Methods of Creating Creativity through De-familiarization Technique and the Role of the Audience in Interactive Graphics

The theory of de-familiarization was first introduced in the field of literature and later due to its consistency and maturity, it was also studied in other fields and branches of art. The basis of interactive graphics is based on inviting the audience in the process of forming the work, and the de- familiarization technique can provide a platform for more creativity and interaction. The purpose of this study is to identify ways to create creativity through de-familiarization techniques and the role of the audience in interactive graphics. The question of what interactive graphics is and why they are formed is one of the issues that this research seeks to address. The main question of this article is how interactive graphics can create creative works to attract the audience through the familiarization technique? To achieve the desired goals, a qualitative research method with a descriptive-analytical nature was adopted and the studied works, which were collected through library resources, were analyzed by qualitative content analysis. The results showed that interactive graphic designers can create more creative and interactive works in the field of graphics through various methods of de- familiarization.

The Curse of the Burial Dagger Teacher Materials

The Curse of the Burial Dagger is an interactive graphic novel murder mystery, created by the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science and digital story studio Fast Familiar. Players use maths, logic and critical reasoning skills to assist Susie uncover different types of forensic evidence and weigh up contrasting hypotheses. Can they uncover the events leading up to Lord Hamilton’s death and deduce how he died…before the curse strikes again? These documents are the Teacher/Group lead pack which contain additional resources including: • The Teacher/Group Lead Pack – Teacher walk through – Factsheet – What is Forensic Science? – Factsheet – What is a hypothesis? – Marzipan Calculation – Factsheet and activity – Fingerprint Analysis – Activity – Chromatography investigation • Printable completion certificate • Printable Note paper and fact-sheet

Websites and social networks of communes in Slovakia: development and current state

One of the main features of today’s information society is the availability of data of various kinds provided by various companies and organisations. In the following paper, we focus on evaluating the dynamics of development and the current state of existence of websites of communes in Slovakia, which represent a database of their activities and serve as the main communication channel between citizens and self-government representatives. Another important channel is social networks, which are still enjoying huge popularity among Internet users. On the basis of the results of an online questionnaire that involved almost 60% of the addressed self-governments, we will point out the adaptation of self-governments to the use of social networks. One of the important tasks of such research is the distribution of the obtained results to end users. This is achieved through an example of a description of basic technical and functional specifications by using the website created by the authors. This website has the ambition of becoming a sort of central access point for all those interested in information about communes in Slovakia. By means of standard tabular, but also interactive graphic and map outputs, it gives an idea of selected indicators of self-governments in a user-friendly form, thus helping to increase client awareness of this specific issue.

The backend of news as a juxtaposition of data and human costs

Indexing and semantic code in news draw on a base of well-defined vocabulary from classification systems used by news editors for search tags, but journalism also uses leaked data, mobile metadata logs, and datasets for visualisations. The tagging systems in news, like NewsCode, are embedded in CMS and help to bind data for cross-referencing purposes. The defined concepts have an ontological base that relate to “news” and they are structured in hierarchical and logical ways. For many years social media tags were unstructured, but folksonomy approaches do not exclude semantic methods, and vice versa. Media cloud tools can also be used by journalists to generate lightly interactive graphic visualisations or to integrate data onto maps. However, data and metadata should also be used to develop new semantic systems to better protect journalists in conflict zones and to embed the values and ethics of journalism into algorithms for journalism training systems.