link to The Internet With A Human Face
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Homes I Saw
Project 1 - Homes I Saw Homes I Saw is a piece that I created in response to Josh Begley’s Prison Map. As noted in a previous post, I took issue with the ways that Begley presented satellite images as “actual” representations of prison landscapes, as well as how the...
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Thinking about data
Datasets, even if honest, still don’t necessarily tell us about the subject of the data. Despite this, datasets can tell us where their collectors’ mindsets, biases, and perspectives are. I think it is dangerous (risking misinformation about the subjects’ lives and their truths) to allow datasets to shape how we...
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Josh Begley’s Prison Map
Josh Begley’s Prison Map is a piece that attempts to subvert (what I see as) data-centric perspectives and explanations for the United States’ positioning as the prison capital of the world. When writing about the oft-trot explanations for growing imprisonment, Begley lists through numbers, dates, and charts as examples. Then...
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Bad Writer by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
link to Bad Writer
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