Fred Ferguson and Graffiti: Fresh Paint

Self-Expression in Spray Paint: Graffiti as a Popular Tool for Democratization in Argentina

This thesis will argue that graffiti and street art increase the democratic self-expression values that Christian Welzel’s (2008) democratization theory argues are integral to the process of democratization. In countries where a repressive authoritarian regime allows little room for the population to express themselves, graffiti and street art offer a venue for the voicing of selfexpression val...

Ferguson , Melanie A . and

Thomas Ferguson and

In the White House, among journalists, and for many political practitioners, the idea of a major “political realignment” that might dramatically reshape the face of American politics remains as tantalizing as ever. But among historians and political scientists, no one needs a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. The long-venerated “realignment” approach to election analysis develop...

Graffiti Server — Design and Implementation

While data on file systems and data on the Web have traditionally been organized in a hierarchical structure, tagging has emerged as a viable technology for dealing with large collections of data. Tagging involves attaching descriptive keywords to data objects such as files and URLs. Most current implementations of tagging restrict the scope of tags to the website or application in which they w...

When Graffiti Brings Order

Most researchers use Petri nets as a formal notation with mathematically defined semantics. Their graphical part is usually only seen as a notation, that does not carry semantics. Contrary to this tradition, we show in this article that, when created by a human, there is inherent semantics in the positions of places, transitions and arcs. We propose to use the full definition of Petri nets: whe...