{"id":112,"date":"2011-08-28T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T19:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea228\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-08-30T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:48:11","slug":"invisible-cities-of-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea228\/articles\/invisible-cities-of-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Invisible cities of social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Invisible Cities<\/strong>
\nA project by Christian Marc Schmidt & Liangjie Xia<\/p>\n

By revealing the social networks present within the urban environment, Invisible Cities describes a new kind of city\u2014a city of the mind. It displays geocoded activity from online services such as Twitter and Flickr, both in real-time and in aggregate. Real-time activity is represented as individual nodes that appear whenever a message or image is posted. Aggregate activity is reflected in the underlying terrain: over time, the landscape warps as data is accrued, creating hills and valleys representing areas with high and low densities of data.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Invisible Cities maps information from one realm\u2014online social networks\u2014to another: an immersive, three-dimensional space. In doing so, the piece creates a parallel experience to the physical urban environment. The interplay between the aggregate and the real-time recreates the kind of dynamics present within the physical world, where the city is both a vessel for and a product of human activity. It is ultimately a parallel city of intersections, discovery, and memory, and a medium for re-experiencing the physical environment.<\/p>\n

Additional reading materials:
\nProcess documentation<\/a>
\nArticle in the Parsons Journal for Information Mapping<\/a><\/p>\n

via Invisible Cities, a project by Christian Marc Schmidt & Liangjie Xia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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