Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation
This dissertation investigates the process of curating, cleaning, visualizing, circulating, and manipulating data to understand the persuasive force of visual information in multimodal media. From the history of haptic interfaces to the data practices of social media communities across the US and Ch...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147500 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6672-9118 |
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| author | Lee, Crystal |
| author2 | Jones, Graham M. |
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| description | This dissertation investigates the process of curating, cleaning, visualizing, circulating, and manipulating data to understand the persuasive force of visual information in multimodal media. From the history of haptic interfaces to the data practices of social media communities across the US and China, this thesis uses historical and ethnographic methods to understand how users of quantitative information encode norms about gender, ability, and race in data visualizations and search interfaces. This critical scholarship complements projects with engineering colleagues at CSAIL to build more inclusive data representation systems. Drawing on work in feminist technoscience, disability studies, and the history and anthropology of computing, this dissertation weaves together different forms of HCI research to ask what work can or should be done by data representations across computational media. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1475002023-01-20T03:33:57Z Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation Lee, Crystal Jones, Graham M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society This dissertation investigates the process of curating, cleaning, visualizing, circulating, and manipulating data to understand the persuasive force of visual information in multimodal media. From the history of haptic interfaces to the data practices of social media communities across the US and China, this thesis uses historical and ethnographic methods to understand how users of quantitative information encode norms about gender, ability, and race in data visualizations and search interfaces. This critical scholarship complements projects with engineering colleagues at CSAIL to build more inclusive data representation systems. Drawing on work in feminist technoscience, disability studies, and the history and anthropology of computing, this dissertation weaves together different forms of HCI research to ask what work can or should be done by data representations across computational media. Ph.D. 2023-01-19T19:54:28Z 2023-01-19T19:54:28Z 2022-09 2022-10-04T18:42:27.191Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147500 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6672-9118 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright retained by author(s) https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| title | Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation |
| title_full | Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation |
| title_short | Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation |
| title_sort | sensory encounters in the age of computation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147500 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6672-9118 |
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