Wrestling creatively with archival problems of the social history of slavery, Vincent Brown charts pathways for pondering history’s most painful subjects.
Vincent Brown: “Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age”
By wrestling creatively and collectively with the difficult archival problems presented by social history of slavery, Harvard’s Vincent Brown hopes to chart new pathways for pondering history’s most painful and vexing subjects.
A Glance at Graphical Abstracts
Lily Bui’s “critique of graphical abstracts through the lens of media studies along the following parameters: spreadability, legibility, and serendipity.”
Data Auralization: Different Modes of Sensing Sensor Data
Lily Bui writes, “I wanted to play with the concept of ‘mundane data’ and think about how else it could be used.”
A (Working) Typology of Sensor Journalism Projects
Lily Bui looks at sensor journalism work, teases out emergent patterns, provides perspective on the field to anticipate its future trajectory.
Vicki Mayer: “Where ‘Home’ Is: Film Production Economies and the Privatization of Space”
Vicki Mayer speaks on the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time, space and place.
Information Visualization as Creative Nonfiction
Narrative thinking as an orienting concept to support the production and evaluation of information visualizations.
