what is specific to many eyes?

Its purpose is to create different types of visualization (different ways of presenting data and the possibility of uploading data). This variety enables the same data to be interpreted in diverse ways, therefore implying that presentation has an influence over interpretation.

Since politics and crime-related issues are predominant it may also have a role in raising political awareness and in public opinion formation.

In addition, the ability to reconfigurate other visualizations appeals to creativity.

Through these kinds of tools we call become producers of images, making text and figures more dynamic and alive.

Oddly, what is called visual here is not connected to iconographic image.

Why is many-eyes a social software?

It has comments, hyperlinks, connections to other types of social software (blogs, for example) and its content depends exclusively on the contributions of the users.

The most popular topics

Politics, mostly in the US
Crime in the US
Popular culture
Education
Religion
Litterature

exemplo

food for thought

What forms of immaterial labour are occuring in many eyes?
Two dimensions:
1) understood as working with information technologies;
2) as practices of the self

2 Many Eyes Project

This is a research project on social software, integrated in the PhD Workshop Researching Social Software, at University of Minho.

Our case study is "Many Eyes": www.many-eyes.com.

Here we will post our findings and discuss our views.

Let's social work!