Digital Pedagogy

The Aesthetics of Data Settings

brittenhouse6 — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:01:55 +0000

The Aesthetics of Data Settings

What characterizes our aesthetic experiences of data? We are exploring what data can do to us, beyond what it does for us. When do data inspire feelings of curiosity, empowerment, anxiety, or resilience? The focus of our work is on data settings, rather than data sets. The term data set suggests something that is complete, discrete, and effortlessly transferable. But data are none of those things. We use the term data setting (first introduced in All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data Driven Society) to describe a broader context in which data are meant to be fully understood. Our current work explores the role of place and space in the creation of new data settings. We take a creative approach to questions about how data settings might work on an aesthetic level. In 2021, we made expressive use of painted rubber ducks to explore the aesthetics of cute and grotesque data in a physicalization of turbidity data from Intrenchment Creek in Southeast Atlanta (link). This summer, we are designing a new data physicalization for the Georgia Tech EcoCommons, which is described by its creators as “80 acres of green space across campus that follow what were the original naturally occurring stream paths” (link). We believe that data can transform the aesthetic experience of the EcoCommons, with implications for how visitors relate to the broader ecology in which our campus is situated.

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Project Year

2021-22

Project Leads

Yanni Loukissas

Genre Tags

Media Art

Digital Media

Digital Storytelling

Digital Pedagogy

Project Site

Project Website

Contact Email

yanni.loukissas@lmc.gatech.edu

Computing: History, Society, and Ethics

brittenhouse6 — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:34:37 +0000

Computing: History, Society, and Ethics

We are developing a course module for LMC 3304: Science, Technology, and Gender that includes readings and assignments promoting student learning about historical, social, and ethical dimensions of computer technology and computing, with particular emphasis on gender and race issues. In addition to accessing library digital archival materials, students will read and discuss scholarship in the history of science and technology, the social sciences, science and technology studies (STS), and media studies to analyze computer science practice, education, and product development and reception through a gendered lens. A gendered lens includes a focus not only on gender, but on race, sexuality, (dis)ability, economic structures, citizenship status, and any other categories resulting in marginalization. Students will examine the historical exclusion of women from computational fields, as well as the ways that masculinity and femininity are performed with and through design and use of computational and digital technology.

Readings and graded assignments will raise awareness of ethical social justice issues such as disparate impacts of algorithms, the digital divide, social media disinformation, and electronic waste and will ask students to consider these in relation to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and to principles of anti-racism. A digital assignment rubric will be developed over the summer that will ask students to create a visualization regarding issues of equity in computing. The digital assignment will call for each team of students to collaborate on developing a website component such as a timeline with dates of computing achievements significant for marginalized groups, a map outlining how e-waste moves around the world, Wikipedia-type entries related to equity issues in computing, a mind map presenting unethical social media interventions in politics, or an e-children’s book about diverse figures in computing history. Course resources and projects will be archived as a model for other instructors.

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Project Year

2021-22

Project Leads

Carol Colatrella

Students

Kera Allen

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Contact Email

carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu

360 Degrees of Atlanta: Introduction of Atlanta in Japanese

brittenhouse6 — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:28:52 +0000

360 Degrees of Atlanta: Introduction of Atlanta in Japanese

The pandemic prevented us from traveling around the world. To the students who are studying Japanese, visiting Japan is their dream. In this project, students will experience visiting Japan virtually using a VR system and create movies to introduce Atlanta to Japanese viewers using 360 cameras. Through this project, students will learn how to introduce sightseeing spots in Atlanta in Japanese, how to edit/organize the video and how to make attractive thumbnails for Japanese viewers.

The videos from Fall 2021 is archived on https://sites.gatech.edu/japn-atlanta360.

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Publications, Exhibitions, Other Products

McDaniel, A & Goar E. (2022) “Pilot study of 360 degrees video: What we learned from the project” The 37^th Annual SEATJ Conference, Virtual. April 2022

Project Year

2021-22

Project Leads

Aya McDaniel

Genre Tags

Digital Filmmaking

Digital Pedagogy

Contact Email

aya.mcdaniel@modlangs.gatech.edu