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Graffiti analysis part 1: Arizona State University

Saturday, December 4, 2010

This is the first in a five-part series of posts describing the results of my analysis of my graffiti corpora. I strongly recommend you read “Prelude to a graffiti analysis” first to understand the methodology, data, and sampling. Located in a college town that seems to have neither a coffee house nor a bookstore (and [...]

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Prelude to a graffiti analysis: data, methodology, sampling

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Over the next six weeks, I’ll be posting a set of results from my recent graffiti analysis, done with some degree of seriousness this time. The last time I put together a (tongue-in-cheek) analysis of the data, it was a smash hit that got the attention of Slashdot, the Wall Street Journal tech blog, and [...]

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Arizona State University: where literacy comes to die

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Recent works of fiction, including Neal Stephenson’s Anathem and Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, depict a future where traditional literacy has become a niche skill, and the general populace relies on simple symbols for written communication. An examination of the graffiti of Hayden Library at Arizona State University leaves one with the impression that such a scenario [...]

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