Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks — 4th Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2013 (http://artshumanities.netsci2013.net/)
As communication designers we are often asked to bring complex scientific issues
in the hands of non-expert stakeholders: people that are neither expert of the domain
of interest nor familiar with the very nature, the structure and the dynamics of
complexity. It’s the case of Controversy Mapping in Social Studies, where the aim is
to preserve the richness of the controversy and, at the same time, to represent it in a
understandable way for the public(s). From one side, network visualization seems to
be the natural device to put Actor-Network Theory in action; on the other, the limits
of network visualizations suddenly emerge in engaging the public: a graph can be
scary, impenetrable and repulsive. Even though the solution is not obvious, it is a
communication problem, and, as such, can be solved.
A deeper issue emerges, even with experts and highly motivated users. Network
visualizations have become a powerful conceptual and cognitive research tool for
many disciplines, including, more recently, those soft sciences that embraced digital
technologies. Digital Humanities is one of these domains trying to exploit the heuristic
potential of network visualizations, often importing and “practicing” the quantitative
methodology —network analysis— embedded in the visualization pattern. If we
accept that humanistic inquiry is based on the recognition of knowledge production
as a constructive process, where ‘making’ is a fundamental step and interpretation
—not truth— is the goal, visualization is more a matter of creation than representation;
it’s about building the pattern, not just finding it. Data and graphs are not objective
representations of pre-existing facts: they are the generative, qualitative and uncertain
processes that allow scholars to craft out novel interpretations from tacit knowledge
spaces. That is where a fruitful and tight collaboration between designers, (soft)
sciences scholars and experts may be established.
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Academic Fields Distribution and Promoters vs Opponents Networks
1. 2013, June 4th | Copenhagen
Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks
4th Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2013
Mind the Graph!
A discussion on the Design of the Network
Paolo Ciuccarelli | @pciuccarelli
DensityDesign Research Lab | @densitydesign
31. The Atlas of Kant’s Legacy
100 words, 200cm x 100cm
project by DensityDesign / Valerio Pellegrini
a (physical) cognitive interface to support humanistic inquiries
37. research activities are a specific
type of social activity that is
embedded in a wider societal
context.
“
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/
38. The important decisions which
involve scientists’ work are no
longer made by the scientific
community alone.
“
(Carrada, European Commission, 2006)
39. More and more often they are the
result of a complex negotiation
with a number of social groups.
“
(Carrada, European Commission, 2006)
60. So here is the question I wish to
raise to designers: where are the
visualization tools that allow the
contradictory and controversial
nature of matters of concern to be
represented?
“
(Latour, 2008)
62. Tourism 10%
Medicine 1,25%
Earth &
Planetary Sciences 2,25%
Environmental Science 21,25% Tourism & Management 13,75% Biology 6,25%Geography 6,25%Law 8,75%Social Science 11,25% Business & Management 6,25%Zoology 6,25% Ecology 5%
ACADEMIC
FIELDS
PARTITION
DISTRIBUTION
PROMOTERS OPPONENTS
2010
YEARS
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
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1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2008
2011
A Clarke 1
A Stronza 4
AJ Nimon 5
AM Carr 7
AN Wright 2
B Riffenburgh 5
B Stonehouse 46
C Hunter 1
D Landau 2
D Newsome 10
D Roe 2
DA Fennell 10
DJ Enzenbacher 7
DJ Telfer 5
DJ Timothy 4
E Bertram 13
E Eijgelaar 1
E Serrano 11
EJ Stewart 31
G Wall 1
HJ Lynch 4
HM Otley 6
IE Nicholson 1
J Snyder 5
J Splettstoesser 10
K Suter 3
KJ Chwedorzewska 6
KJ White 5
L Krall 1
L Sanson 1
L Tangley 3
LK Kriwoken 5
M Lamers 50
ME Johnston 6MI Ghys 4
MR McClung 1
N Wace 3
P Mason 16
PJ Beck 9
PP Wong 1
R Farreny 13
R Naveen 3
RA Herr 4
RB Powell 9
RJ Reich 2
S Pfeiffer 5
SV Levich 1
SV Scott 7
SV Shirsat 1
T Thomas 2
TG Bauer 18
V Sasidharan 1
WA Polk 3
WM Bush 3
WR Fraser 4
ML Shackley 3
DB Weaver 7
PB Davis 15
M luck 3
GR Cessford 5
D Haase 28
ND Holmes 12
CM Harris 6
CM Hall 34
RH Lemelin 12
S Muir 6
B Amelung 12
J Marquez 4
K Bastmeijer 8R Buckley 23
PT Maher 25
