scholarly journals Designing with Publics that Are Already Busy: A Case from Denmark

Design Issues ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-20
Author(s):  
Andreas Birkbak ◽  
Morten Krogh Petersen ◽  
Tobias Bornakke Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Recent Attempt ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
Design Workshop ◽  
Design Objects

Design research has recently turned the attention to how designers contribute to the organization of publics when designing objects. This also raises the question of what kind of “good” public is being pursued. In this article, we argue for the importance of taking pre-existing normative projects into account to avoid approaching publics as yet another instantiation of “users” of design objects. We develop the argument by discussing our recent attempt at designing an online data visualization tool for public use. Instead of inviting potential future users of our tool to a design workshop, we decided to adopt an ethnographic interest in the existing “goods” that guided the publics for which we wanted to design. Based on explorations of three sites, we found our publics to be already busy with concerns that were both highly relevant to the data practices we were trying to facilitate, while at the same time overflowing and provoking our framing of the publics we were attempting to engage. Drawing from work in Science and Technology Studies on multiple ways of “doing good” in practice, we propose a reconsideration in design of the publics that we hope to “spark into being,” by pursuing the question of how to design with rather than for publics that are already busy.

scholarly journals A Transcriptional Lineage of the Early C. elegans Embryo

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia C. Tintori ◽  
Erin Osborne Nishimura ◽  
Patrick Golden ◽  
Jason D. Lieb ◽  
Bob Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Single Cell ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Cell Lineage ◽  
List Type ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
Rna Seq ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Cell Stage ◽  
C Elegans ◽  
Zygotic Genome

HIGHLIGHTS‒RNA-seq on each cell of the early C. elegans embryo complements the known lineage‒We measured the zygotic activation specific to each unique cell of the embryo‒We identified genes that are functionally redundant and critical for development‒We created an interactive online data visualization tool for exploring the dataeTOC BLURBC. elegans is a powerful model for development, with an invariant and completely described cell lineage. To enrich this resource, we performed single-cell RNA-seq on each cell of the embryo through the 16-cell stage. Zygotic genome activation is differential between cell types. We identified hundreds of candidates for partially redundant genes, and verified one such set as critical for development. We created an interactive online data visualization tool to invite others to explore our dataset.SUMMARYDuring embryonic development, cells must establish fates, morphologies and behaviors in coordination with one another to form a functional body. A prevalent hypothesis for how this coordination is achieved is that each cell’s fate and behavior is determined by a defined mixture of RNAs. Only recently has it become possible to measure the full suite of transcripts in a single cell. Here we quantify the abundance of every mRNA transcript in each cell of the C. elegans embryo up to the 16-cell stage. We describe spatially dynamic expression, quantify cell-specific differential activation of the zygotic genome, and identify critical developmental genes previously unappreciated because of their partial redundancy. We present an interactive data visualization tool that allows broad access to our dataset. This genome-wide single-cell map of mRNA abundance, alongside the well-studied life history and fates of each cell, describes at a cellular resolution the mRNA landscape that guides development.

Approaching data visualizations as interfaces : An empirical demonstration of how data are imag(in)ed

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela van Geenen ◽  
Maranke Wieringa
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Network Visualization ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Empirical Demonstration ◽  
Data Visualizations ◽  
Term Data

This chapter points out data visualization’s double role as explorative and communicative means in humanities research. We draw from science and technology studies looking at the mediation process at stake: the interaction between visualization tool and researcher. To emphasize this mediation process and expose the various decisions at its heart we introduce the term ‘data interface’. We highlight how visualizations function as data interfaces and visualization practices allow for interfacing with data biographing a network graph’s ‘life’. Using the lens of the ‘data interface’ underscores that a particular (network) visualization provides just one perspective on the data. Moreover, we examine if and how the used data interfaces encourage scholars to critically position their investigative work, during research processes and communication.

scholarly journals (The domestication of) Nordic domestication?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
High Uptake ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Future State

AbstractThe domestication concept, originally developed in Britain in the context of media appropriation in households’ everyday life, has seen a relatively high uptake in the Nordic countries from early on. This was by far not only an application of the concept, but an alternative interpretation with different emphases. I introduce two major strands of this uptake in this article: the Norwegian science and technology studies interpretation, and the primarily Finnish consumer and design research interpretation. These case studies will help answer the question of the degree of Nordicness in these interpretations of the domestication approach. In a last instance, the article aims to address the question what the current – and hopefully future – state of domestication research in the Nordic countries could look like.

scholarly journals Trois regards sur la notion de « culture chinoise »

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-116
Author(s):  
Basile Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Interactional Expertise ◽  
General Argument ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Chinese Studies

Abstract Chinese studies are going through a period of reforms. This article appraises what could constitute the theoretical and methodological foundations of contemporary sinology today. The author suggests an approach of “Chinese culture” by drawing from recent frameworks of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The paper starts with current debates in Asian studies, followed by a historical overview of the concept of culture in anthropology. Then, two short case studies are presented with regard to two different STS approaches: studies of expertise and experience and the notion of interactional expertise, and the framework of waves and forms. A general argument is thereby sketched which suggests how “Chinese culture” can be understood from the perspective of materiality.

Queere Praktiken der Reproduktion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Charlotte Dionisius
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Feminist Science ◽  
Technology Studies

Ein, zwei, drei oder vier Elternteile, »Sponkel«, »Mapas« und lesbische Zeugungsakte - wer oder was Familie ist und wie sie gegründet wird, hat sich vervielfältigt. Sarah Charlotte Dionisius rekonstruiert aus einer von den Feminist Science and Technology Studies inspirierten, queertheoretischen Perspektive, wie lesbische und queere Frauen*paare, die mittels Samenspende Eltern geworden sind, Familie, Verwandtschaft und Geschlecht imaginieren und praktizieren. Damit wirft sie einen heteronormativitätskritischen Blick auf die sozialwissenschaftliche Familienforschung sowie auf gesellschaftliche und rechtliche Entwicklungen, die neue Ein- und Ausschlüsse queerer familialer Lebensweisen mit sich bringen.

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