UID/CCI/04667/2016Jornalismo de dados ganhou muito destaque na última década. Redações ao redor d... more UID/CCI/04667/2016Jornalismo de dados ganhou muito destaque na última década. Redações ao redor do mundo têm investido cada vez mais nessa prática jornalística, prémios têm sido criados para a modalidade e a audiência tem correspondido com uma atenção crescente. O tópico também tem despertado um interesse crescente na academia, com investigações sobre a classificação tipológica do jornalismo quantitativo (quantitative journalism); trabalhos etnográficos sobre os profissionais dedicados à produção desse material; análises dos diversos processos interativos presentes nas peças de jornalismo de dados; e a receção desses conteúdos pelos usuários. Todavia, histórias contadas com dados ou que surgem a partir deles não é algo novo. Embora existam trabalhos sobre a história do jornalismo quantitativo em outros países, não há ainda muitas investigações sobre o tema em Portugal. Neste trabalho mostramos que desde a Monarquia Constitucional (1820-1910) números e tabelas eram usados para além d...
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, em Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016), argumenta que os... more Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, em Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016), argumenta que os media se tornam mais importantes quando parecem não ter importância—quando transitam do "novo" para o "habitual". A autora interpreta a integração das redes sociais nos nossos hábitos como um conceito definidor do presente. Com o momento pandémico, os modos contemporâneos de existência fizeram emergir tais mediações como globalmente evidentes. As fragilidades expostas da vida real, orgânica parecem agora ser mediadas através da existência digital e da mediação tecnológica dos novos media habituais. No contexto da pandemia, "a vida no écran" torna-se o cânone da existência contemporânea. Este número da Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens reúne artigos, entrevistas e ensaios visuais sobre as mediações dos novos media habituais, com foco no individual ou no pequeno coletivo, que se relacionam com esta perspectiva da intimidade digital no contemporâneo.
In this interview, the American artist and filmmaker Natalie Bookchin shares her reflection on fo... more In this interview, the American artist and filmmaker Natalie Bookchin shares her reflection on formal practices of social and mediated experience in her working method. Bookchin is a gleaner of online video fragments organized into operatic films. She also shared some ideas about her new project, about the fate and meaning of physical barriers.
In this interview, the American artist and filmmaker Natalie Bookchin shares her reflection on fo... more In this interview, the American artist and filmmaker Natalie Bookchin shares her reflection on formal practices of social and mediated experience in her working method. Bookchin is a gleaner of online video fragments organized into operatic films. She also shared some ideas about her new project, about the fate and meaning of physical barriers.
In "Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media" (2016), Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that the... more In "Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media" (2016), Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that the media become most important when they seem unimportant—when they transition from the “new” to the “habitual”. The author interprets the integration of social networks in our habits as a defining concept of the present. With the pandemic moment, the modes of existence gave rise to such contemporary mediations as globally evident. The exposed fragilities of real-life now seem to be mediated through the digital existence and technological mediation of the new usual media. In the context of the pandemic, “life on the screen” becomes the canon of contemporary existence.
This issue of Journal of Communication and Languages brings together articles, interviews and visual essays on the mediations of the new usual media, focusing on the individual or the small collective, which relate to this perspective of digital intimacy in the contemporary.
Twitter gained new levels of political prominence with Donald J. Trump’s use of the platform. Alt... more Twitter gained new levels of political prominence with Donald J. Trump’s use of the platform. Although previous work has been done studying the content of Trump’s tweets, there remains a dearth of research exploring who opinion leaders were in the early days of his presidency and what they were tweeting about. Therefore, this study retroactively investigates opinion leaders on Twitter during Trump’s 1st month in office and explores what those influencers tweeted about. We uniquely used a historical data set of 3 million tweets that contained the word “trump” and used Latent Dirichlet Allocation, a probabilistic algorithmic model, to extract topics from both general Twitter users and opinion leaders. Opinion leaders were identified by measuring eigenvector centrality and removing users with fewer than 10,000 followers. The top 1% users with the highest score in eigencentrality ( N = 303) were sampled, and their attributes were manually coded. We found that most Twitter-based opinion ...
