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Steering by Sight: Data, Visualization, and the Birth of an Informational Worldview
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Steering by Sight: Data, Visualization, and the Birth of an Informational Worldview. |
| 개인저자 | Campolo, Alexander . |
| 단체저자명 | New York University. Media, Culture, and Communication. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: New York University., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 364 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-03A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781088384800 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: A.
Advisor: Robles-Anderson, Erica. |
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| 요약 | During the second half of the twentieth century, scientists across disciplines faced the problem of creating knowledge from a threatening deluge of information. Steering by Sight analyzes how data visualization emerged as a response to this crisis in knowledge. While most histories of the Cold War sciences focus on militarized cybernetic rationalities, algorithmic optimization, or formal modes of objectivity, this dissertation follows a heterodox group of thinkers who instead studied limits to rationality and the inability of digital computers to solve complex problems. As an alternative, they developed techniques to approach information through visual experience. Ultimately, they sought to rethink empiricism in a world of data.This history of sense and data draws new connections between actors and institutions to offer a different perspective on the midcentury sciences and our digital present. These include Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, who developed a psychology that conceived cognition and perception in terms of information |
| 일반주제명 | Science history. Communication. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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