Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
to the dynamic blog space of the entire
country.
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Citations:
Serving as measure of popular-
ity and credibility, relationships of simi-
larity between subjects, and highlighting
proximity across domains.
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Social-Bookmarking Systems:
Such as
Delicious, using non-hierarchical classifi-
cation systems for posting publicly view-
able bookmarks, e.g., easily accessible
Delicious tag clouds stored at the servers at
Delicious, and connections between tags.
• Donations, Scrutinizing business and po-
litical practices, connections between poli-
ticians and donors.
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Email Depictions:
Representing rich con-
tainers such as in-boxes, looking by social
structures. According to the About.com
evaluation based on a Radicati Group's
estimate of 2010, “294 billion messages
per day, that means more than 2.8 million
emails are sent every second and some 90
trillion emails are sent per year. Around
90% of these millions and trillions of mes-
sages are but spam and viruses” (About.
com, 2012).
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Internet:
A collection of servers and rout-
ers linked by copper wires and fiber-optic
cables. Visual depiction of Internet is a first
step in awareness of its inherent structure.
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Literature:
Relationship between lines
and words, e.g., in topics.
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Music:
Metaphors for the notes or artists;
for example, music affinities in Last.fm
that allows keep a record of what you listen
to from any player.
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Trajectories:
with GPS and video track-
ing devices, creating a lattice of individual
networks, adding also other inputs such as
GSR - galvanic skin response related to
conducting electricity by skin.
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Twitter:
Great to investigate the behavioral
traits of social groups and a trend analysis
tool (up to 140 characters). For example,
John Maeda used his tweets for his topic
(Maeda & Bermont, 2011).
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Wikipedia:
There are currently almost 4
million articles in the English-language
Wikipedia, with all Wikipedias as total
counting about 21 millions articles in 283
languages (English Wikipedia, 2012).
The notion of translation used in
linguistics
,
as a process of translating words or text from one
language to another, has been expanding into many
domains. It may mean rendering of the meaning
assigned to words, images, formulas or other
forms of communication; it may also denote the
conversion of one form of conveying information
into another one, such as translation of an idea
into material form, or translation from theoretical
findings to a workbench stage.
In
literature
we transfer meaning (we are me-
diating) from the visual to the verbal, and beyond
the verbal. Some say that the 21
st
century brings
about the end of reading. Others counter with
the opinion: study results show that because of
the growth of social networking people read and
write much more. For example, in urban environ-
ments such as Manhattan, people are constantly
colliding with each other on the streets because
they focus on their smart phones, read emails
and postings, text their messages, read news on
online publications, or watch and share videos at
Vimeo, rather than watching their steps. (Vimeo
is a video-sharing website that has over 14M
registered members who can create, share, and
discover videos there; it reaches a global audience
of more than 85M each month). One may think
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News:
Alternative methods of dealing with
the daily news, visualizations made by the
media sources or the authors.
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Protein interaction networks and their in-
tricate structures.
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Terrorism:
With ties between the groups,
people, and decentralized organizations.
