Civic Mapping or, in other words, mapping information for civic engagement, has taken quite an interesting turn in the last few years. Technology has become more accessible and data more available, but the essential difference is that there is a growing interest in using maps to display information. Maps […]
Daily Archives: October 2, 2012
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I plan to complete research for a critical study that will inform a project I am currently working on, a web-based framework for collecting and analyzing stories of origin printed on product packages (ex. “Born in 1908 to a Jewish family that had been making soap since 1858, Emanuel Bronner […]
The Internet is continuing to erode the other channels of information like TV, radio, and newspapers as the source of news. One of the latest survey made by Pew Research Center (conducted in the late Spring 2012), which is taken biannually and cover the changing in the news landscape, argues […]
Internet memes and image macros—once relegated to marginal/niche online communities and subcultures such as the boards of 4chan—have in the past few years broken into the public consciousness to become an integral part of modern popular culture. We see stories about viral videos and meme culture in the Atlantic, the […]
For the past three years, I have been tracking Boston Chinatown’s movement to locate a branch of the Boston Public Library in their neighborhood. In order to understand the meaning and function of this needed public space in an immigrant enclave, I not only interviewed various community members and stakeholders, […]