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MA thesis research blog on online news

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An excerpt of my GIF piece. Intended to be displayed as large projection against bare wall.

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“What we make of this world begins with what we know of it. What we know of it is dependent on  our means of “getting the news.” In today’s age, when we acquire much of our news information via the Internet, it is not so much that we find the news but that the news finds us.

News stories and sponsored content posing as news are constantly vying for views, achieving such when appealing to users’ emotions. From the use of exaggerated headlines and engaging visual elements to suggestive algorithms and the networked environment specific to the Internet, the web is highly capable of intriguing the senses, creating cause for clicks­ oftentimes against our better judgment.”

—Exhibition poster

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Photos from Automated, my MA Thesis Exhibit

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Process

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next...

After a successful thesis exhibition reception, I am eager to put my findings into words for my written report. I plan to create an accompanying website, as well, to host my art pieces and visually reveal my findings in new ways. 

One thing I am eager to test is to remove the variable of photographs and graphics from the news data I have collected and take a look at only the headlines. I would like to see how this would pan out within a mosaic of an emoticon. Would the small text headlines have enough visual aspects to make a visually identifiable emoticon face mosaic? 

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Photos from Automated, my MA Thesis Exhibit

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Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten

A global outpouring of grief followed the Paris assaults, but no such solidarity was expressed a day earlier when 43 civilians were killed in Lebanon.

A great read.

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“When my people died, no country bothered to light up its landmarks in the colors of their flag,” Elie Fares, a Lebanese doctor, wrote on his blog. “When my people died, they did not send the world into mourning. Their death was but an irrelevant fleck along the international news cycle, something that happens in THOSE parts of the world.”

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My thesis exhibition flyer

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Test: Emoticon made of news article imagery/text.

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The spectrum of emotion to be used in a mosaic series I am creating.

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A few more weeks!

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The last one. Haha. Google must have a sense of humor embedded in their algorithm for search suggestions.

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Questions.