A Social Platform for Information Sonification: Many-Ears.com
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Barrass, Stephen
Schertenleib, Anton
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In this paper we describe the Many Ears project that will
develop the first example of a social site for a community of
practice in data sonification. This site will be modeled on the
Many Eyes site for “shared visualization and discovery” that
combines facilities of a social site with online tools for
graphing data. Anyone can upload a dataset, describe it and
make it available for others to visualize or download. The ease
of use of the tools and the social features on Many Eyes
have attracted a broad general audience who have produced
unexpected political, recreational, cultural and spiritual
applications that differ markedly from conventional data
analysis. The Many Ears project seeks to find out what will
happen when data sonification is made more available as a
mass medium? What new audiences will listen to sonifications?
Who will create sonifications and for whom? What unexpected
purposes will sonification be put to?
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2010-06
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