Data Visualization in Society.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Engebretsen, Martin.
Other Authors: Kennedy, Helen.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: The dawn of a philosophy of visualization -- 1. Introduction : The relationships between graphs, charts, maps and meanings, feelings, engagements -- Section I. Framing data visualization -- 2. Ways of knowing with data visualizations -- 3. Inventorizing, situating, transforming : Social semiotics and data visualization -- 4. The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives 4. The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives -- Section II. Living and working with data visualization -- 5. Rain on your radar : Engaging with weather data visualizations as part of everyday routines -- 6. Between automation and interpretation : Using data visualization in social media analytics companies -- 7. Accessibility of data visualizations : An overview of European statistics institutes -- 8. Evaluating data visualization : Broadening the measurements of success -- 9. Approaching data visualizations as interfaces : An empirical demonstration of how data are imag(in)ed -- 10. Visualizing data: A lived experience -- 11. Data visualization and transparency in the news -- Section III. Data visualization, learning, and literacy -- 12. What is visual-numeric literacy, and how does it work? -- 13. Data visualization literacy: A feminist starting point -- 14. Is literacy what we need in an unequal data society? -- 15. Multimodal academic argument in data visualization -- Section IV. Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics -- 16. What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations -- 17. A multimodal perspective on data visualization -- 18. Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism -- 19. The data epic : Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance. 
505 8 |a 20. What a line can say : Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations -- 21. Humanizing data through 'data comics' : An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science -- Section V. Data visualization and inequalities -- 22. Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies -- 23. What is at stake in data visualization? A feminist critique of the rhetorical power of data visualizations in the media -- 24. The power of visualization choices: Different images of patterns in space -- 25. Making visible politically masked risks : Inspecting unconventional data visualization of the Southeast Asian haze -- 26. How interactive maps mobilize people in geoactivism -- Index. 
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