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Author:   Martin Engebretsen ,  Helen Kennedy ,  Jill Walker ,  Giorgia Aiello
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Edition:   0
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9789463722902

ISBN 10:   9463722904
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   16 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of tables List of figures Acknowledgements Foreword 1 Introduction: The relationships between graphs, charts, maps and meanings, feelings, engagements Helen Kennedy and Martin Engebretsen Section I: Framing data visualization 2 Ways of knowing with data visualizations Jill Walker Rettberg 3 Inventorizing, situating, transforming: Social semiotics and data visualization Giorgia Aiello 4 The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives Torgeir Uberg Nærland Section II: Living and working with data visualization 5 Rain on your radar: Engaging with weather data visualizations as part of everyday routines Eef Masson and Karin van Es 6 Between automation and interpretation: Using data visualization in social media analytics companies Salla-Maaria Laaksonen and Juho Pääkkönen 7 Accessibility of data visualizations: An overview of European statistics institutes Mikael Snaprud and Andrea Velazquez 8 Evaluating data visualization: Broadening the measurements of success Arran L. Ridley and Christopher Birchall 9 Approaching data visualizations as interfaces: An empirical demonstration of how data are imag(in)ed Daniela van Geenen and Maranke Wieringa 10 Visualizing data: A lived experience Jill Simpson 11 Data visualization and transparency in the news Helen Kennedy, Wibke Weber and Martin Engebretsen Section III: Data visualization, learning and literacy 12 What is visual-numeric literacy, and how does it work? Elise Seip Tønnessen 13 Data visualization literacy: A feminist starting point Catherine D'Ignazio and Rahul Bhargava 14 Is literacy what we need in an unequal data society? Lulu Pinney 15 Multimodal academic argument in data visualization Arlene Archer and Travis Noakes Section IV: Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics 16 What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations Sara Brinch 17 A multimodal perspective on data visualization Tuomo Hiippala 18 Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism Wibke Weber 19 The data epic: Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance Jonathan Gray 20 What a line can say: Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations Verena Elisabeth Lechner 21 Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science Aria Alamalhodaei, Alexandra Alberda & Anna Feigenbaum Section V: Data visualization and inequalities 22 Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies John P. Wihbey, Sarah J. Jackson, Pedro M. Cruz, Brooke Foucault Welles 23 What is at stake in data visualization? A feminist critique of the rhetorical power of data visualizations in the media Rosemary Lucy Hill 24 The power of visualization choices: Different images of patterns in space Britta Ricker, Menno-Jan Kraak & Yuri Engelhardt 25 Making visible politically masked risks: Inspecting unconventional data visualization of the Southeast Asian haze Anna Berti Suman 26 How interactive maps mobilize people in geoactivism Miren Gutiérrez Index

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The chapters in this expertly edited volume make a crucial contribution to critical studies in the area of data visualization. Focused on a broad range of topics including activism, literacy, accessibility, social disparity, gender politics, and professional practices, the papers demonstrate in case after case the rhetorical power of visualizations and the need to engage critically with that power.[-][-]Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor and Distinguished Professor of Information Studies, UCLA[-][-][-]This book offers unique and much needed perspectives on data visualization culture. While most books still approach the subject in a practical how to way, Data Visualization In Society offers a range of critical reflections on key social and culture dimensions of visualization culture. This is the book we have been waiting for.[-][-]Lev Manovich, Professor of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York & Director, Cultural Analytics Lab[-]

"""This book is a good resource for those wanting to study data visualisation in relation to social semiotics and epistemology as the methodologies and frameworks provided by the authors are well thought out and effective lenses for studying data visualisation. [...] This book has achieved its aims of solidifying, as well as inspiring, continuing discourse on the topic of data visualisation and society."" - Miriam McBride, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 70:1 (2021) ""The chapters in this expertly edited volume make a crucial contribution to critical studies in the area of data visualization. Focused on a broad range of topics including activism, literacy, accessibility, social disparity, gender politics, and professional practices, the papers demonstrate in case after case the rhetorical power of visualizations and the need to engage critically with that power."" - Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor and Distinguished Professor of Information Studies, UCLA ""This book offers unique and much needed perspectives on data visualization culture. While most books still approach the subject in a practical ""how to"" way, Data Visualization in Society offers a range of critical reflections on key social and culture dimensions of visualization culture. This is the book we have been waiting for."" - Lev Manovich, Professor of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York & Director, Cultural Analytics Lab"

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Martin Engebretsen is Professor of Language and Communication at University of Agder and director of the INDVIL project (indvil.org), which provides the inspiration for this book. Helen Kennedy is Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield. Her research traverses digital landscapes. She is especially interested in the datafication of everyday life.

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