Data Visualization in Society

Martin Engebretsen is Professor of Language and Communication at University of Agder and director of the INDVIL project (indvil.org), which provides the inspiration for this book. Helen Kennedy is Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield. Her research traverses digital landscapes. She is especially interested in the datafication of everyday life.

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List of figures
Acknowledgements
Foreword

1 Introduction: The relationships between graphs, charts, maps and meanings, feelings, engagements
Helen Kennedy and Martin Engebretsen

Section I: Framing data visualization

2 Ways of knowing with data visualizations
Jill Walker Rettberg
3 Inventorizing, situating, transforming: Social semiotics and data visualization
Giorgia Aiello
4 The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives
Torgeir Uberg Nærland

Section II: Living and working with data visualization

5 Rain on your radar: Engaging with weather data visualizations as part of everyday routines
Eef Masson and Karin van Es
6 Between automation and interpretation: Using data visualization in social media analytics companies
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen and Juho Pääkkönen
7 Accessibility of data visualizations: An overview of European statistics institutes
Mikael Snaprud and Andrea Velazquez
8 Evaluating data visualization: Broadening the measurements of success
Arran L. Ridley and Christopher Birchall
9 Approaching data visualizations as interfaces: An empirical demonstration of how data are imag(in)ed
Daniela van Geenen and Maranke Wieringa
10 Visualizing data: A lived experience
Jill Simpson
11 Data visualization and transparency in the news
Helen Kennedy, Wibke Weber and Martin Engebretsen

Section III: Data visualization, learning and literacy

12 What is visual-numeric literacy, and how does it work?
Elise Seip Tønnessen
13 Data visualization literacy: A feminist starting point
Catherine D'Ignazio and Rahul Bhargava
14 Is literacy what we need in an unequal data society?
Lulu Pinney
15 Multimodal academic argument in data visualization
Arlene Archer and Travis Noakes

Section IV: Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics

16 What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations
Sara Brinch
17 A multimodal perspective on data visualization
Tuomo Hiippala
18 Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism
Wibke Weber
19 The data epic: Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance
Jonathan Gray
20 What a line can say: Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations
Verena Elisabeth Lechner
21 Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science
Aria Alamalhodaei, Alexandra Alberda & Anna Feigenbaum

Section V: Data visualization and inequalities

22 Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies
John P. Wihbey, Sarah J. Jackson, Pedro M. Cruz, Brooke Foucault Welles
23 What is at stake in data visualization? A feminist critique of the rhetorical power of data visualizations in the media
Rosemary Lucy Hill
24 The power of visualization choices: Different images of patterns in space
Britta Ricker, Menno-Jan Kraak & Yuri Engelhardt
25 Making visible politically masked risks: Inspecting unconventional data visualization of the Southeast Asian haze
Anna Berti Suman
26 How interactive maps mobilize people in geoactivism
Miren Gutiérrez

Index