“The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 Hours in Kiev”
Abstract
“How can we use computational analysis and
visualization of content and interactions on social media network
to write histories? Traditionally, historical timelines of social and
political upheavals give us only distant views of the events, and
singular interpretation of a person constructing the timeline.
However, using social media as our source, we can potentially
present many thousands of individual views of the events. We can
also include representation of the everyday life next to the
accounts of the exceptional events. This paper explores these
ideas using a particular case study – images shared by people in
Kiev on Instagram during 2014 Ukranian Revolution. Using
Instagram public API we collected 13208 geo-coded images
shared by 6165 Instagram users in the central part of Kiev
during February 17-22, 2014. We used open source and our own
custom software tools to analyze the images along with upload
dates and times, geo locations, and tags, and visualize them in
different ways.”
Manovich, L., Tifentale, A., Yazdani, M., & Chow, J. (2014, October). The exceptional and the everyday: 144 hours in Kiev. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (pp. 72-79). IEEE.