Media Arts and Technology

Please post here your final project details: Title: Cultural Analytics, Cinema, and Surveillance: Transforming Culture through the Vision of Data Abstract: I explore Lev Manovich's proposal for a cultural analytics method of investigating cultural data and place it in relationship with the history o...

My primary goal for this week was to identify some potential articles, book, and proposals to look at in conjunction with Manovich's cultural analytics proposal. So far I'm looking at NSF's Cyberinfrastrucuture Vision Report published in 2007 (which Manovich mentions as a basis for the technology he...

Schedule: November 14: Refine aspects of Cultural Analytics that I will focus on in my research November 21: Identify papers and proposals to supplement Manovich’s “Cultural Analytics” proposal November 28: Further refine area of focus: Will I focus mostly on issues of internet privacy and surveill...

I am going to explore Lev Manovich's concept of "cultural analytics." My presentation can be seen here:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id ... y&hl=en_US

After unsuccessfully attempting to stray from Sepand's original code, I ultimately stuck quite close to it in order to produce a successful code. I added 'subject1' to the search for the term 'coffee' to expand the results a bit and did a second search for the word 'milk.' In this code, if you click...

Cultural Analytics Review Manovich’s proposal for what he calls “cultural analytics” seems highly relevant in a time when massive amounts of data are being generated on the internet daily by both users and corporations. What Manovich appears to be arguing for is a space in which this data can be ag...

I started my Data Mining assignment by doing a general search of the items that were checked out around the time of Hurricane Katrina. I started off by searching within the dates from 08/27/2005 to 09/27/2005, but later expanded my search from 08/01/2005 to 10/01/2005 once I narrowed my topic. Durin...

500 Billion Words Review The “500 Billion Words” project, created through the mutual efforts of two Harvard fellows and Google’s massive book scanning projects, presents an interesting opportunity for scholars in the humanities to use quantitative analysis in their research. However, for me the mor...

One interesting theme that I found across the texts that were read for class this week was the issue of viewership. What audience is the visualization intended for and how might this audience interpret the visualization? At the beginning of the first article, “Visualization Criticism”, the authors a...