{"id":118,"date":"2016-05-06T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/rwaves\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:37:12","slug":"rwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/rwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"r\/Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Ainsley O&#8217;Connell<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Procedural poem &ldquo;r\/Waves&rdquo; is an invitation to experience&nbsp;Reddit as epic verse, and a reflection on the way in which we use language to form online identities and understand the stories we inhabit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis2016\/project\/ainsley-oconnell\">https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis2016\/project\/ainsley-oconnell<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-118 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/1462379433_traitWaves_small.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/1462379433_traitWaves_small-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/1462379433_traitWaves_small-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/1462379433_traitWaves_small-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/1462379433_traitWaves_small-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/1462379433_traitWaves_small.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>Known as the &#8220;homepage of the internet,&#8221; Reddit abounds in vibrant and sometimes noxious discussions on a wide range of topic-based forums, from the practical&nbsp;(&#8220;Swimming&#8221;) to the NSFW (&#8220;WaterBoobs&#8221;) and the obscure (&#8220;DarkWaterPhobia&#8221;). Through the act of&nbsp;commenting, Reddit members both&nbsp;develop&nbsp;individual&nbsp;online identities and contribute to&nbsp;a modern and still-evolving form of oral storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>In centuries past, epic poetry served a similar purpose. Taking that idea as its starting point, &#8220;r\/Waves&#8221;&nbsp;draws on two of the most famous ancient epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, in concert with Reddit, in order to explore the way in which we continue to use language to define ourselves and establish our place in the world. Water&#8211;both Homer&#039;s stage and the metaphorical stage for the internet&#039;s data &#8220;streams&#8221;&#8211;serves as the poem&#039;s backdrop. The project also furthers the literary&nbsp;tradition of&nbsp;&nbsp;re-exploring&nbsp;Homer through a contemporary perspective.<\/p>\n<p>To accomplish these goals, &#8220;r\/Waves&#8221; creates a corpus based&nbsp;on Reddit forums related to &#8220;water&#8221;, &#8220;wave&#8221;, &#8220;sea&#8221;, and &#8220;ocean&#8221;, and Homeric lines with those same words. Using a Python script, the poem places words from the corpus&nbsp;into a form text. Please see the next page for excerpts from example outputs.<\/p>\n<h3>Classes<\/h3>\n<p>Thesis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ainsley O&#8217;Connell Procedural poem &ldquo;r\/Waves&rdquo; is an invitation to experience&nbsp;Reddit as epic verse, and a reflection on the way in which we use language to form online identities and understand the stories we inhabit. https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/thesis2016\/project\/ainsley-oconnell Description Known as the &#8220;homepage of the internet,&#8221; Reddit abounds in vibrant and sometimes noxious discussions on a wide range &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/rwaves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">r\/Waves<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16193,10707,462,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ainsley-oconnell","category-katherine-dillon","category-projects","category-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}