This article explores the concept of literacy related to the use of data visualizations. Literacy is here understood as the ability to make sense from semiotic resources in an educational context. Theoretically the discussion is based in social semiotic theory on multimodality in the tradition of New Literacy Studies. Empirical examples are taken from observations in two Social Science classrooms in upper secondary school in Norway, where the students work with publicly available data visualizations to answer tasks designed by their teacher. The discussion sums up factors that affect reading and learning from such complex resources: taking time to explore axis system, variables, and digitally available options; questioning data; and contextualizing results.
{"title":"What is visual-numeric literacy, and how does it work?","authors":"Elise Seip Tønnessen","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.18","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the concept of literacy related to the use of data visualizations. Literacy is here understood as the ability to make sense from semiotic resources in an educational context. Theoretically the discussion is based in social semiotic theory on multimodality in the tradition of New Literacy Studies. Empirical examples are taken from observations in two Social Science classrooms in upper secondary school in Norway, where the students work with publicly available data visualizations to answer tasks designed by their teacher. The discussion sums up factors that affect reading and learning from such complex resources: taking time to explore axis system, variables, and digitally available options; questioning data; and contextualizing results.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"430 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126098454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thus far little has been said about how maps are employed in activism to unleash sentiments. Employing as a lens the emotional turn currently influencing geography, this article looks at a 15M map, a cartographic animation that shows a ‘connected multitude’ of indignad@s as they demonstrated in Spain in 2011; the ‘Left-to-die boat’ map, tracing the course of a ship in which 63 refugees lost their lives; and the ‘Western Africa missing fish’ map, which shows foreign fishing vessels operating irregularly in African waters. Interviews, fieldwork, and participatory observation are employed to understand how maps are designed to activate people through emotions. Based on DeSoto (2014) and Muehlenhaus (2013), the chapter also offers a taxonomy as a heuristic tool.
{"title":"How interactive maps mobilize people in geoactivism","authors":"Miren Gutiérrez","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.32","url":null,"abstract":"Thus far little has been said about how maps are employed in activism\u0000 to unleash sentiments. Employing as a lens the emotional turn currently\u0000 influencing geography, this article looks at a 15M map, a cartographic\u0000 animation that shows a ‘connected multitude’ of indignad@s as they\u0000 demonstrated in Spain in 2011; the ‘Left-to-die boat’ map, tracing the\u0000 course of a ship in which 63 refugees lost their lives; and the ‘Western\u0000 Africa missing fish’ map, which shows foreign fishing vessels operating\u0000 irregularly in African waters. Interviews, fieldwork, and participatory\u0000 observation are employed to understand how maps are designed to activate\u0000 people through emotions. Based on DeSoto (2014) and Muehlenhaus (2013),\u0000 the chapter also offers a taxonomy as a heuristic tool.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115180410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter discusses visualizations of weather data, used to communicate short-term precipitation predictions to lay audiences. Focusing on the example of Buienradar, a popular Dutch weather forecast website and app, it investigates how people engage with such representations on a daily basis, how they interpret them, and how their readings of them affect their actions and decisions, shaping their day-to-day routines. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with users with different demographic profiles. Aside from establishing usage patterns or preferences and readerly strategies, the chapter also considers people’s own evaluations of their conduct in relation to the Buienradar service, and more broadly, their reflections on the significance of weather data visualizations to their lives.
{"title":"Rain on your radar:","authors":"E. Masson, K. Es","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.11","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses visualizations of weather data, used to communicate short-term precipitation predictions to lay audiences. Focusing on the example of Buienradar, a popular Dutch weather forecast website and app, it investigates how people engage with such representations on a daily basis, how they interpret them, and how their readings of them affect their actions and decisions, shaping their day-to-day routines. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with users with different demographic profiles. Aside from establishing usage patterns or preferences and readerly strategies, the chapter also considers people’s own evaluations of their conduct in relation to the Buienradar service, and more broadly, their reflections on the significance of weather data visualizations to their lives.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"67 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124814396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between automation and interpretation:","authors":"Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Juho Pääkkönen","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125909151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-16DOI: 10.5117/9789463722902_ch23
R. Hill
Data visualizations are powerful semiotic resources, which, it is sometimes claimed, have the power to change the world. This chapter argues that to understand this power we need to consider the uses to which visualizations have been put. Using visualizations relating to abortion as a case study alongside Klein and D’Ignazio’s notion of a ‘Bring Back the Bodies’ in data visualization, I argue that visualizations tell a narrow story, removing contextual detail and omitting to ask questions important to women’s health. To grasp the significance of this I propose a new body issue: the neglect of the viewer and those affected by decisions taken based on visualized data. Far from being a simple device to graphically display numerical data, therefore, there are important social and ethical issues at stake in data visualization.
{"title":"What is at stake in data visualization? A feminist critique of the rhetorical power of data visualizations in the media","authors":"R. Hill","doi":"10.5117/9789463722902_ch23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463722902_ch23","url":null,"abstract":"Data visualizations are powerful semiotic resources, which, it is sometimes\u0000 claimed, have the power to change the world. This chapter argues that to\u0000 understand this power we need to consider the uses to which visualizations\u0000 have been put. Using visualizations relating to abortion as a case study\u0000 alongside Klein and D’Ignazio’s notion of a ‘Bring Back the Bodies’ in data\u0000 visualization, I argue that visualizations tell a narrow story, removing\u0000 contextual detail and omitting to ask questions important to women’s\u0000 health. To grasp the significance of this I propose a new body issue: the\u0000 neglect of the viewer and those affected by decisions taken based on\u0000 visualized data. Far from being a simple device to graphically display\u0000 numerical data, therefore, there are important social and ethical issues\u0000 at stake in data visualization.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121338146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accessibility of data visualizations:","authors":"M. Snaprud, Andrea Velazquez","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126402202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-16DOI: 10.5117/9789463722902_CH17
Tuomo Hiippala
This chapter discusses the multimodality of data visualizations, that is, how they combine multiple modes of expression, such as written language, photographs, diagrammatic elements, and illustrations, in various printed and digital media. Because the medium in which a data visualization is presented determines the modes of expression available, the chapter shows how different media can be pulled apart for multimodal analysis. The proposed approach is illustrated by analysing static information graphics, non-interactive, and interactive dynamic data visualizations.
{"title":"A multimodal perspective on data visualization","authors":"Tuomo Hiippala","doi":"10.5117/9789463722902_CH17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463722902_CH17","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the multimodality of data visualizations, that is, how they combine multiple modes of expression, such as written language, photographs, diagrammatic elements, and illustrations, in various printed and digital media. Because the medium in which a data visualization is presented determines the modes of expression available, the chapter shows how different media can be pulled apart for multimodal analysis. The proposed approach is illustrated by analysing static information graphics, non-interactive, and interactive dynamic data visualizations.","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126862486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Wihbey, Sarah J. Jackson, P. M. Cruz, B. F. Welles
{"title":"Visualizing diversity:","authors":"John Wihbey, Sarah J. Jackson, P. M. Cruz, B. F. Welles","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437386,"journal":{"name":"Data Visualization in Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132144327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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