Visual Models and Knowledge Design for Media Studies

Drawing upon emerging practices in Digital Humanities, this research project aims to focus on visual models for the analysis of large corpora in Media Studies. Visual models differ from other types of data-based models in the way they make visible a set of relationships through a process of knowledge design (Schnapp 2014), rather than offering simulations, running tests or undertaking quantitative analysis. Starting from a corpus of television series, the final aim of the research project funded by Mitacs Globalink is to generate an open-access visualization, which will allow researchers and users to browse for information on televisual content and to better understand dynamics of circulation in the current media scenario.

Faculty Supervisor:

Marta Boni

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Partner:

Brown University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

New and Digital Media; Information and Communications Technology; Entertainment and Media

University:

Université de Montréal

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