Making Sense of the (Internet) Archive: Negotiating Meaning, Memory and History in Artistic Practice

Archived Attributes: An Internet-Text Approach to Measuring Legislator Attitudes and Behavior

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123420000290 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Emily Kalah Gade ◽

Sarah Dreier ◽

John Wilkerson ◽

Anne Washington

Keyword(s):

Cost Effective ◽

Science Research ◽

Religious Rhetoric ◽

The Internet ◽

Internet Archive ◽

Scientific Analysis ◽

The Us ◽

And Behavior ◽

Attitudes And Behavior ◽

Time Invariant

Abstract The Internet Archive curated a 90-terabyte sub-collection of captures from the US government's public website domain (‘.gov’). Such archives provide largely untapped resources for measuring attributes, behaviors and outcomes relevant to political science research. This study leverages this archive to measure a novel dimension of federal legislators' religiosity: their proportional use of religious rhetoric on official congressional websites (2006–2012). This scalable, time-variant measure improves upon more costly, time-invariant conventional approaches to measuring legislator attributes. The authors demonstrate the validity of this method for measuring legislators' public-facing religiosity and discuss the contributions and limitations of using archived Internet data for scientific analysis. This research makes three applied methodological contributions: (1) it develops a new measure for legislator religiosity, (2) it models an improved, more comprehensive approach to analyzing congressional communications and (3) it demonstrates the unprecedented potential that archived Internet data offer to researchers seeking to develop meaningful, cost-effective approaches to analyzing political phenomena.

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Hypermedia, Eternal Life, and the Impermanence Agent

Leonardo ◽

10.1162/002409499553569 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 32 (5) ◽

pp. 353-358 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Keyword(s):

Eternal Life ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Browsing ◽

Original Stories ◽

Internet Archive ◽

Vannevar Bush ◽

The Web ◽

Critical Project

We look to media as memory, and a place to memorialize, when we have lost. Hypermedia pioneers such as Ted Nelson and Vannevar Bush envisioned the ultimate media within the ultimate archive—with each element in continual flux, and with constant new addition. Dynamism without loss. Instead we have the Web, where “Not Found” is a daily message. Projects such as the Internet Archive and Afterlife dream of fixing this uncomfortable impermanence. Marketeers promise that agents (indentured information servants that may be the humans of About.com or the software of “Ask Jeeves”) will make the Web comfortable through filtering—hiding the impermanence and overwhelming profluence that the Web's dynamism produces. The Impermanence Agent—a programmatic, esthetic, and critical project created by the author, Brion Moss, a.c. chapman, and Duane Whitehurst— operates differently. It begins as a storytelling agent, telling stories of impermanence, stories of preservation, memorial stories. It monitors each user's Web browsing, and starts customizing its storytelling by weaving in images and texts that the user has pulled from the Web. In time, the original stories are lost. New stories, collaboratively created, have taken their place.

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Thing Theory

Internet of Things and Advanced Application in Healthcare - Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1820-4.ch009 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 249-265 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sally A. Applin ◽

Michael D. Fischer

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Social Awareness ◽

The Internet ◽

Smart Environment ◽

Thing Theory ◽

Making Sense ◽

Location Aware ◽

Resultant Data ◽

The Internet Of Things

As healthcare professionals and others embrace the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart environment paradigms, developers will bear the brunt of constructing the IT relationships within these, making sense of the big data produced as a result, and managing the relationships between people and technologies. This chapter explores how PolySocial Reality (PoSR), a framework for representing how people, devices and communication technologies interact, can be applied to developing use cases combining IoT and smart environment paradigms, giving special consideration to the nature of location-aware messaging from sensors and the resultant data collection in a healthcare environment. Based on this discussion, the authors suggest ways to enable more robust intra-sensor messaging through leveraging social awareness by software agents applied in carefully considered healthcare contexts.

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