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| NewspaperBox presents a possible visual model for representing the collective use of a website in its form. Internet and cyberspace has been mainly defined through its utopian futures, and revolutionary anticipations. Under these views lies, our misconception of technological tools and deference to already dominant structures. States, mass media and corporations have come to define how we experience and use Internet in the control societies we live in. Databases and codes regulate user relations with and among this space and define the internal limitations of Internet as a recording medium. Through articulating a space-time for computer mediated communication to occur, this platform proposes an experience of cyberspace as a reconstructive process among users. | In NewspaperBox users’ subjective interaction of reading a text is transformed into a visual challenge in order to collect more sufficient data regarding the reading activity. Once the user enters the site he/she is confronted with the whole set of information available for his/her choosing. In order to start reading an article, a user has to go through simple sets of interactive activities such as stretching and dragging box content, which enables us to collect data on how much of the content was so presumably read by the user. Then the amount of reading and time spent within the activity is supplied back to the existing database as add-on information. | |||
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