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A New Frontier for Data Visualization: Political Campaigning on Social Media Platforms

A New Frontier for Data Visualization: Political Campaigning on Social Media Platforms

Infographics, bar charts, projections — leading up to the German general election last week, social media feeds were flooded with a plethora of different visualizations in order to mobilize voters. Especially among young voters, social media has become a...
By on 10/04/21 Comments Off on A New Frontier for Data Visualization: Political Campaigning on Social Media Platforms
Progress, hope, change and OBEY: Technological reproducibility in the digital age

Progress, hope, change and OBEY: Technological reproducibility in the digital age

PROGRESS, HOPE, CHANGE and Obama. These words got intertwined during the 2008 presidential campaign of Barrack Obama. The correlation factor: OBEY and the reproducibility of art in the age of digital reproduction.  The following is inspired by Walter Benjamin’s...
By Charly Landman on 10/14/12 1
Visualizing Political Chatter

Visualizing Political Chatter

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 –...
By Marte Lindstrom on 05/03/11 Comments Off on Visualizing Political Chatter