B Lane 11
PJ Tracey 4
C Murray 4
R Metcheva 14
K Walker 4
JS Poland 1
project by DensityDesign / Agabio, Bernardi, Panzuti, Pomè, Pontiroli
The Antarctic Cruises Controversy | Academic Authors Network
63. A Stronza 4
B Riffenburgh 5
D Newsome 10
D Roe 2
DA Fennell 10
DJ Telfer 5
DJ Timothy 4
E Bertram 13
1
EJ Stewart 31
zewska 6
LK Kriwoken 5
M Lamers 50
ohnston 6
R Farreny 13
R Naveen 3
S Pfeiffer 5
SV Scott 7
SV Shirsat 1
TG Bauer 18
DB Weaver 7
D Haase 28
ND Holmes 12
CM Hall 34
RH Lemelin 12
S Muir 6
B Amelung 12
J Marquez 4
K BastmR Buckley 23
PT Maher 25
B Lane 11
PJ Tracey 4
C Murray 4
R Metcheva 14
64. Tourism 10%
Medicine 1,25%
Earth &
Planetary Sciences 2,25%
Environmental Science 21,25% Tourism & Management 13,75% Biology 6,25%Geography 6,25%Law 8,75%Social Science 11,25% Business & Management 6,25%Zoology 6,25% Ecology 5%
ACADEMIC
FIELDS
PARTITION
DISTRIBUTION
PROMOTERS OPPONENTS
2010
YEARS
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2008
2011
A Clarke 1
A Stronza 4
AJ Nimon 5
AM Carr 7
AN Wright 2
B Riffenburgh 5
B Stonehouse 46
C Hunter 1
D Landau 2
D Newsome 10
D Roe 2
DA Fennell 10
DJ Enzenbacher 7
DJ Telfer 5
DJ Timothy 4
E Bertram 13
E Eijgelaar 1
E Serrano 11
EJ Stewart 31
G Wall 1
HJ Lynch 4
HM Otley 6
IE Nicholson 1
J Snyder 5
J Splettstoesser 10
K Suter 3
KJ Chwedorzewska 6
KJ White 5
L Krall 1
L Sanson 1
L Tangley 3
LK Kriwoken 5
M Lamers 50
ME Johnston 6MI Ghys 4
MR McClung 1
N Wace 3
P Mason 16
PJ Beck 9
PP Wong 1
R Farreny 13
R Naveen 3
RA Herr 4
RB Powell 9
RJ Reich 2
S Pfeiffer 5
SV Levich 1
SV Scott 7
SV Shirsat 1
T Thomas 2
TG Bauer 18
V Sasidharan 1
WA Polk 3
WM Bush 3
WR Fraser 4
ML Shackley 3
DB Weaver 7
PB Davis 15
M luck 3
GR Cessford 5
D Haase 28
ND Holmes 12
CM Harris 6
CM Hall 34
RH Lemelin 12
S Muir 6
B Amelung 12
J Marquez 4
K Bastmeijer 8R Buckley 23
PT Maher 25
B Lane 11
PJ Tracey 4
C Murray 4
R Metcheva 14
K Walker 4
JS Poland 1
promoters opponents
2011
1980
project by DensityDesign / Agabio, Bernardi, Panzuti, Pomè, Pontiroli
The Antarctic Cruises Controversy | Academic Authors Network
65. Tourism 10%
Medicine 1,25%
Earth &
Planetary Sciences 2,25%
Environmental Science 21,25% Tourism & Management 13,75% Biology 6,25%Geography 6,25%Law 8,75%Social Science 11,25% Business & Management 6,25%Zoology 6,25% Ecology 5%
ACADEMIC
FIELDS
PARTITION
DISTRIBUTION
PROMOTERS OPPONENTS
2010
YEARS
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2008
2011
A Clarke 1
A Stronza 4
AJ Nimon 5
AM Carr 7
AN Wright 2
B Riffenburgh 5
B Stonehouse 46
C Hunter 1
D Landau 2
D Newsome 10
D Roe 2
DA Fennell 10
DJ Enzenbacher 7
DJ Telfer 5
DJ Timothy 4
E Bertram 13
E Eijgelaar 1
E Serrano 11
EJ Stewart 31
G Wall 1
HJ Lynch 4
HM Otley 6
IE Nicholson 1
J Snyder 5
J Splettstoesser 10
K Suter 3
KJ Chwedorzewska 6
KJ White 5
L Krall 1
L Sanson 1
L Tangley 3
LK Kriwoken 5
M Lamers 50
ME Johnston 6MI Ghys 4
MR McClung 1
N Wace 3
P Mason 16
PJ Beck 9
PP Wong 1
R Farreny 13
R Naveen 3
RA Herr 4
RB Powell 9
RJ Reich 2
S Pfeiffer 5
SV Levich 1
SV Scott 7
SV Shirsat 1
T Thomas 2
TG Bauer 18
V Sasidharan 1
WA Polk 3
WM Bush 3
WR Fraser 4
ML Shackley 3
DB Weaver 7
PB Davis 15
M luck 3
GR Cessford 5
D Haase 28
ND Holmes 12
CM Harris 6
CM Hall 34
RH Lemelin 12
S Muir 6
B Amelung 12
J Marquez 4
K Bastmeijer 8R Buckley 23
PT Maher 25
B Lane 11
PJ Tracey 4
C Murray 4
R Metcheva 14
K Walker 4
JS Poland 1
project by DensityDesign / Agabio, Bernardi, Panzuti, Pomè, Pontiroli
The Antarctic Cruises Controversy | Academic Authors Network
66. Environmental Science 21,25% Tourism & Management 13,75%
ACADEMIC
FIELDS
PARTITION
DISTRIBUTION
PROMOTERS
2010
YEARS
2008
2011
BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
LAW
The Antarctic Cruises Controversy | Academic Authors Network
67. Medicine 1,25%
Earth &
Planetary Sciences 2,25%
Biology 6,25%Geography 6,25%Business & Management 6,25%Zoology 6,25% Ecology 5%
OPPONENTS
DJ Timothy 4
E Eijgelaar 1
EJ Stewart 31
M Lamers 50
M luck 3
D Haase 28
K Bastmeijer 8
R Metcheva 14
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
SOCIOLOGY
GEOGRAPHY
The Antarctic Cruises Controversy | Academic Authors Network
85. feedback (from the public)
the possibility to observe the temporal
dynamics/trends
indications or examples on how-to-use the
maps
more details and more aggregation
(zoom in and out)
86. The possibility to interact with the maps:
Filter (hide part of the information)
Rank (make part of the information more visible)
Aggregate (go from data points to categories)
Search and focus (observe specific data points and
their neighborhood)
feedback (from the public)
97. standing up on a high mountaintop
and seeing (at a glance, ed.) broad
patterns.
