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Calvillo, Nerea (2019) Digital visualizations for thinking with the environment. In: Vertesi, Janet and Ribes, David, (eds.) digitalSTS : A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 61-75. ISBN 9780691187075
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Abstract
Visualizations have been an ongoing object of research within STS. More recently, digital visualizations have become a research method, as in the cases of controversy or issue mapping. Yet generally little attention is paid to the capacities of visualizations in their actual making. Through examination of a practice-based research project on the visualization of air pollutants in Madrid, it can be argued that the design and production of digital visualizations can be framed as a non-representational research method, as well as a means to explore STS topics. On the one hand, during the production of the visualization, the socio-technical assemblage of air pollutants emerges, and therefore its networks and power relations can be accounted for. On the other, their making is a means to interfere in the world. This interference is analyzed by looking at the realms that the making of the visualization brings together, such as environmental research, media art, or collaborative production. Also, through the design decisions, alternative and speculative landscapes of pollution can be formulated, which call for other imaginaries and practices to engage with air pollution.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NA Architecture |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||
Publisher: | Princeton University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Princeton | ||||
ISBN: | 9780691187075 | ||||
Book Title: | digitalSTS : A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies | ||||
Editor: | Vertesi, Janet and Ribes, David | ||||
Official Date: | April 2019 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 560 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 61-75 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 January 2019 | ||||
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