000			01809nam a22002057a 4500
005			20230324100820.0
008			220909b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780822357445
040			_cAL
041			_aeng
082			_223 _a003.54 _bHALB
100			_aOrit Halpern _956979
245			_aBeautiful data _bA History of vision and reason since 1945
260			_aLondon _bDuke University Press _c2014
300			_aix,342p. _bPB _c22.9X15.2cm.
365			_2General _aWORDI/2022/CRB/1323 _b₹1533.00 _d₹2190.20 _e30% _f26-08-2022 _c₹
520			_aBeautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption.
650			_2Computer Science _aSystems _956980
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c224552 _d224552