Author: Jack Brighton

I am a long-time multimedia producer at Illinois Public Media at the University of Illinois. When the Mosaic web browser was developed about three blocks from my office in Urbana, I decided to see how this internet thing might turn out. After initial optimism and years of building websites for public media and education, I have concerns. My work in journalism, technology, and information design continues as a PhD student at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences.

Social Media Data Collection, Processing, and Use in Research, Marketing, and Political Communication

I've been spending time learning Python since January, and it's creating new problems. For example, suddenly I want to do things with Python. I want to write a program to process titles and filenames of media archives records from an Excel spreadsheet, and find the matching media files which are stored on a network drive. I need to read a few thousand PBCore XML records and convert them to JSON. I want to take the JSON output from Google Speech-to-Text transcripts, and convert it to WebVTT files. But I can take on just one project right now, and here it is.