Creating a visualization that conveys a narrative requires choosing the dimensions and features t... more Creating a visualization that conveys a narrative requires choosing the dimensions and features that help tell the story. Time and space are two of these storytelling attributes which are commonly present in the story's structure. Thus, these should be considered in the creation process. Narrative Visualization is still a new field in Information Visualization research, and while there are guidelines for designing visualizations, specific ones for this new area are still lacking. Therefore, supported by previous research on broad recommendations for designing visualizations, we propose a specific set of guidelines to structure effective visual narratives divided into four decision categories: Intent, Spatio-temporal, Interaction, and Narrative Elements.
Creating a visualization that conveys a narrative requires choosing the dimensions and features t... more Creating a visualization that conveys a narrative requires choosing the dimensions and features that help tell the story. Time and space are two of these storytelling attributes which are commonly present in the story's structure. Thus, these should be considered in the creation process. Narrative Visualiza-tion is still a new field in Information Visualization research, and while there are guidelines for designing visualizations, specific ones for this new area are still lacking. Therefore, supported by previous research on broad recommendations for designing visualizations, we propose a specific set of guidelines to structure effective visual narratives divided into four decision categories: Intent, Spatio-temporal, Interaction, and Narrative Elements.
This number seeks to collect contributions on:
* “habitual new media” cultural mediations, focus... more This number seeks to collect contributions on:
* “habitual new media” cultural mediations, focusing on the individual or the small collective, which relate to this perspective of digital intimacy in the contemporary; * macro perspectives within the scope of Media Theories, on the relationship between progress and obsolescence of cultural technologies, or reflections on digital networks and their impact on the reproduction of control systems or the creation of resistance and solidarity movements; * critical perspectives on the impact of the current pandemic context on cultural media and mediations, within the scope of Cultural Analytics. (Manovich, 2020). *analysis of these themes in different segments and communities, particularly in minorities or vulnerable groups, and digital projects to overcome this context; *historical perspectives on cultural media and their relationship with the concept of “habit” and progress, such as photography, cinema, sound technologies or others, and moments of tension “between medias”; * artistic and creative practices that address these contexts, in visual arts, cinema but also sonic, multimedia or web art expressions; digital ethnographies under these themes, focusing online experiences. * recent perspectives of the different digital social movements of 2011, their mediations and their impacts, but also of recent digital social movements, anchored online, such as #metoo or #BLM, or #XR (Extinction Rebellion) and their digital practices or artivist expressions.
2016 20th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), 2016
Visualizations became essential to understand large datasets and abstract information. Data Visua... more Visualizations became essential to understand large datasets and abstract information. Data Visualizations are increasingly used to tell compelling stories, particularly in journalism. In order to engage the users with complex data, interaction techniques are incorporated into storytelling, emerging narrative visualization. Narrative visualization attempts not only to present information with context, but also to allow users to explore the dataset, find patterns or structures in the data, providing the users with control over the insights she/he gains from interaction. Interaction techniques play a key role in narrative visualization improving understanding of the data and stimulating insights through discovery. In this paper, we explore the benefits of adding interaction techniques to data visualization. Drawing on case studies from Portuguese news media, we identified strategies to enhance storytelling in visualizations and to provide better insights through different types of interactivity.
Media, informação e literacia: rumos e perspetivas, 2020
Exemplos de reportagens pioneiras que usaram dados como fonte primária de informação Ilo Alexandr... more Exemplos de reportagens pioneiras que usaram dados como fonte primária de informação Ilo Alexandre mail@iloaguiar.com FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1256-6613 Resumo Matérias com características de Jornalismo de Dados (JdD) tem se tornado cada vez mais regulares e populares ao redor do mundo. A possibilidade de contar histórias complexas de forma interativa é um grande diferencial na prática do JdD. Alguns autores argumentam, todavia, que o JdD não é algo novo, sendo possível rastrear sua origem até os primórdios da própria imprensa. Este artigo apresenta a evolução do JdD, destacando as suas principais fases. Identificamos reportagens pioneiras de JdD em diferentes momentos da história do género em Portugal, além de analisar o cenário atual no país.
Visualizations became essential to understand large datasets and abstract information. Data Visua... more Visualizations became essential to understand large datasets and abstract information. Data Visualizations are increasingly used to tell compelling stories, particularly in journalism. In order to engage the users with complex data, interaction techniques are incorporated into storytelling, emerging narrative visualization. Narrative visualization attempts not only to present information with context, but also to allow users to explore the dataset, find patterns or structures in the data, providing the users with control over the insights she/he gains from interaction. Interaction techniques play a key role in narrative visualization improving understanding of the data and stimulating insights through discovery. In this paper, we explore the benefits of adding interaction techniques to data visualization. Drawing on case studies from Portuguese news media, we identified strategies to enhance storytelling in visualizations and to provide better insights through different types of interactivity.
