Making sense: Reflections on an event-based memoir in an existential mode

2021 ◽  
pp. 263497952110427
Author(s):  
Leslie A Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
Event Based

I began this contemplation of skull and mind after a concussion in 2017 meant that I had to stop reading and engaging in the variety of daily, cognitive activities that comprise academic work. Making Sense documents the subjective sensorium of this injury through a multimedia memoir and autoethnographic analysis that is attuned to ‘existential modalities’. I contemplate an emerging, perceptual repertoire alongside other knowledge practices that recognize the more surreal dimensions of a life-interrupted. Materiality and colour and painting (and text) are considered as evocative modes for apprehending embodied experience and textures of memory and imagination. As an experiment with methodologies of perception, Making Sense includes an abridged, event-based memoir (in stone, text and paintings). An animated pptx version is linked.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Stigmatized Organizations: Labelling Contests and Power Dynamics in Social Evaluation Processes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gro Kvåle ◽  
Zuzana Murdoch
Keyword(s):  
Moral Panic ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Hells Angels ◽  
Multiple Audiences ◽  
Event Based ◽  
Power Play

AbstractHow do social audiences negotiate and handle stigmatized organizations? What role do their heterogenous values, norms and power play in this process? Addressing these questions is important from a business ethics perspective to improve our understanding of the ethical standards against which organizations are judged as well as the involved prosecutorial incentives. Moreover, it illuminates ethical concerns about when and how (the exploitation of) power imbalances may induce inequity in the burdens imposed by such social evaluations. We address these questions building on two event-based case studies involving Hells Angels Motorcycle Club Norway, and contribute to organizational stigma theory in three ways. First, social evaluations of a stigmatized organization by multiple audiences are found to interact, collide and combine in a labelling contest. Second, we show that labels employed in this contest are pushed to either negative extremes (‘moral panic’) or positive extremes (‘moral patronage’). Finally, we show when and how power represents a double-edged sword in social evaluation processes, which can be wielded either to the benefit or to the detriment of the actors under evaluation.

From Data-Centered to Activity-Centered Geospatial Visualizations

2016 ◽  
pp. 246-268
Author(s):  
Olga Buchel ◽  
Kamran Sedig
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Real World ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Standard Data ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
Data Layers

As geospatial visualizations grow in popularity, their role in human activities is also evolving. While maps have been used to support higher-level cognitive activities such as decision-making, sense making, and knowledge discovery, traditionally their use in such activities has been partial. Nowadays they are being used at various stages of such activities. This trend is simultaneously being accompanied with another shift: a movement from the design and use of data-centered geospatial visualizations to activity-centered visualizations. Data-centered visualizations are primarily focused on representation of data from data layers; activity-centered visualizations, not only represent the data layers, but also focus on users' needs and real-world activities—such as storytelling and comparing data layers with other information. Examples of this shift are being seen in some mashup techniques that deviate from standard data-driven visualization designs. Beyond the discussion of the needed shift, this chapter presents ideas for designing human-activity-centered geospatial visualizations.

scholarly journals Doing Audio-Visual Montage to Explore Time and Space: The Everyday Rhythms of Billingsgate Fish Market

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Time Lapse ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Fish Market ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Time Lapse Photography

This article documents, shows and analyses the everyday rhythms of Billingsgate, London's wholesale fish market. It takes the form of a short film based an audio-visual montage of time-lapse photography and sound recordings, and a textual account of the dimensions of market life revealed by this montage. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis, and the embodied experience of moving through and sensing the market, the film renders the elusive quality of the market and the work that takes place within it to make it happen. The composite of audio-visual recordings immerses viewers in the space and atmosphere of the market and allows us to perceive and analyse rhythms, patterns, flows, interactions, temporalities and interconnections of market work, themes that this article discusses. The film is thereby both a means of showing market life and an analytic tool for making sense of it. This article critically considers the documentation, evocation and analysis of time and space in this way.

From Data-Centered to Activity-Centered Geospatial Visualizations

2014 ◽  
pp. 266-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Buchel ◽  
Kamran Sedig
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Real World ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Standard Data ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
Data Layers

As geospatial visualizations grow in popularity, their role in human activities is also evolving. While maps have been used to support higher-level cognitive activities such as decision-making, sense making, and knowledge discovery, traditionally their use in such activities has been partial. Nowadays they are being used at various stages of such activities. This trend is simultaneously being accompanied with another shift: a movement from the design and use of data-centered geospatial visualizations to activity-centered visualizations. Data-centered visualizations are primarily focused on representation of data from data layers; activity-centered visualizations, not only represent the data layers, but also focus on users’ needs and real-world activities—such as storytelling and comparing data layers with other information. Examples of this shift are being seen in some mashup techniques that deviate from standard data-driven visualization designs. Beyond the discussion of the needed shift, this chapter presents ideas for designing human-activity-centered geospatial visualizations.

scholarly journals Making Sense of the Digital as Embodied Experience

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Bouchardon ◽  
Asunción López-Varela
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Making Sense
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