Words: beautiful, meaningful, colorful

Word clouds are visualization of a given text based on the frequency of the words it contains. A word cloud generator will usually eliminate punctuation and common words and mostly display nouns. They follow a simple rule: the bigger the word, generic the more often it is used. Why I use word clouds? I have …

New Media Research and Routes to Innovation

  Among the many tweets I read every day there was one last week advertising  a London event dedicated to researchers and academics. The event organized by the Research Information Network (RIN) and the National Endowment for Science, erectile Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is meant to help academics and researchers understand the influence of …

New Media for Research. Researching New Media

UPDATE: This post was picked up and reposted on the blog of the Research Students’ Society at UWS. You can therefore read it there as well. Good luck to all participating students at the UWS poster event! On Friday, May 7, 2010 the University of the West of Scotland is organizing a poster event for …