How Do You

• PostModernNews searches twitter.
• PostModernNews deconstructs a collection of documents (messages) into a bag-of-words, replacing syntax with a graphic re-arrangement of terms that the reader must re-associate to assert meaning.

The gentle reader can select two routes to retrieve the news.

• Enter search terms directly in the box labeled Deconstruct twitter and click the search button.
• Click on a link in one of the expandable categories: Trends, Celebrities, Editorial, etc.

Both methods move the viewer to the download page where the status of your request is displayed. (Be patient!) When processing is finished the viewer is moved to the final Active-GalaXy page.

PostModernNews is interactive. The Active-GalaXy page displays a bag-of-words and an image that clusters the documents through the use of links and boundaries. Relationships between terms will be found in several ways:

• Some relationships are drawn.
• Others are implied with boundaries, solid or porous.
• Many only appear when queried with the cursor.

This screen shot shows one corner of an Active-GalaXy page created from a set of British news headlines. By holding the cursor over the word climate or over the region of the image with the labels Climate or #climate the co-occurring words obama, copenhagen, world and others will be highlighted. (Can you make a sentence from these words, thus reconstructing and asserting meaning?)

The Google Ads provide a search to commercially related sites. Or not.

Double-clicking on the word climate or the corresponding region of the image will create a list of documents (messages) similar to the one below. Clicking on any orange square will display that complete document.

The menu on the left-hand side is shown in its expanded form below. The sub-menus work as follows:

• The Previous and Next items will navigate to the results of identical searches that either preceded or follow the current search if such exist. (Some browsers have trouble with these buttons.)
• The Instruction item brings up a simple set of instructions.
• The final item is a link to the main PostModernNews page. (Different browers give different results when trying to navigate back from the Active-GalaXy page. Internet Explorer is best.)