“
mind the graph! positive feedbacks
98. Visualization, then, doesn't only
present what we do know in a more
accessible way – it also reveals what
we don't know.
“
mind the graph! positive feedbacks
99. [...] we’ve found that visualizations
tend to provide starting points for
further inquiry, much of which is
often done the old-fashioned way: by
reading books.
“
mind the graph! positive feedbacks
100. misled by a spatialization
algorithm
mind the graph! new issues
101. an issue of visual language and
rethoric
mind the graph! new issues
102. the visual language and the rhetoric
adopted in the tool conveyed a
misleading idea of a correspondences
network during the Enlightenment as
a well-defined and clearly perceivable
phenomenon
“
(Coleman, 2010)
118. no single, predetermined, entry point to the data
perform multiple and interrelated selections
direct access to the documents ‘in any moment’
different views at the same time
knowing the amount of letters not showed in the
visualizations (ambiguity or incompleteness)
Strategy of diversification | achievements
123. […] Data are capta, taken not given,
constructed as an interpretation of
the phenomenal world, not inherent
in it.
“
(Drucker J., 2011)
the (peculiar) nature of humanistic inquiry
127. Personally, I think Digital Humanities
is about building things. If you are not
making anything, you are not…
a digital humanist
(Ramsay, 2012)
“
the (peculiar) nature of humanistic inquiry
128. Digital Humanities infrastructures
encourage prototyping, generating
new projects, beta testing them with
audiences both sympathetic and
skeptical, and then actually looking at
the results
“
(Burdick, Drucker, Lunenfeld, Presner, & Schnapp, 2012)
the (peculiar) nature of humanistic inquiry
129. from reading to making
the (peculiar) nature of humanistic inquiry
133. Early Modern Time & Networks: a Design + Humanities workshop
2012, August
Strategy of activation | learning by doing (together)
134. Early Modern Time & Networks: a Design + Humanities workshop
2012, August
Strategy of activation | learning by doing (together)
135. low level of interaction with the data and the
visualizations
pre-identication of all the nodes and the links
integrate the network with personal information
act on the visual disposition of the elements
(moving, deleting or adding nodes or links)
limits and needs emerged from the workshop
136. How can we make visualizations
function as interfaces, in an iterative
process that allows the user to
explore and tinker?
“
(Unsworth, 2005)
design challenges
139. 1. the interface as an environment for
interpretative activities
2. allowing the construction of the network
3. Exploiting the multidimensional nature of
the data
4. Understanding and revealing data sources
5. Data manipulation and enrichment
design principles
155. Process is the new god; not product.
[...] The theory after theory is anchored
in MAKING, making in the poetic
sense of poiesis, but also in the sense of
design carried out in action.
“
(Schnapp & Presner, 2009)
156. Digital humanists have much to learn
from communication and media
design ...
“
(Burdick & Willis, 2011)
157. [...] how to juxtapose and integrate words
and images, create hierarchies of reading,
forge pathways of understanding, deploy
grids and templates to best effect, and
develop navigational schemata that guide
and produce meaningful interactions
“
(Burdick & Willis, 2011)
158. ... a practice of representation, a form of modeling ...
efficient computation and human communication
(Unsworth, 2002)
... visualization, representation, visual thinking,
interface (McCarty, 2003)
... interfaces, aesthetics and usability (Kirschenbaum,
2004)
... qualitative, interpretive, experiential, emotive,
generative ... (Schnapp & Presner, 2009)
Digital Humanities vocabulary
161. bringing digital practitioners and humanities
scholars together with experts in art and design to
consider the past, present, and future of visual
epistemology in digital humanities.
“
162. learning from communication design, interaction
design and industrial design will be vital to 21st
century humanistic inquiry”
“
165. A digitization of the design process,
where interfaces become design tools
themselves, asked to perform typical
design activities
(i.e. selecting, organizing, manipulate,
modeling, representing)
“
(Caviglia, 2013)