<p>Then moving from human interpretation to software interpretation, Joca presents a software, Reading the Structure, that attempts to make visible to human readers how machines, or to be more precise, specific software implementation of text analysis, interpret texts. Computers read a text differently than we do. One of the common methods for software to analyze a text, is to cut the sentences into loose words. Then each word can be labelled for importance, sentiment, or its function in the sentence. During this process of structuring the text, the relation with the original text fades away. Reading the Structure is a reading interface that brings the labels bag in the original text. Does that makes us, mere humans, able to read like our machines do?</p>
<h3>Chapter 3 - Zalán Szakács</h3>
<em>From DIY Book Scanning to the Shadow Librarian + Encode >< Decode (working title)</em>
<em>From DIY Book Scanning to the Shadow Librarian + ACCP - Analogue Circular Communication Protocol</em>
<p>Zalán's reader, From DIY Book Scanning to the Shadow Librarian, traces back the beginnings of the shadow libraries starting from the Soviet era of Russia and explores its impact on comtemporary academic publishing. Amongst other things, the text selection Informs the reader about activists in this field such as Aaron Swartz, the writer of Guerilla Open Access Manifesto and Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Sci-Hub.</p>
<p>FIXME - I DID NOT TOUCH TO THAT AS IT SEEMED THE PROJECT WAS STILL EVOLVING A BIT?
Fascinated about alternative ways of translating text in different mediums this project explores new possibilities to encode and decode knowledge in a visual manner. Through the programming language Python and the software DrawBot the textual input is processed and mapped on a radial system. The viewer is challenged to find the coordinates for the underlining alphabetical arrangement and encode the hidden message.</p>
<p>Where does the message start? Where does the message end? The user is challenged by the coding tool ACCP to discover the rules behind the circular decoding system and decipher the message. Through the programming language Python and the software DrawBot the textual input such as words is processed and mapped into a spatial graphical system. The 26 characters of the alphabet and the 10 numbers are arranged in a radial manner around the circle. While analysing the graphs the user examines the physicality of the words and discovers hidden patterns of the content. While placing the radial stencil toolkit in front of the radial system – suddenly the message becomes decryptable. This project established from an exploration of alternative possibilities of translating textual input into different visual mediums, while keeping correlation to the original source.</p>
<h3>Chapter 4 - Natasha Berting</h3>
<em>How Bias Spreads from the Canon to the Web + Erase / Replace</em>
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