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Ana Crisostomo

My academic background includes a 4-year Bachelor's Degree in Communication and the attendance of the 1st year of a Master’s Degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technology. I have, however, the greatest excuse for this ‘non-completion’: I relocated from Portugal to the Netherlands amidst my educational adventure.

My professional experience has been gathered in several industries within the private and public sectors, the commercial and non-profit spheres, and has been mainly focused on web content management and web project coordination.

In parallel to the more ‘serious matters’, a lot of my time revolves around independent and alternative music. I also like interior design and several forms of contemporary urban art. I dislike cooking and writing on the 3rd person.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/anacrisostomo
[Thesis] The Quest for Happiness in Self-Tracking Mobile Technology

[Thesis] The Quest for Happiness in Self-Tracking Mobile Technology

Abstract The practice of self-tracking became more accessible to the general public in recent years through the widespread use of connected portable devices (in particular smartphones), improved human biometric sensors, platforms and services specifically designed for monitoring purposes, and...
Visualizing individual measures of emotion

Visualizing individual measures of emotion

Personal monitoring is becoming increasingly present in many of our daily routines as a conscious and voluntary choice. If you are an outdoor fitness enthusiastic, then you are probably aware of how many miles you ran last month and...
Analyzing Information Visualization Projects on the Topic of Economic Inequality

Analyzing Information Visualization Projects on the Topic of Economic Inequality

The current paper focuses on information visualization projects related to the topic of economic inequality which can, in this particular case, be more specifically categorized under “speculative visualization” as defined by the authors Tanyoung Kim and Carl DiSalvo in...
Big data, long data and… ephemeral data?

Big data, long data and… ephemeral data?

Currently the topic of data is mostly approached in terms of volume and temporal scope – a perspective translated in expressions such as “big data” and “long data”. Nevertheless, these terms are somehow abstract to most users and only...

Data Art: From the Aesthetic Conceptualization of Data to Information Critique

The current ubiquity of data populating every aspect of an individual’s digitally connected existence, alongside the computational possibilities of harnessing the same to convert it into distilled information, has introduced the theme of data as one of the most...
Taking Care of Our Attention

Taking Care of Our Attention

This article is an exploration of the themes addressed in the book Taking Care of Youth and the Generations by Bernard Stiegler and it is part of a video project produced by Ana Crisostomo, Daria Koreniushkina, Maya Livio and Mathias Schuh. Originally...
Analyzing “new media” job postings in The Netherlands

Analyzing “new media” job postings in The Netherlands

The New Media and Digital Culture MA at the UvA attracts a significant number of international students to Amsterdam every year since its initial academic year in 2006. Assuming that some of these students would like to pursue a...

Kickstarting the crowdfunding trends

  For those who might not yet be familiar with Kickstarter, this is a U.S. based funding platform for creative projects launched on April 2009 and working on the principle of crowdfunding : people (“backers”) can pledge to fund...
A Visual Interpretation of “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”

A Visual Interpretation of “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”

Published in 1983, “Towards a Philosophy of Photography” presents Vilem Flusser’s (historical) reasoning for the establishment of a philosophy of photography in a peculiar style which refuses references to other authors and introduces his own specific lexicon. The following...
Digital identity in hybrid contemporary dance performances

Digital identity in hybrid contemporary dance performances

One topic which has fascinated me for a considerable period of time is the coexistence of the multiple facets of the online and the offline universes: is the digital identity distinct from what is commonly understood as the physical...