{"product_id":"visualization-and-interpretation-isbn-9780262044738","title":"Visualization and Interpretation","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn analysis of visual epistemology in the digital humanities, with attention to the need for interpretive digital tools within humanities contexts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the several decades since humanists have taken up computational tools, they have borrowed many techniques from other fields, including visualization methods to create charts, graphs, diagrams, maps, and other graphic displays of information. But are these visualizations actually adequate for the interpretive approach that distinguishes much of the work in the humanities? Information visualization, as practiced today, lacks the interpretive frameworks required for humanities-oriented methodologies. In this book, Johanna Drucker continues her interrogation of visual epistemology in the digital humanities, reorienting the creation of digital tools within humanities contexts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrucker examines various theoretical understandings of visual images and their relation to knowledge and how the specifics of the graphical are to be engaged directly as a primary means of knowledge production for digital humanities. She draws on work from aesthetics, critical theory, and formal study of graphical systems, addressing them within the specific framework of computational and digital activity as they apply to digital humanities. Finally, she presents a series of standard problems in visualization for the humanities (including time\/temporality, space\/spatial relations, and data analysis), posing the investigation in terms of innovative graphical systems informed by probabilistic critical hermeneutics. She concludes with a final brief sketch of discovery tools as an additional interface into which modeling can be worked.\u003c\/p\u003eFramework: Creating the Right Tools and Platforms\u003cbr\u003e1. Visual Knowledge (or Graphesis): Is Drawing as Powerful as Computation?\u003cbr\u003e2. Interpretation as Probabilistic: Showing How a Text is Made by Reading\u003cbr\u003e3. Graphic Arguments: Nonrepresentational Approaches to Modelling Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e4. Interface and Enuncition, or, Who Is Speaking?\u003cbr\u003e5. The Projects in Modeling Interpretation, or, Can We Make Arguments Visually?\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Design Concepts and Prototypes\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex“Graphs, charts and maps are often considered to be objective expressions of facts. But the fact is that they are complex \u003ci\u003etexts\u003c\/i\u003e, demanding interpretation. That is why this is an important book, building a solid bridge between the evolving field of data visualization and the long humanistic tradition of critical interpretation.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Martin Engebretsen, Professor in the Department of Nordic and Media Studies at the University of Agder; coeditor of \u003ci\u003eData Visualization in Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “How can the humanities benefit from information visualization and how can visualization be more suited to the purposes of the humanities? Johanna Drucker expertly confronts these questions in her excellent new book \u003ci\u003eVisualization and Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e. Ultimately, this timely and welcome book is about making visualization more human.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield; coeditor of \u003ci\u003eData Visualization in Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Drucker's new book is a very important and truly original contribution to digital humanities, data visualization, and data science fields. She develops a new paradigm for thinking about relations between cultural artifacts, knowledge, interpretation, data and visualization. The ideas presented in this book will change how we think about culture, data and display and the book itself will remain the key reference in decades to come.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Lev Manovich, Presidential Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Language of New Media\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCultural Analytics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJohanna Drucker, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic, is Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305070153957,"sku":"NP9780262044738","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262044738.jpg?v=1767743494","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/visualization-and-interpretation-isbn-9780262044738","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}