Tag Archives: twitter

How to do comparative media analysis on the web: Start small.

Demet Dagdelen | 03 October 2011, 11:52 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Comment distribution on the web

I’ve always thought that in order to understand a network, like the web, better, we should be able to understand as much of the objects and actors that the network itself is made of, as possible. Whilst finishing my BA in Communication and Media Studies, I wanted to write my thesis about how/whether the structure of

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Social networks + SEO = Social SEO ?

Jesse Oyegbesan | 13 September 2011, 3:00 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sometimes the results of a search on Google, Bing or Yahoo are not really satisfying. If you search for specific terms sometimes the search results are very limited. Often only the first three search results give usable information. The search engines often only offer general information and less specific and academic content. Keeping in mind that search engines are not…

Weibo Revolution

Jidi Guo | 02 June 2011, 9:15 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As China is famous for their copied and rip-off products there is no difference in the digital sphere. Services and platforms that we have learned to love, resent or can’t go without also exist within the borders of China but only for the national market. Google became Baidu, Facebook became Renren, Foursquare became Jiepang. As social media develops and comes…

Data visualizing the story of food and emotion

Ekaterina Yudin | 11 May 2011, 10:18 am | 5 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

How do we even begin to visualize and draw connections between the intimately complex relationship that exists between food and emotion?

Can we discover patterns amongst global food trends and global emotional trends? Could data visualization help us weave a story, and make use of the complex streams of data surrounding food and its consumption, to reveal insights otherwise invisible…

Visualizing Political Chatter

Marte Lindstrom | 03 May 2011, 9:07 pm | tags: , ,

With regards to political campaigns, the Internet has attracted the attention of politicians, researchers and the general public. During the last years the medium has developed into one of the most important – if not the most important – channel of communication during political elections, and it has even taken over the place of television as the main…

Why Twitter can be the Next Big Thing in Scientific Collaboration

Sander Jansma | 02 May 2011, 8:49 am | 10 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Introduction

Imagine yourself in the following situation: You, a scientist pur sang, are busy researching and analyzing A and you are having doubts about the values in the model, suspecting a technical error. Without hesitation, you compose a tweet describing the research and the problem, attach a photo made of the model, add a hashtag (e.g. #science or #labhelp) and…

Politwittic

Jorien De Wandeler | 26 April 2011, 10:31 pm | tags: , ,

Politics in the age of new media have different characteristics than the politics before the year 2000. Since its launch, the World Wide Web revealed itself as a powerful tool to reach a large part of the (wealthy) population. The Pew Institute reported that more than 55 percent of the adult population in the United States got their news and…

Visualizing what is happening

olga paraskevopoulou | 21 April 2011, 9:47 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Going through an older post in the MoM’s blog referring to Walter’s Ong book “Orality and Literacy”, I discovered a term referring to a new “hybrid form” of culture that has spread on the internet: The Secondary Orality. The term is emphasizing the “re-emergence of an oral type of discourse within literate cultures which is fostering a communal sense and is

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TOP: Egypt, Twitter, and Activism.

Kimberley Spreeuwenberg | 19 February 2011, 11:13 am | tags: , , , , ,

Activism and social network platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are mentioned together more often than ever. The 2009 Iranian election protest was nicknamed the ‘Twitter Revolution,’ and the more recent protests in Egypt are depicted similarly. The platforms are said to enable and generate activism, but at the same time this assumed importance for activism is disputed. The use of social network platforms for (online) activism clearly asks how we should understand and characterise recent forms of protest.

Twitter brings New Media student on stage with Imogen Heap

Janice Wong | 25 November 2010, 12:42 am | 7 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Imogen Heap & Janice Wong (cello)Thanks to Twitter, I (Janice Wong – cellist and New Media student at the UvA) was given a great opportunity to perform on stage at Melkweg, Amsterdam last night with my idol: UK Grammy award winner Imogen Heap.