Making the Invisible Visible: The Phenomenon of Data Visualization as a Framework to Understand How Software Shapes the Imaginary and the Image.
In today's society the use of new technologies for data visualizations is becoming increasingly widespread. This article seeks neither to give a complete view of its history nor an exhaustive definition of the phenomenon of data visualization. This article takes a new perspective on data visualizati...
| Publicado en: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 208 - 233 |
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2021
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