24.09.2020

Seecum Cheung

The main topic 'Polarization'

Potential subtopics: 
- The Violence of Language
- Polarization in media; how we perceive news differently and affects our behaviour towards others
- Polarization within the election system (Dutch or International)
- Polarization within the academy; the academy as a bubble
- How has polarization evolved? What are the online and offline effects?

Interesting links from Seecum:

- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-alexandra-bell-is-disrupting-racism-in-journalism
- https://onbeing.org/programs/ocean-vuong-a-life-worthy-of-our-breath/
- https://vimeo.com/129322969
- https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/rewriting-racist-headlines

Things we discussed:

- White terrorists are almost never being called terrorists in Western media
- Playing with headlines and images: how the same news is being presented differently, which changes the story
- Fake news within the Black Lives Matter movement in Canada

How to start our project / Questions to ask:

- Why do we have an opinion?
- How do we deal with news and how do we spread it to friends, school, family etc?
- What kind of language do we want to create?
- Compare differences and analyse and compare them
- Analysing image content and languages

24.09.2020

Rosa Pons Cerda

Notes / topics discussed:

- Anger, about the two groups, left and right (to be left)
- In the Netherlands its really extreme, how about other countries?
- The centre or belonging to a group (polarization)
- What kind of media and research do you start with?
- Methods of recording: radio, newspaper headlines, comparing with others with our one.
- How do we spread the news?
- How do we read and store information?

https://www.alexandrabell.com/public-work

16.10.2020

Seecum Cheung

- It is a huge project, the topics you are researching might be too big and you might get lost in all the research you gather. Try to narrow it down.
- Looking at the news articles: having the image of the newspaper in there. Having a copy of the broadsheet. Play with the fonts on top of the images. Scans of 1 page of a newspaper and using different fonts on top of it.
- Putting in the scans of the 2 pages of the Jos B. article

The role of violence to explain war
The violence of images is another topic, might be too broad
- Show the context
- Explain context
- Slow down; choose one topic;

Seecum Cheung

09.10.2020

06.11.2020

Midterm Presentation

- You talk quite literally about the use of font and images etc. but what if you looked at the effect on people and dive more into how a divide is being created by these platforms.
- A good example is how the media creates echo chambers and conspiracy theories etc.
- Is it only going to be focussed on newspapers? Or the media in general?
- How are you going to create a publication that won't be polarized? How will you know that everyone will perceive the article the same way?
- Reaching out to people who are not part of your circle or do not share the same education.
- Looking at think tanks and other organisations that research on engineering of news representation
- Updating your Hotglue website

Every day, pick up a newspaper, one of you takes the left and the right
Editors: how do they look at text, cross out certain words
Harun Farocki; how he showed 11
Learn about the behavior of an editor / learning from another media outlet

Citizen journalism

19.11.2020

Javier Lloret Pardo

- It still feels a bit broad in how you tell the story
- How to get more input on polarization: Exhibition survey; people need to share their thoughts on some questions lay-out through the exhibition.
- A mapping of contradictory thoughts. Pick a side, pin your opinion. (Analogue way) If you focus on getting information from people, you have to get a lot of opinions. How to do this digitally? (With buttons on a website).
- Create an online set of questions and it creates a survey.
- Another option: What is gonna be the main goal: (The same information, but influence of language)
- Data visualization: comparing newspapers and analyzing every item (photographs, title etc.) Visualizing the data in a way that really told a story. They classified all the information and it made the reader realize how the information influences them.

20.11.2020

Golnar Abbasi

G: What exactly will your toolkit exist of? What kind of content?
S&H: How to look at images, colour/design and written language (content vs design)

G: 
- A toolkit is a very clear solution to your research question. Try to actually use the research you did (articles, opinion pieces etc.) to make your point stronger.
- You can use cartoons, because they're quite controversial, but make a total different point
- How exactly do you construct the project?
- Make sure your examples really strengthen the point. Walk the reader through the examples you have. Make it simple and really understandable.
- Put the most effort into finding good examples to make your point stronger.