{"id":510,"date":"2022-01-07T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-112\/?page_id=510"},"modified":"2022-10-20T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:20:34","slug":"dmt-iii-feminist-data-visualization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-112\/dmt-iii-feminist-data-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"DMT III: Feminist Data Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Update: 10\/20\/2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Create a shared document with notes, comments, questions on the readings, title it DMT II, put it in the shared folder for class (and email me) prior to our meeting to discuss these materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You might think feminism has absolutely nothing to do with maps and mapping. Hah!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFeminist Data Visualization\u201d<\/strong> by\u00a0Catherine D\u2019Ignazio<\/strong> and Lauren F. Klein<\/strong> is a precursor to the book published in 2020 called Data Feminism<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em> We will read and discuss the former, but I\u2019ll include some details from the latter below. Also, look at \u201cCan Feminist Robots Challenge Our Biases?<\/a>\u201dFeminist Data Visualization\u201d<\/strong> PDF here<\/a>.<\/strong>Data Feminism <\/em><\/strong>book information here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0Ponder these questions, google stuff: examples are always good: put some notes on your lab blog<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. What are\u00a0Feminist Science and Technology Studies<\/strong>? (Fornara<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  2. What is\u00a0Feminist Human-Computer<\/strong> Interaction? (Vandervelde<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  3. What is Digital Humanities<\/strong> and what is Feminist Digital Humanities<\/strong>? (Rancher<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  4. Where does Critical Cartography & GIS<\/strong> (which we have discussed) fit into this all? (Kline<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  5. Principles of Feminist Data Visualization:<\/strong> think up or find examples that fit the principles\n
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    1. What does it mean to\u00a0Rethink Binaries<\/strong>? Examples in mapping and GIS? (Fellenstein<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
    2. What does it mean to Embrace Pluralism<\/strong>? Examples in mapping and GIS? (Levin<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
    3. What does it mean to Examine Power and Aspire to Empowerment<\/strong>? Examples in mapping and GIS? (Kelly<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
    4. What does it mean to\u00a0Consider Context<\/strong>? Examples in mapping and GIS? (Singh<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
    5. What does it mean to Legitimize Embodiment and Affect<\/strong>? Examples in mapping and GIS? (Lewis<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
    6. What does it mean to Make Labor Visible<\/strong>? Examples in mapping and GIS? (Bruni<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    7. Is this approach helpful, and how? What are the potential long-term impacts of these kinds of concepts and ideas on mapping and GIS, and society in general? (everyone)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      Donna Haraway, <\/span>Primate Visions<\/span><\/i> (1989): Successive ideas and paradigms in <\/span>primate research<\/b> (on topics like parenting, behavior, sex, resource use, and warfare) have <\/span>tended to reflect the historical social concerns and anxieties of the period of their investigation,<\/b> and were often imbued with sexist, racist, and colonial discourses.\u201d<\/span>(image source<\/a>)<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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      Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

      		A young woman buried with stone tools including spearheads 9000 years ago in what is now Peru probably hunted animals including deer. The finding may help overturn long-standing assumptions about gender roles<\/a> in ancient hunter-gatherer communities in the Americas<\/a>. Within present-day hunter-gatherer communities across North and South America, women makeup at least one-third of the hunting force, and possibly as much as half, says Randy Haas at the University of California, Davis. However, although archaeological investigations over the past century have also found hunting tools in the graves of prehistoric women throughout the Americas, Haas says it took the unearthing of a young woman\u2019s bones in the Andes mountains for scientists to set aside their unconscious biases about gender roles and recognize what they were seeing.\u201cThere is sexist ideology in Western culture that may have slowed our ability to recognize females as hunters in the past,\u201d says Haas, adding that he himself was \u201csurprised, unfortunately\u201d by his discovery.\u201cEven some of the most forward-thinking feminist scholars had accepted it to be true [that women weren\u2019t usually hunters],\u201d he says. Read more: https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2258985-men-and-women-in-early-americas-shared-hunting-duties-equally\/#ixzz6dFHFn6yP<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
      \"\"<\/td>\nAmericans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers<\/a>. But scientists are affected by conscious and unconscious biases for more than 150 years, dating back at least to Charles Darwin\u2019s writings on sexual selection<\/a>, scientists have generally considered bird song to be a male trait. But over the past 20 years, research has shown that both males and females in many bird species sing. Recent findings have shown that female song is widespread<\/a>, and it is likely that the ancestor of all songbirds had female song. In a recently published study<\/a>, we reviewed 20 years of research on female bird song and found that the key people driving this recent paradigm shift were women. Source<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

      Krygier’s Notes and Thoughts<\/em><\/strong>Collections to look at…<\/p>\n