Diverse Angles (Asynchronous Session)
Issues of Diversity and Identity in Data Visualization: Critique on the Historical and Contemporary Applications of ISOTYPE and Chernoff Faces View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Eugene Park
Effective visualizations on population data can help reveal societal and systematic problems and even offer insights to possible solutions. Despite all of the utilitarian benefits that conventional forms of visualizations can provide, there have been attempts to offer new modes of representing data by shaping graphs into the likeness of humans. While the motivations and approaches to these experimental and anthropomorphic forms of data-driven graphics may be novel, some of the results of these visualizations have yielded problematic portrayals and surveillance of BIPOC groups. What these shortcomings show is the implicit bias and the shortsightedness in the history and field of data visualization that can serve as important lessons to its practitioners. They can teach us that any attempt to construct new forms of visualizations—particularly those that resemble human bodies—must be sensitive and inclusive to all peoples through thoughtful consideration of their parameters and user testing with diverse groups. This paper puts forward the shortcomings of two data-driven graphics, ISOTYPE and Chernoff Faces as case studies. The intention behind this position is not to suggest that efforts to anthropomorphize data is a self-defeating ambition, but to help promote inclusive design practices for practitioners of the field.
Creativity as a Social Development Component to the Local Economy: Proposal of a New Creative Metric View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Monica Georgina Avelar Bribiesca
This paper focuses on the idea to propose; one qualitative measurement for creativity because the ones already existing focus on quantitative aspects. The first thing to consider is how inaccurate or easily misunderstood can be the interpretation of the information because of the way rules are set in cases like intellectual property, where you can register in any country without considering the nationality of the researchers involved. The fact of creation is the exploration of our work, most of the time inaccurate situations or empirical. The actual measurements focus on numbers related to the number of creative schools. Professional's income, tolerance, and a few others. We consider and set other points most related to the creative scene. Given these points, what are we present is the analysis of three creativity metrics. We introduce a new proposal complementing the ones that we already have, considering the empirical work of four creative members of our community in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
The Failure of the First Democratization Programs in Independent Morocco (1955-1960): A History from Below View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Osire Glacier
Few studies have examined the first four governments of independent Morocco (1955-1960). As a result, current historical narratives provide no satisfactory answer to a major question, namely the identification of the mechanisms that led to the failure of the social, political, and economic democratization programs pursued by these governments, which benefitted from almost unanimous support from the population. This paper proposes to advance a synthetic analysis of the events in question. To do so, I limit my study to the first four governments of independent Morocco – the last one was dissolved by King Mohamed V in 1960. In addition, I examine new sources, including testimonies, newspaper clippings from the time, and documents from family archives. The current decade, with its technological advances, has allowed ordinary people to transcend the limits imposed on freedom of expression, and to publish information of collective interest on various platforms. Thanks to these sources, I have been able to reconstruct in part the historical facts that occurred during the period studied, and to highlight omissions perpetrated by the official historical accounts. Finally, I adopted mixed subalternist approaches to apprehending these texts. Beyond the reconstruction of historical facts, this presentation raises the issue of the links that exist between democracy and history. Inevitably, it highlights the “invisibilization” of certain social categories in historical narratives, which results from multiple factors, such as gender, class, and urbanity/rurality division.
I’m Not Racist But…: Color Blind Racial Attitudes in Australia as a Function of Sociodemographic Factors View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Bill Johnson
The purpose of this study is to add to the growing international literature addressing the prevalence of color blind racial attitudes. The current study builds on the important empirical research on racism in Australia by focussing on the relationship between demographic factors (e.g. gender, age and education) and CoBRAs. A second aim of the current study is to build on the important empirical research on racism in Australia by incorporating consideration of the relationship between religious beliefs and CoBRAs. Participants were 1273 Central Queensland residents that were recruited through Central Queensland University Population Research Laboratory. The result showed that older participants were more aware of social privileges, but they were less aware of blatant racism. Additionally, in contradiction of other studies, this study found an absence of a relationship between gender or religion income with racial attitudes.
