User:Francg/expub/thesis/thesis-outline-26.10.17

Thesis Outline

26.10.17

2 options here:

1 - My thesis will work hand-on-hand with the project; investigating information overload during the sociopolitical issue between Spain and Catalonia, which sometimes exceed our capacity for processing it and understanding it. News on the web can be edited quickly as new facts arrive, meaning information is quickly updated, re-written or corrected, although sometimes its content can modified for different purposes. Online journalism often use their website as text processors for writing their first drafts, which allows them to quickly publish a story in nearly real time. It is possible that the only version of an article we ever read, gets shared across quickly, while more versions of this same article have been updated. Given such case it would be useful to be able to observe how information morphs or shifts in time to better understand them.

This large amounts of data can be communicated, reproduced, transformed and spread from all over the world, becoming available almost instantaneously. On one hand, even though this expansion and accumulation of data may be producing an abundance of knowledge, it is on the other hand also affecting our daily performance by exposing us to a lot of change in a very short time. That is to say, every user is taking part in this never-ending knowledge generating process in which digital journalism, RSS feeds, social medias and other instant messaging tools are significantly stressing up this phenomena. Currently we live in a mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education and mass entertainment society that is simultaneously functioning as a weapon for mass misinformation, ranging from useful to inaccurate or unverified content.

The thesis can be followed by collaborations from entities or figures involved in this issue; they could be essays, interviews or other sort of provided info.

2 - Thesis focus on the events of the 1st of October when a group of computer scientists or hackers made possible a registered universal census system, while struggling against power state. This research would point issues such as network censorship, online surveillance, tracking tools, cloning IPs, anonymity, freedom of speech, how a state can make Google, Amazon, Twitter or Facebook shut down applications, close websites, remove groups, etc that were meant to inform about a referendum, which regardless its non juridic validity it ended up happening.
Would it be possible to gather 7000-8000 w for this?