(B8) Social Media: Tutorial With Simon & Development, Updating Brief Sheet

TALK WITH PEG:

Digital Spaces:

- Different perspectives on digital spaces
- Addressing content to bring attention to it
- Develop an object (book) that encapsulates our concept/project.

Showcasing the internet and how bonkers of a space it is is only highlighted in print, exploring the rabbit holes, complexity of the web. 

To Bring up:

1. Mark Farid's talk
   - Should this become more of a focal point?
   - Pulling out quotes to use throughout the book, as a constand narrative
   
   
2. Two sided opinions pages
   - Need to make more relevant 
   
   
3. Algorithm street view images
   - Rework the grid to allow for more overlapping of images
   - Is it too clean at the moment?
   
   
4. AI cocking up (curated images)
   - Develop a sporadic grid 
   
   
5. Geotagging fake spaces

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DEVELOPMENT:

Developing a more sporadic grid by layering initial experiments by peg

Results:

Separates these into different boxes for images to go:

Adding in imagery (visually similar to get an idea)

These are starting to directly communicate these "themes" we've been discussing. Shows tangents and going from one to the next, moving about, the layering connects well to tabs. 

The visual narrative on the page feels similar to constant searching on the internet. 
- Need to think about the content though, what would be good to use for the imagery on pages like these. 
- Could the grids be refined a little more? If so how?

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TUTORIAL WITH PEG AND SIMON:

Ethics?
- Good to be questioning it, recognise the ethics around it and discuss the mitigation, not having faces of family etc. within the content. 

The art of looking sideways (alan fletcher)
- Mindmap (ish) Showing connections between different styles in modernism, but found the style of looking disorganised but completely organised. 

Likes the sporadic layout imagery but it's missing the connections, how the images lead on to each other, or leads to a sentence, leads to a link etc.

Why a book?

Interested in seeing a visualisation of everything we're talking about which are these abstract, difficult concepts.
> Digital space - what does this mean?
> How people engage with their digital lives - intangible 

Would want to see what these look like on paper, how d you visualise it, how you do explain those experiences visually? 

Stuff with monitoring the goings on of the random instagram account is getting there, it's starting to demonstrate how we experience relationships in a digital space.
- It's anonymous but not at the same time.

Monitoring online is that we self monitor - how do we visualise this concept? In a way that isn't just representing someone's instagram. 

Google street view has a sense of monitoring and surveillance that comes along with it
- not making a new feeling, just using materials that already capture that feeling

Another aspect that needs interrogating. 

Explore the intangible with print. 

We're going too rational within the work.
People don't know what algorithms are but the know what effect they have, what does this mean in terms of individuals?

This could relate to the knowing and not knowing, how with twitter and facebook you think you know, but you don't know. All the contents being fed to someone else. 

Is there a way to present that concept of hidden/not hidden, seeing/not seeing the two sides of a complex relationship. 

Can be multifaceted, could explore different themes of how people relate to digital spaces and their digital lives, but maintaining a level of abstraction. Not super literal, not adding too much copy to explain what we're talking about. 

How do we communicate abstract notions using print? 

Think about approaching the materials metaphorically.

Once got a concept (no visual, metaphorical concept) how do we communicate that. Whatever we use will be metaphorical.

Thinking about materials in a more open way, so with text it's less about what the text says but more about the way it looks, or is laid out. 
Expressing using written words rather than visually.

Putting these together in a collage way, think about when people represent themselves online there isn't a coherence, different version on twitter, facebook, instagram.
- How to represent that? Collage.

They work together visually but aren't part of the same thing. 

Define how many aspects of digital life we want to explore.

Don't jump from one thing being very literal and the other being abstract.

Then list materials at disposal to use. 

Then work on each concept and how you can represent that visually. 

^ Give self parameters to work through.

Google maps idea was interesting as it was using one platform to represent a different platform. 

With print think about things that explain aspects of digital life but in a different context.
- Twitch with popping up bits of speech, this is then used at bus stops and doctors surgeries. 

Simon thinks it's an interesting project to work with.

Difficult concepts to work with, like digital space
- Do you define online things as a space
- Is it a place?
- Is it objective and it's there or any you inside the internet? 

Explore these ideas

Have the outcome be a piece of art almost.

Look at framework for publication and leave notes for what we're dealing with. Then bulk this out with visual ideas, then refine.

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WORKING ON IDEAS/CONCEPTS TO FOCUS ON:

Notes & Ideas:

- Only seeing one side

- Polarity

- Monitoring

- Surveillance 

- What we do vs what we see

- "What we measure affects what we do."

- Rabbit holes

- What is a digital space? 

UPDATING THE BRIEF:

After the talk with Simon it is clear that the direction of the project has drifted away from social media and more towards an investigation in documenting "digital space". Updating the brief to account for this change will provide a new sense of direction for the work and help us to stay on task when moving forward with the brief.

Thinking about the idea of polarity, showcasing two sides of something or the stark differences there can be due to social media and how it works. 

- Showing this with the reviews peggy experimented with earlier in the project but having only the contrasting words there. 

- Makes it clear and obvious there's a difference at first glance. 

^ Think more about how colour can achieve this, contrasting colours could visually represent polarity without the need for other context:

Inverting colour could do the same, showing a direct opposition:

Thinking about repelling, when things have. apolar magnetism they repel each other, how could this look visually?

^ Here with text and text wrap to have the reviews sit around the "polar" words.

Thinking about the idea of rabbit hole and "what we measure affects what we do"

- Thinking abut chain reactions

- How could this be represented in a visual sense? Using Visually similar imagery, could see if there is a change among the content, how far could it go?

Starting image:

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Placing these findings into a publication:

I think it showcases a change really well, could incorporate something into the page like a french fold so you'd only see A-Z and nothing in between until you rip it open?

- Think about playing with the physicality of the book. 

Nice because the imagery is so different, you get to see a real shift and feels connected to the internet vy this wealth of information but also completely unrelated information.