Visualizing Temporal Dynamics

We are restarting our monthly Data Vis meetup series with a first—remote—talk. We will be gathering in Inspace physically to celebrate the possibility be able to come together. As always, we will have space for smaller talks. Please get in touch if you want to present. On this note, we have Sarah Schoetter (in-person) briefly talking about ongoing research in responsive visualization of geographic data. She will show some demo visualizations as is looking for people with experience in responsive visualization to discuss her research. Find her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahschoettler

DataVis meetups are informal community events and are open to everyone.

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In this remote online talk, Tomaso will propose a conceptual and methodological shift. A shift away from the topological paradigm, which currently dominates Internet studies, and back to an older but still vibrant paradigm of temporal media analysis. Backtracking to the research on radio and television and even further back to the study of oral culture, Tomaso will introduce the notion of ‘memecry’ to conceptualize the dynamics of repetition-with-variation that characterize Internet memes. Tomaso will illustrate this idea through a project Tomaso recently carried out with Sal Hagen of the OI Lab, analyzing and visualizing memetic formulas from 341 million posts of the infamous far-right forum 4chan/pol/.

Read our paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4225709 See our visualization: https://oilab.eu/formulas/

About the Speaker

Tommaso Venturini is associate professor at the Medialab of the University of Geneva, researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet and Society, and founder of the Public Data Lab. In 2017 and 2018, he has been researcher at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon and recipient of the “Advanced Research” fellowship of the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation. In 2016, Tommaso has been “digital methods lecturer” at the Department of Digital Humanities of King’s College London. From 2009 to 2015, he has coordinated the research activities of the médialab of Sciences Po Paris.

Personal URL: http://www.tommasoventurini.it/wp/

People involved

• Alexis Pister
• Uta Hinrichs (Google Scholar)
• Benjamin Bach (Google Scholar)
• Xinhuan Shu