{"id":39,"date":"2025-11-04T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2025-11-10T00:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:50:06","slug":"technologies-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/technologies-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Technologies\/Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selfiecity uses a mix of&nbsp;digital tools&nbsp;to collect, process, and visualize selfies from Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key tools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Instagram API:&nbsp;Collected over&nbsp;650,000 images&nbsp;from cities around the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer vision algorithms:&nbsp;Detected faces and measured attributes like&nbsp;smiles, head tilts, and gaze.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How it works:&nbsp;The Instagram API provided raw social media data, while computer vision transformed images into&nbsp;measurable, analyzable information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other uses:&nbsp;These tools are widely used in&nbsp;digital humanities&nbsp;for tasks like analyzing art collections, studying visual trends in media, and mapping cultural patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digital humanities connection:&nbsp;Combining APIs with computational analysis allows researchers to&nbsp;turn everyday digital media into data, creating new ways to explore culture and society.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18-1024x428.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18-1024x428.png 1024w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18-768x321.png 768w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18-1536x642.png 1536w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18-2048x856.png 2048w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18-1140x477.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selfiecity uses a mix of&nbsp;digital tools&nbsp;to collect, process, and visualize selfies from Instagram. Key tools: How it works:&nbsp;The Instagram API provided raw social media data, while computer vision transformed images into&nbsp;measurable, analyzable information. Other uses:&nbsp;These tools are widely used in&nbsp;digital humanities&nbsp;for tasks like analyzing art collections, studying visual trends in media, and mapping cultural patterns. Digital humanities connection:&nbsp;Combining APIs with computational analysis allows researchers to&nbsp;turn everyday digital media into data, creating new ways to explore culture and society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWSelfieCity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}