Welcome to Our Class!
Posted by: jeongki on: March 4, 2009
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During the first 100 days of Obama Administration that promised a ‘new politics,’ join our discussion to ascertain 1) what that really means, and 2) the impacts of new media in our political culture.
This is an online extension of New York University tutorial course “New Politics, New Media, and the Future of Democracy.” We, as a class, invite you to join our discussions that you can follow with short videos and posts on Class Discussion and .gov Commentary.
Feel free to comment, tag, share, any thing to expand and enrich our discussion! Thanks!
Course Closed
Posted by: Jed on: August 3, 2009
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Hello! If you’re reading this, you’ve stumbled upon the blog for our class. It’s ended (sadly), and while the members of this blog may one day return to continue discussing what we started, we’ve moved on for now. Feel free to look around and leave a comment though – even though we’re studying other things at the moment, we’re still interested!
Thank you for visiting.
Visualizing Wikipedia: NYU
Posted by: Jed on: April 17, 2009
Okay, so what I really wanted to do was visualize all of Wikipedia, but seeing as to how less than half of the uncompressed contents filled up the remaining space on my hard drive, I decided to just go ahead and do a visualization of the article on NYU instead.
Visualization of Wikipedia's article on New York University
This word cloud was made with Wordle.
The results were pretty unsurprising; I really wasn’t expecting anything different. But this is an interesting way to look at text based documents; there is something about the process of turning text into an image that makes it much more consumable in the short term.
Many Eyes Visualization Sample: Avg. Annual Income
Posted by: jeongki on: April 17, 2009
Visualizing Government 2.0 Camp (2009) Attendees
Posted by: Nancy Scola on: April 16, 2009
Created with IBM’s Many Eyes tool, this tree map shows the breakdown of attendees to a recent “rebooting government” camp broken down according to the affiliation of participants. As you can see, there was a close balance between government and vendor attendees. (A live version lives here.)
Time Magazine: How Obama Is Using the Science of Change
Posted by: Nancy Scola on: April 9, 2009
Intriguing article about how the campaign made use of the ideas of some behavioral economists.
Economists’ Debate Page
Posted by: jeongki on: April 8, 2009
Economists’ Debate page. Interesting readership and participation. http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/293
This reminds me of bloggingheads.tv. http://bloggingheads.tv/
Favorite viral video and meme
Posted by: Andrew on: April 1, 2009
Boom Goes the Dynamite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W45DRy7M1no
Yo dawg, I heard you liked… (meme):
My Favorite piece of Internet meme: Bill O’Reilly Do It Live!
Posted by: jeongki on: April 1, 2009
Priceless!
Ars Technica: Young people who embrace mobile tech can feel overconnected
Posted by: Jed on: April 1, 2009
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“Almost 40 percent of the American adult population has embraced mobile technologies into their lives to keep up on social networking, sharing photos, and working while on-the-go. But not everyone in this group thinks being so connected is a good thing, and it’s not the most likely of demographics, either.”
Ars Technica: Pulling back the curtain on “anonymous” Twitterers
Posted by: Jed on: April 1, 2009
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“University of Texas researchers have shown that they can “de-anonymize” Twitter accounts based on an anonymous social network topology and a bit of outside Flickr data. They performed a similar trick with anonymized Netflix data back in 2007, and they say the lesson is clear: “anonymity is not sufficient for privacy” on the web.”
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- Nancy Scola: It didn't work for me either, Jeongki, which I suspect has to do with the fact that our site is hosted on Wordpress.com. If you post the static versio
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- Jed: While I agree that his answers presented himself much more as an educator rather than a schoolteacher, President Obama still held the press conference
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