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Working with data physicalization is a wonderful challenge. I prompted my Northeastern CAMD Physical Computing students to create prototype digital data sculptures. They showed housing data, rat populations , dates of wine harvest, and migrant populations; using Arduino, motors, sensors, LED strips & more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6v-B3qeWs

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Can journalists create compelling experiences out of their data stories? My Data Storytelling students created and filmed short participatory IRL data sculptures. Wonderful prototypes about graduation rates, dining costs, financial literacy, & expected incomes. 📊+📹+👨‍👩‍👧‍👦=🤔💡

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My colleague and mentor @ethanz is suing Meta, making the novel and compelling case that part of Section 230 allows us to install "middleware" tech that changes our feeds (with @knightcolumbia). Important case to follow if you care about the future of social media and the internet 🤞🏽. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/opinion/facebook-court-internet-meta.html

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Computation social science Q: what do you find is the best research option for a contemporary dataset quantifying partisanship of US online news media sources? Our internal Media Cloud options used social-sharing-based metrics we can no longer replicate so they're dated. Thx for any recommendations.

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@janeadams I appreciate those pointers. Both look built around aggregating articles scores from reader panels. Do you see these holding up and being useful in your research? Also hard to tell if they allow source score data download (for a fee?).

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I study the news with computers. Critical to remember where my methods came from. Read Ellen Gruber Garvey on the "Abolitionists' Database Innovations" to learn about how the Grimké-Welds built a corpus of more than 20k newspapers, extracted ads about recovering escaped slaves, anonymized the data, categorized content, connected related interviews, and published over 100k copies of their 200+ page investigative data report. In 1839(!). https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/3992/chapter-abstract/166420/facts-and-FACTS-Abolitionists-Database-Innovations

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Is there a group that tracks white supremacist (wanna-be Nazi) public events like marches, etc.? SPLC has an authoritative list of groups, but I don't see a dataset about public demonstrations. Thx for any links or pointers.

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Weekend joy: serendipity led me to be one of the first to get my hands on a physical copy of @kanarinka 's Counting Feminicide. Short summary: a must-read from anyone working on data activism and "restorative/transformative" goals. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048873/counting-feminicide/

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Weekend read: Raechel Walker building new pathways for "data science to confront and mitigate systemic oppression" with African American students. https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/unveiling-voices-boston-students-data-activism-journey-with-community-catalysts/

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Recent data story I love: local youth using data to investigate evidence of discriminatory grocery pricing. I was lucky enough to work with some of these @HydeSquareTF future leaders on our Data Theatre project and they helped us so much 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/21/metro/hyde-square-youth-stop-and-shop-pricing/

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Really enjoyed the informal watercolor viz in the recent NYT article on MENA race and identity and the census. You can be creative even in serious data stories. This style speaks to me of the human and fuzzy nature of the data. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/25/us/census-race-ethnicity-middle-east-north-africa.html

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Excited to share I'm helping Northeastern host the Computation + Journalism Symposium again this year 💻+📰=🧐 Oct 25-27 2024 in Boston bit.ly/CplusJ2024 (paper/workshop/talk submission link coming in a few weeks)

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Data Activism talk by Yeshimabeit Milner Feb 23 in NYC
https://library.barnard.edu/events/getting-critical-data-data-activism-data-4-black-lives

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Tech update: after scheduled maintenance, Media Cloud online news archive search capability is back online, with data from Nov through now. Re-ingestion of all 2023 should be done by mid-March. https://search.mediacloud.org

Also BTW... more news about robots in the US than in India (English language only)

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Appreciating public data dashboards recently. I've been masking in unventilated public spaces for the last few weeks after seeing this super-helpful wastewater surveillance data. Have winter COVID rates in Boston have peaked? 🤞🏽 Stay safe. https://www.mass.gov/info-details/wastewater-surveillance-reporting

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"Scraping is not a crime", it is a critical tool in the digital journalist's toolbox. So pleased to see @themarkup file an amicus brief in support of using journalists and others using code to pull public web information. 👏🏽 https://themarkup.org/news/2020/12/03/why-web-scraping-is-vital-to-democracy

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All the tools I find for building journalistic scrollytelling sites use hierarchy-based models for layout. But their ancestors (Macromedia Director, Adobe Flash) used timeline-based models. Do you know of any WSYWIG web scrollytelling tools that use a timeline for layout?

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How big is YouTube? It's been fascinating to watch my @iDPI_UMass colleagues explore this and now their work is finally out. Visit https://tubestats.org/ or read the exhaustive paper on their novel random sampling method: https://journalqd.org/article/view/4066/3766. Studying media sharing sites like this is critical for understanding evolving social dynamics that shape the physical world.

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Weekend thinking inspired by Prof. Paola Ricaurte Quijano's call to action in the just released "Resisting Data Colonialism". (free PDF) https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-50-resisting-data-colonialism-a-practical-intervention/

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Academics need to be able to study information flows across the internet to understand and help address disinfo and radicalization. @ethanz insightfully explains the current need and challenges we face in his recent piece https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/63752/when-internet-becomes-unknowable-social-media-tools

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Excited to share newly published Media Cloud work with my colleagues Meg Heckman and Emily Ndulue - investigating partisanship in gendered news coverage in VP Kamala Harris. It sadly persists, especially in media appealing to far right, and shows struggles to handle her multiple identities.
"Powerful in pearls and Willie Brown’s mistress: a computational analysis of gendered news coverage of Kamala Harris on the partisan extremes" published in Feminist Media Studies
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2023.2280545

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Boston folks: playful pop-up science exhibition opening Dec 1 🎉 created by my interactive educational exhibit design students at Northeastern (thx to Boston CyberArts Gallery for hosting us). https://www.bostoncyberarts.org

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Potential PhD students: Northeastern CAMD offers an Interdisciplinary Design and Media PhD program. Practice-based research and scholarship in creative fields and industries. Innovative and human-centered approach to advanced graduate study. Application deadline 12/1 https://camd.northeastern.edu/program/interdisciplinary-design-and-media-phd/

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Found a bike. Found a mural. Found some bike lanes. Philly treating me well so far for #AoIR2023

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Music is power. 🎺🪘✊🏽📢 This weekend's HONK! Festival brings together protest and street brands from around the world in solidarity to celebrate and learn with each other. If you're near Boston don't miss it. It not, plan a trip 🤣 I'm playing Sat @ 4pm right in the square. https://honkfest.org/

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