This paper describes an ongoing project to enable user-editing on an existing online database of about 120,000 British newspaper cartoons at the University of Kent. It describes the cartoon catalogue itself and then describes how the online search website has been extended to allow users to edit catalogue records in a way that should be both safe and economical. Finally, it discusses the next s...

This paper offers an approach to the figure and work of cartoonist Francisco Ugalde Pardo (Tarazona, Zaragoza, 1901–Madrid, 1978). Specifically, focus is on his collaboration as a graphic artist for Zaragoza-based newspaper Heraldo de Aragón (1925-1928), which had significant number readers. In February 1929, he moved Madrid join ABC newspaper—and other publications—where developed style achiev...

W oter an Att eeldt Wouter van Atteveldt http://vanatteveldt.com http://content-analysis.org Semantic Network Analysis is a technique in which the content of a message (such as a newspaper article) is extracted from text and represented as a network of semantic relations between actors and issues, which can be queried to look for specific patterns and answer various research questions. This tec...

Since their appearance, cartoons and their creators took interest in social and political facts and figures. Often a more direct witness than a text, cartoons were quickly transformed from their initial entertaining role, to a tool to attack oppressors and reveal social injustices. To easily communicate with their public, they had to share the same codes and experiences that lived their audienc...

The notable developments in pervasive and wireless technology enable us to collect enormous sensor data from each individual. With contextaware technologies, these data can be summarized into context data which support each individual’s reflection process of one’s own memory and communication process between the individuals. To improve reflection and communication, this paper proposes an automa...

The aim of the current study is to examine the influence of the victim's, perpetrator's, and participant's ethnicity on victim and perpetrator blame attributions. Additionally, comparisons between males and females and a community and student sample were made. Participants read a rape vignette in the form of a newspaper article and subsequently attributed victim and perpetrator blame. A 2 (vict...