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We are so excited to share that our latest special issue, "Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities" is now available.
| Claudia, John, Pam, and Nickoal
| | Digital Humanities Librarian | | Digital Humanities Librarian | | Associate Professor, Digital Humanities Librarian | San Diego State University
| | Associate Professor, Digital Scholarship Librarian | | | |
Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities Special Issue | | | | |
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Play With Your Data (printable zine) | Play With Your Data on Humanities Commons
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Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities | This special issue of dh+lib introduces our readers to how digital humanities can integrate data physicalization into the research process and how data physicalization is a form of critical making. Seven case studies are presented here, ranging from how we can use data physicalization to teach digital methods to how data physicalization can aid in the creation of research objects. ...
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Emotional Bookmarks: Data Physicalization and the Language of Literature | | |
Color has long had a deep connection to our emotions, which cuts through different cultures, time periods, and contexts, from textiles and architecture to design and art. Goethe was the first Western color theorist to suggest that colors have a direct effect on our physical and psychological wellbeing. Writing in his book, Theory of Colours, he argues, "yellow excites a ...
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Black Ribbon for Mourning: Affective Solidarity and Feeling Very Difficult Data | | |
The following recipe focuses on using data visceralization to engage very difficult data, with an emphasis on what feeling the data can do (as opposed to seeing it), and strategies for contextualizing the data and its effects. There is a particular subset of visualization-based data science known as Quantified Self. The Quantified Self (QS) movement relies heavily on wearable technologies, ...
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Book Adjacent: Database & Makerspace Prototypes Repairing Book-Centric Citation Bias in DH Working Libraries | | |
My digital humanities center recently returned to a renovated library building with a dedicated public area. Our pre-renovation space included semi-public shelves full of DH-relevant books, but by 2019 thirteen years of book accrual meant our specialized reference collection needed significant curation. Some of the most appreciated books weren't making it back to us, and other books were outdated in ...
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Weaving as Coding: Complexity and Nostalgia | | |
For readers unfamiliar with the process of weaving, terms that first appear below in bold typeface are explained in the Weaving primer/glossary section between the Footnotes and Recipe. I first faced a loom in summer 2017 at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft, during their Open Studio Residency, just before leaving. I went to Haystack only planning to work in ...
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Knot Hard: Accessible Textile Data Visualization with a Circular Knitting Machine | "That is such a cool idea, but I'm not crafty at all." I hear this a lot when I mention that I run a Textile Makerspace, and teach Data Visualization with Textiles. It's easy to see where people are coming from: temperature blankets, covid scarves, quilted topographic maps, embroidered Greek epic poetry -- the data visualizations with textiles that have ...
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Off the Wheel and Off the Rails: When Making and Teaching Go Wrong | | |
An aspect of making and crafting I considered when invited to contribute to this special issue on physical data visualization is the possibility of confronting failure, especially the failure in the make, and the outcome possibly going very wrong. To be able to learn and grow as a crafter and data viz creator is to make many failed attempts before ...
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Developing a Creative Practice with Ceramic Data Physicalizations | | |
Introduction Over the past year I have been researching and crafting a data physicalization piece titled Me & You, 2024 (porcelain and thread, Figure 1). The resulting piece maps the physical locations of three significant people in my life in relation to where I lived at the time. Thread was weaved in between the shapes starting at the time we ...
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