Henfil foi um dos mais importantes cartunistas do Brasil. Sua vasta obra marcou o período em que ... more Henfil foi um dos mais importantes cartunistas do Brasil. Sua vasta obra marcou o período em que a ditadura militar esteve no poder. O presente trabalho procura depreender a ideologia que orientava as suas charges. Para tanto realizamos um breve histórico do humor político e da charge do autor. Demonstramos como o riso crítico pode iniciar a derrocada de uma instituição e potencializar a criação de uma nova. A metodologia adotada para examinar a ideologia das charges de Henfil foi a semiótica de Greimas.
UID/CCI/04667/2016Jornalismo de dados ganhou muito destaque na última década. Redações ao redor d... more UID/CCI/04667/2016Jornalismo de dados ganhou muito destaque na última década. Redações ao redor do mundo têm investido cada vez mais nessa prática jornalística, prémios têm sido criados para a modalidade e a audiência tem correspondido com uma atenção crescente. O tópico também tem despertado um interesse crescente na academia, com investigações sobre a classificação tipológica do jornalismo quantitativo (quantitative journalism); trabalhos etnográficos sobre os profissionais dedicados à produção desse material; análises dos diversos processos interativos presentes nas peças de jornalismo de dados; e a receção desses conteúdos pelos usuários. Todavia, histórias contadas com dados ou que surgem a partir deles não é algo novo. Embora existam trabalhos sobre a história do jornalismo quantitativo em outros países, não há ainda muitas investigações sobre o tema em Portugal. Neste trabalho mostramos que desde a Monarquia Constitucional (1820-1910) números e tabelas eram usados para além d...
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, em Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016), argumenta que os... more Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, em Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016), argumenta que os media se tornam mais importantes quando parecem não ter importância—quando transitam do "novo" para o "habitual". A autora interpreta a integração das redes sociais nos nossos hábitos como um conceito definidor do presente. Com o momento pandémico, os modos contemporâneos de existência fizeram emergir tais mediações como globalmente evidentes. As fragilidades expostas da vida real, orgânica parecem agora ser mediadas através da existência digital e da mediação tecnológica dos novos media habituais. No contexto da pandemia, "a vida no écran" torna-se o cânone da existência contemporânea. Este número da Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens reúne artigos, entrevistas e ensaios visuais sobre as mediações dos novos media habituais, com foco no individual ou no pequeno coletivo, que se relacionam com esta perspectiva da intimidade digital no contemporâneo.
In this interview, the American artist and filmmaker Natalie Bookchin shares her reflection on fo... more In this interview, the American artist and filmmaker Natalie Bookchin shares her reflection on formal practices of social and mediated experience in her working method. Bookchin is a gleaner of online video fragments organized into operatic films. She also shared some ideas about her new project, about the fate and meaning of physical barriers.
In this interview, the American artist and filmmaker Natalie Bookchin shares her reflection on fo... more In this interview, the American artist and filmmaker Natalie Bookchin shares her reflection on formal practices of social and mediated experience in her working method. Bookchin is a gleaner of online video fragments organized into operatic films. She also shared some ideas about her new project, about the fate and meaning of physical barriers.
In "Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media" (2016), Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that the... more In "Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media" (2016), Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that the media become most important when they seem unimportant—when they transition from the “new” to the “habitual”. The author interprets the integration of social networks in our habits as a defining concept of the present. With the pandemic moment, the modes of existence gave rise to such contemporary mediations as globally evident. The exposed fragilities of real-life now seem to be mediated through the digital existence and technological mediation of the new usual media. In the context of the pandemic, “life on the screen” becomes the canon of contemporary existence.
This issue of Journal of Communication and Languages brings together articles, interviews and visual essays on the mediations of the new usual media, focusing on the individual or the small collective, which relate to this perspective of digital intimacy in the contemporary.
