Pixels and Bandwidth: On Imaginaries of Travel in Data
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12.2022
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04A - Book part
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Metzner-Szigeth, Andreas
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On the Interplay of Images Imaginaries and Imagination in Science Communication
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111-122
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Leo S. Olschki
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Firenze
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Abstract
The imaginary of travelling in data traces interdisciplinary concerns for technical artefacts. Focusing on data collection on radio signals gathered by a community of radio amateurs and enthusiasts, informational tools – ‘data observatories’ – render signals commensurable through their different visual representations. What can pixel distribution in a sound spectrogram tell us about a radio signal? Following Haraway’s insistence on the importance and persistence of vision as an embodied gaze enabling a new doctrine of objectivity, this study proceeds by extracting and organizing radio signal qualities using a machine-learning algorithm to expose them again to the visual faculty of subjective observers. Vision and travel constitute methodical tools to unfold disciplinary concerns starting from specific data in a way that favours interactional expertise.
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radio signals, visualisation, datasets, travelling, imaginary, interface, situatedness, STS
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978-88-222-6871-6
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English
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Published
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Savic, S. (2022). Pixels and Bandwidth: On Imaginaries of Travel in Data. In A. Metzner-Szigeth (Ed.), On the Interplay of Images Imaginaries and Imagination in Science Communication (pp. 111–122). Leo S. Olschki. https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/35011