Saturday, December 6, 2014

My trip to the "마을미디어 축제" at the 아리랑시네미디어센터 in 성북구, near 성신여 대.   First, the area has been subject to the same, frightening re-development strategies that have plagued other neighborhoods in Seoul:





But the idea is to create a network of local, community-based media--newspapers, film, radio broadcasts and photography.  It's an eloquent argument against  재개발, even when there's no explicit critique:






Thursday, September 4, 2014

Seoul Station (서울역) Before the Chusok Holiday

Here's a quick look at tweets that mention Seoul Station on the day before the 2014 Chusok holiday.  Lots of people are traveling, but there are also political protests going on around the plight of the families of the Sewol ship sinking.  The massive blue cluster represents tweets from those activists and politicians who wanted to remind people about the cause before they traveled to their hometowns for the holiday. 


Tuesday, September 2, 2014

광장의 이야기--Plaza Stories

A quick social graph on NodeXL using 'plaza' as a search term.  For the most part, these tweets focus on continued protests from activists organizing around the Sewol disaster. 






On the other hand, a series of tweets around the weekend "Seoul Night of Culture," an open festival of events and gallery showings that spread all over downtown Seoul, from Seodaemun to Dongdaemun.  


Well--we can see which one is larger, and even which is more connected.  But both of them overlap in space at the same time. 


Sunday, August 17, 2014

Welcome to "Tweeting Seoul". Look for research results and information from Dr. Samuel Gerald Collins.