Bill Wolff, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

viz rhet

  • mapping superbowl tweets in the nytimes

    this post has been retitled from “it’s a twitter-happy go-go springsteen nation.” Via @courtneybird who retweeted @nickbilton and an email message from my father (who refuses to Twitter but sends me all sorts of Twitter-related news articles), the New York Times has semantically and geographically represented on the continental United States an interactive tag…

  • front page coverage of Obama inauguration

    The Guardian has 49 front pages, including many from the United States. A few favorites (note the Wordle at the bottom of DeMorgen): USA Today couldn’t move it’s logo? Terrible.

  • obama address wordle: a new nation

    During Obama’s address I remarked that in just a few minutes he had subtlely but substantially rewritten, recomposed what America was for the citizens of America and the world. The Wordle of his address bears that out: