Class Notes for November 5

Model Graphical Representations of Data Around Hurricane Sandy

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/03/before-after-hurricane-sandy-photos_n_2068996.html
• http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gc_wmb/vxt/RT_ATLANTIC/SANDY18L/
• http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at201218.asp
• http://alert.mta.info/sites/default/files/pdf/hurricane_recovery_map_bw_Nov5midday.pdf
• https://twitter.com/ElBloombito

Reading

Joshua Brown, “History and the Web, From the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies and Interaction in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries”

• “Our consciousness of the past is inextricably bound by pictures”
• Increase in pictorial archives because of digital media
• Images as evidence, not just extraneous/illuminate
• Cyberspace can be immersive, encyclopedic (based on database architecture)
• Navigating virtual space
• Integration of info vs linkage
• 19th century increase in pictures with text, Frank Leslie’s and Harpers
• Narrative and story telling

Errol Morris, “Photography as a Weapon.”

• Authenticity and manipulation of images 
• http://fluxmachine.tumblr.com/
• Photographs can deceive in many ways (can be as simple as changed captions)

Group Work Updates

• Plagiarism review