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Phototrails<\/a> is a digital humanities project that uses millions of Instagram photos to understand different people’s social, cultural, and political activity from around the world.<\/p>\n

Description<\/h1>\n

Phototrails is a way of exploring the visual data from social media, while attempting to gain an understanding from it at the same time. It uses experimental media visualization techniques<\/a>\u00a0to explore over 2 million Instagram photos from 13 different cities<\/a>. This large number of photos can be portrayed in any size or order, such as: dates, location, visual characteristics.<\/p>\n

This image is 33,000 Instagram pictures sorted by time and hue.<\/p>\n

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Image via Phototrails project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This project was created within the last five years, given the dates on the project site. “The Aggregate Eye<\/a>” was an exhibition from October to December in 2013 as a part of the Phototrails project to generate patterns in social media user-generated photos.<\/p>\n

“The Aggregate Eye” exhibition featuring some of the Phototrails creators.<\/p>\n

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Image via Phototrails project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Project Significance<\/h1>\n

The information in this project can be a extremely useful to reference in the field of digital humanities. Phototrails overcomes the problem of a limited view of images and patterns by using their multi-scale data vision instruments. This allows the user to explore patterns across tens of thousands singular images. This information can tell a lot about the culture patterns of a certain area, which could be a great reference in any digital humanities research.<\/p>\n

This project is also apart of an emerging field of research, Cultural Analytics<\/a>. This field uses computers and digital methods of research for the analysis of massive cultural data.<\/p>\n

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Image via Phototrails project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Team<\/h1>\n

Phototrails is a collaborative project created by Navad Hochman<\/a>, Lev Manovich<\/a>, and Jay Chow<\/a>, and published by The History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh<\/a>, the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunication and Information<\/a>, and The Graduate Center, City University of New York<\/a>. The project is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.<\/p>\n

The media visualizations are all created using a free image visualization software tool called\u00a0ImagePlot<\/a>. The plot places images across a 2-Dimensional space in patterns of lines, points, and bars.<\/p>\n

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