Data Visualization in Society.

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2020.
Ã2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.