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VersuS - Rome, October 15th, the riots on social networks

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Uploaded by on Oct 16, 2011

This short video displays the activity on social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare) during the riots of October 15th which took place in Rome during the local instance of the 15th October initiative created in the planetary process started by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The peaks and contours you see represent the intensity of the communication and conversations that was taking place from the start of the protest (at 3pm local time) up until its approximate end (at 8pm local time).

The animation shows the geo-referenced intensity of messages for each 30 minute time slot from the beginning to the end of the protest.

Messages have been captured using the publicly available APIs made available by the operators of these social networks and do not represent the totality of the conversations as:

some of them were not geo-referenced
there are limits in the public APIs, which cause the loss of some messages and the need to stop the capture process every few minutes to restore the connection
Even with these limitations taken into account, a massive number of communications and conversations has been captured, processed and represented in the visualization (around 20000).

more information at:
http://www.artisopensource.net/2011/10/16/versus/

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  • Queste fluttuanti forme tridimensionali sono il respiro stesso di un avvenimento: sono state generate dal corteo degli “indignati” a Roma, i tanti pacifici e i pochi violenti, seguendoli lungo il percorso. Quello delle strade e quello dei labirinti della mente.

    Le informazioni e le conoscenze che ci scambiamo plasmano forme come queste, che si muovono tra scienza e mitopoiesi artistica generando il “neo-neorealismo”. Quello della Realtà Aumentata.

    Marco Stancati

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