From 8005d3a83381bfb9418ef3fa092cf50bd20d6c11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rita Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:59:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Upload files to '' --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d0d1b89 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# Scraping Tools + +The Network We de(Served) is a research project that encompasses a collection of hybrid publications, printed and online. The central point of research departed from the process of self-hosting as a community, where we expanded our understandings of networks, autonomy, online publishing and social infrastructures. These understandings are twofold, both on networking's technics and social relevancies. + +My role in the project included researching, designing and programming one of the online and printed publications, where I prototyped scraping tools to display the fragments of our intermittent network, reflecting on the ephemeral aspect of the web. + +These small scripts are written in Python and are based on web scraping methods. Web scraping is the process of gathering data, in this case, through automated actions. During this project, I was using these tools to crawl information from our network: images, the status of links, names of pages. By exploring and using this content I was hoping to overview the success or failure of our pages. The fragility of the network, but also the ability to grow and to discover new connections, really relates to our learning process throughout this research.