Twitter gained new levels of political prominence with Donald J. Trump’s use of the platform. Alt... more Twitter gained new levels of political prominence with Donald J. Trump’s use of the platform. Although previous work has been done studying the content of Trump’s tweets, there remains a dearth of research exploring who opinion leaders were in the early days of his presidency and what they were tweeting about. Therefore, this study retroactively investigates opinion leaders on Twitter during Trump’s 1st month in office and explores what those influencers tweeted about. We uniquely used a historical data set of 3 million tweets that contained the word “trump” and used Latent Dirichlet Allocation, a probabilistic algorithmic model, to extract topics from both general Twitter users and opinion leaders. Opinion leaders were identified by measuring eigenvector centrality and removing users with fewer than 10,000 followers. The top 1% users with the highest score in eigencentrality ( N = 303) were sampled, and their attributes were manually coded. We found that most Twitter-based opinion ...
Creating a visualization that conveys a narrative requires choosing the dimensions and features t... more Creating a visualization that conveys a narrative requires choosing the dimensions and features that help tell the story. Time and space are two of these storytelling attributes which are commonly present in the story's structure. Thus, these should be considered in the creation process. Narrative Visualization is still a new field in Information Visualization research, and while there are guidelines for designing visualizations, specific ones for this new area are still lacking. Therefore, supported by previous research on broad recommendations for designing visualizations, we propose a specific set of guidelines to structure effective visual narratives divided into four decision categories: Intent, Spatio-temporal, Interaction, and Narrative Elements.
Creating a visualization that conveys a narrative requires choosing the dimensions and features t... more Creating a visualization that conveys a narrative requires choosing the dimensions and features that help tell the story. Time and space are two of these storytelling attributes which are commonly present in the story's structure. Thus, these should be considered in the creation process. Narrative Visualiza-tion is still a new field in Information Visualization research, and while there are guidelines for designing visualizations, specific ones for this new area are still lacking. Therefore, supported by previous research on broad recommendations for designing visualizations, we propose a specific set of guidelines to structure effective visual narratives divided into four decision categories: Intent, Spatio-temporal, Interaction, and Narrative Elements.
This number seeks to collect contributions on:
* “habitual new media” cultural mediations, focus... more This number seeks to collect contributions on:
* “habitual new media” cultural mediations, focusing on the individual or the small collective, which relate to this perspective of digital intimacy in the contemporary; * macro perspectives within the scope of Media Theories, on the relationship between progress and obsolescence of cultural technologies, or reflections on digital networks and their impact on the reproduction of control systems or the creation of resistance and solidarity movements; * critical perspectives on the impact of the current pandemic context on cultural media and mediations, within the scope of Cultural Analytics. (Manovich, 2020). *analysis of these themes in different segments and communities, particularly in minorities or vulnerable groups, and digital projects to overcome this context; *historical perspectives on cultural media and their relationship with the concept of “habit” and progress, such as photography, cinema, sound technologies or others, and moments of tension “between medias”; * artistic and creative practices that address these contexts, in visual arts, cinema but also sonic, multimedia or web art expressions; digital ethnographies under these themes, focusing online experiences. * recent perspectives of the different digital social movements of 2011, their mediations and their impacts, but also of recent digital social movements, anchored online, such as #metoo or #BLM, or #XR (Extinction Rebellion) and their digital practices or artivist expressions.
2016 20th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), 2016
Visualizations became essential to understand large datasets and abstract information. Data Visua... more Visualizations became essential to understand large datasets and abstract information. Data Visualizations are increasingly used to tell compelling stories, particularly in journalism. In order to engage the users with complex data, interaction techniques are incorporated into storytelling, emerging narrative visualization. Narrative visualization attempts not only to present information with context, but also to allow users to explore the dataset, find patterns or structures in the data, providing the users with control over the insights she/he gains from interaction. Interaction techniques play a key role in narrative visualization improving understanding of the data and stimulating insights through discovery. In this paper, we explore the benefits of adding interaction techniques to data visualization. Drawing on case studies from Portuguese news media, we identified strategies to enhance storytelling in visualizations and to provide better insights through different types of interactivity.
Media, informação e literacia: rumos e perspetivas, 2020
Exemplos de reportagens pioneiras que usaram dados como fonte primária de informação Ilo Alexandr... more Exemplos de reportagens pioneiras que usaram dados como fonte primária de informação Ilo Alexandre mail@iloaguiar.com FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1256-6613 Resumo Matérias com características de Jornalismo de Dados (JdD) tem se tornado cada vez mais regulares e populares ao redor do mundo. A possibilidade de contar histórias complexas de forma interativa é um grande diferencial na prática do JdD. Alguns autores argumentam, todavia, que o JdD não é algo novo, sendo possível rastrear sua origem até os primórdios da própria imprensa. Este artigo apresenta a evolução do JdD, destacando as suas principais fases. Identificamos reportagens pioneiras de JdD em diferentes momentos da história do género em Portugal, além de analisar o cenário atual no país.
