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STS.067

Scientific Visualization across Disciplines: A Critical Introduction

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Studying Visualizations: Issues and Methods
  • Social Interaction Interfaces: Seeing the Internet Guest Lecturer: Fernanda Viegas, Scott Golder (Sociable Media Group, MIT Media Lab)
  • Incorporating Body Images (Medicine)
  • Diagrams and Logic (Physics and Flowcharts)
  • Moving Biology Images
  • Seeing Structures: Molecular Modeling Guest Lecturer: Prof. Catherine Drennan (MIT Chemistry Dept.)
  • Arguing about World Data: GIS and Climate Change
  • Deep Sea Seeing Guest Lecturer: Brendan Foley (MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society)
  • Judging Images: Courts and Photography
  • Ingesting Images: Symptoms and Subjectivity
  • Presentations

Readings

  • Gladwell, Malcolm. “The Picture Problem.” The New Yorker , December 13, 2004, pp. 74-81.
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  • Keller, E. F. “The Biological Gaze.” In FutureNatural: Nature, Science, Culture . Edited by G. Robertson. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 9780415070140.
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  • Schaffer, Simon. “Astronomers Mark Time: Discipline and the Personal Equation.” Science in Context 2 (1988): 115-145.
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  • Caroline, A. Jones, and Peter Galison. Picturing Science Producing Art . New York, NY: Routledge, 1998. ISBN: 9780415919128.
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  • McCann, UD, Z Szabo, U Scheffel, RF Dannals, and GA Ricaurte. “Positron Emission Tomographic Evidence of Toxic Effect of MDMA (“Ecstasy”) on Brain Serotonin Neurons in Human Beings.” The Lancet 352 (October 31, 1998): 1433-1437.
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  • Bertin, Jacques. Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps . Translated by W. J. Berg. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, pp. i-13. ISBN: 9780299090609.
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  • Tufte, E. R. Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making. “Testbooklet”. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780961392130.
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  • Kassirer, J. P. “Images in Clinical Medicine.” The New England Journal of Medicine 326, no. 12 (March 12, 1992): 829-830.
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  • Rapp, Rayna. “Real Time Fetus.” In Cyborgs and Citadels . Edited by Joseph Dumit, and Gary Lee Downey. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780933452978.
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  • Cartwright, Elizabeth. “The Logic of Heartbeats.” In Cyborgs and Citadels . Edited by Joseph Dumit, and Gary Lee Downey. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780933452978.
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  • Treichler, Paula, Lisa Cartwright, and Constance Penley. “The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies.” Gender and Science. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780814715680.
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  • Dumit. Picturing Personhood . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, December 15, 2003, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780691113982.
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  • Cartwright, Lisa. “ The Visible Man .” In Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life. Edited by Jennifer Terry, and Melodie Calvert. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415149327.
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  • Galison, Peter. “Nuclear Emulsions: The Anxiety of the Experimenter.” In Image and Logic . Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780226279176.
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  • Kaiser, David. “Stick Figure Realism.” Representations 70 (Spring 2000). University of California.
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  • Hacking, Ian. “Microscopes.” Chapter 11 in Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780521238298.
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  • Galison, Peter. “The Electronic Image: Iconoclasm and the New Icons.” In Image and Logic . Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780226279176.
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  • Edgerton, Samuel. “Galileo, Florentine ‘Disegno,’ and the ‘Strange Spottedness of the Moon’.” Art Journal (Fall 1984): 225-232.
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  • Hacking, Ian. “Observation.” In Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780521238298.
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  • Landecker, Hannah L. Technologies of Living Substance: Tissue Culture and Cellular Life in Twentieth Century Biomedicine. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, February 2000, c1999.
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  • A, Cambrosio, Jacobi D, and Keating P. “Ehrlich’s ‘Beautiful Pictures’ and the controversial beginnings of immunological imagery.” Isis 84, no. 4 (December 1993): 662-99.
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  • “Biological Imaging Special Issue.” Science 300 (April 4, 2003).
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  • Keller, E. F. Making Sense of Life . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003, chapter 8. ISBN: 9780674012509.
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  • Endy, Drew, and Roger Brent. “Modelling Cellular Behavior.” Nature 409 (January 18, 2001): 391-395.
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  • Francoeur, Eric. “Cyrus Levinthal, the Kluge and the Origins of Interactive Molecular Graphics.” Endeavour 26, no. 4 (2002): 127-131.
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  • Edwards, Paul N. “Global Climate Science, Uncertainty and Politics: Data-laden Models, Model-Filtered Data.” Science as Culture 8, no. 4 (1999): 437-472.
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  • ———. “The Role of Quantitative Models in Science.” In The Role of Models in Ecosystem Science . Edited by Charles D. Canham, Jonathan J. Cole, and William K. Lauenroth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
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  • Ballard, R. D., A. M. McCann, D. Yoerger, and L. Whitcomb. “The Discovery of Ancient History in the Deep Sea.” Deep-Sea Research I 47 (2000): 1591-1620.
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  • Singh, Hanumant, Jonathan Adams, David Mindell, and Brendan Foley. “Imaging Underwater for Archaeology.” Journal of Field Archaeology 27 (2000): 319-328.
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  • Godden, Katherine A. “Cartoon Criminals: The Unclear Future Of Computer Animation In The Minnesota Criminal Courtroom - State V. Stewart.” William Mitchell Law Review, 2003.
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  • Lynch, Michael, and Ruth McNally. “‘Science,’ ‘Common Sense,’ and DNA Evidence: A Legal Controversy about the Public Understanding of Science.” Public Understanding of Science 12 (2003): 83-103.
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  • Tagg, John. “Totaled Machines: Criticism, Photography and Technological Change,” and “The Discontinuous City: Picturing and the Discursive Field.” In Grounds of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics, and the Discursive Field. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780816621323.
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  • Metzl, Jonathan M., and Michelle Riba. “Understanding the Symbolic Value of Medications: A Brief Review.” Primary Psychiatry 10, no. 7 (2003): 45-48.
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  • Greenslit, N. “Depression and Consumption: Psychopharmaceuticals, Branding, and New Identity Politics.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry . (Prerelease.)
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