his master thesis on designing pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design, a website which is a pattern browser that lets the user interactively search for pattern components that fit best with a users particular design…