Visualizations became essential to understand large datasets and abstract information. Data Visua... more Visualizations became essential to understand large datasets and abstract information. Data Visualizations are increasingly used to tell compelling stories, particularly in journalism. In order to engage the users with complex data, interaction techniques are incorporated into storytelling, emerging narrative visualization. Narrative visualization attempts not only to present information with context, but also to allow users to explore the dataset, find patterns or structures in the data, providing the users with control over the insights she/he gains from interaction. Interaction techniques play a key role in narrative visualization improving understanding of the data and stimulating insights through discovery. In this paper, we explore the benefits of adding interaction techniques to data visualization. Drawing on case studies from Portuguese news media, we identified strategies to enhance storytelling in visualizations and to provide better insights through different types of interactivity.
Henfil foi um dos mais importantes cartunistas do Brasil. Sua vasta obra marcou o período em que ... more Henfil foi um dos mais importantes cartunistas do Brasil. Sua vasta obra marcou o período em que a ditadura militar esteve no poder. O presente trabalho procura depreender a ideologia que orientava as suas charges. Para tanto realizamos um breve histórico do humor político e da charge do autor. Demonstramos como o riso crítico pode iniciar a derrocada de uma instituição e potencializar a criação de uma nova. A metodologia adotada para examinar a ideologia das charges de Henfil foi a semiótica de Greimas.
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This issue of Journal of Communication and Languages brings together articles, interviews and visual essays on the mediations of the new usual media, focusing on the individual or the small collective, which relate to this perspective of digital intimacy in the contemporary.
* “habitual new media” cultural mediations, focusing on the individual or the small collective, which relate to this perspective of digital intimacy in the contemporary;
* macro perspectives within the scope of Media Theories, on the relationship between progress and obsolescence of cultural technologies, or reflections on digital networks and their impact on the reproduction of control systems or the creation of resistance and solidarity movements;
* critical perspectives on the impact of the current pandemic context on cultural media and mediations, within the scope of Cultural Analytics. (Manovich, 2020).
*analysis of these themes in different segments and communities, particularly in minorities or vulnerable groups, and digital projects to overcome this context;
*historical perspectives on cultural media and their relationship with the concept of “habit” and progress, such as photography, cinema, sound technologies or others, and moments of tension “between medias”;
* artistic and creative practices that address these contexts, in visual arts, cinema but also sonic, multimedia or web art expressions;
digital ethnographies under these themes, focusing online experiences.
* recent perspectives of the different digital social movements of 2011, their mediations and their impacts, but also of recent digital social movements, anchored online, such as #metoo or #BLM, or #XR (Extinction Rebellion) and their digital practices or artivist expressions.
This issue of Journal of Communication and Languages brings together articles, interviews and visual essays on the mediations of the new usual media, focusing on the individual or the small collective, which relate to this perspective of digital intimacy in the contemporary.
* “habitual new media” cultural mediations, focusing on the individual or the small collective, which relate to this perspective of digital intimacy in the contemporary;
* macro perspectives within the scope of Media Theories, on the relationship between progress and obsolescence of cultural technologies, or reflections on digital networks and their impact on the reproduction of control systems or the creation of resistance and solidarity movements;
* critical perspectives on the impact of the current pandemic context on cultural media and mediations, within the scope of Cultural Analytics. (Manovich, 2020).
*analysis of these themes in different segments and communities, particularly in minorities or vulnerable groups, and digital projects to overcome this context;
*historical perspectives on cultural media and their relationship with the concept of “habit” and progress, such as photography, cinema, sound technologies or others, and moments of tension “between medias”;
* artistic and creative practices that address these contexts, in visual arts, cinema but also sonic, multimedia or web art expressions;
digital ethnographies under these themes, focusing online experiences.
* recent perspectives of the different digital social movements of 2011, their mediations and their impacts, but also of recent digital social movements, anchored online, such as #metoo or #BLM, or #XR (Extinction Rebellion) and their digital practices or artivist expressions.