DA BLOGOSFERA, O (RES)SENTIR OU DAS PALAVRAS ONLINE, A ARTE

Abstract

For the first time in Human history, everybodyis able to reach and share information with the whole planet,in real time. The consequent data’s abundance is global andhuge. This work aims at explore the word – as sign, mean ofexpression of the individual in society, carrying emotiveness,susceptible to analysis, visualization, (re)composition, on theonline social networking sites, at the blogosphere. Might theonline published text be today one face of the individual?Might the published data be so expressive as the one from adiary? Or so informative as news? Might they translate thefeeling of the blogosphere? As a consequence of these andothers questions, there has been developed a system whichselects, collects words from the diarist blogosphere andclassifies them in terms of valence and arousal. In the end, itgives them a significant and susceptible to aesthetic fruitionframe in a visual fluid dynamics, as fluid is the feeling of theblogosphere and the shape of its own words.