Infomediation and…Ice Cream? In the following NodeXL graph, 5,275 Twitter users all used the term “baskin robbins” or replied to or were mentioned in a tweet with that term used. The gallery graph gives us a lot of information not only about the users in the data collected but also the top hashtags and URLs […]
You don’t have to look farther than the success of show’s like Black Mirror or Stranger Things to see how, currently, content creation matters to cultural production. While many of the fictional storylines presented in these shows are based on actual technology we have already created and oftentimes already use (across many decades), many of […]
In 1890, Guglielmo Marconi discovered radio. There is some debate regarding whether Nikola Tesla should have received credit instead of Marconi, and a case concerning financial compensation was taken to the Supreme Court years later in 1943. Radio transmissions sent and received their first signal in Italy in 1895. In 1902, the first successful transatlantic […]