Beautiful Data (Paperback)

Orit Halpern

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Language: English

Published by Duke University Press, North Carolina, 2015

0822357445 / 9780822357445

Series: Book 16 of 33 - Experimental Futures

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Paperback. Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption. Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Beautiful Data (Paperback)
Author
Orit Halpern
Publisher
Duke University Press, North Carolina
Publication year
2015
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0822357445
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9780822357445
Series
Book 16 of 33: Experimental Futures

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