Students were given weekly reading assignments. These were to be discussed in the sessions listed in the table. Also listed are the specific readings (author/topic) for student-led discussions in class. Complete citations for these are provided in the readings section.
Instruction Guide (PDF)
Assignments Files
| LEC # |
ASSIGNMENTS |
STUDENT-LED DISCUSSIONS |
| 3 |
Assignment 1: Social Interaction Interfaces: Seeing the Internet (PDF)
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Bertin - Semiology of Graphics
Tufte - Visual and Statistical Thinking |
| 4 |
Assignment 2: Incorporating Body Images (Medicine) (PDF)
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Cartwright - "The Visible Woman"
Rapp - "Real Time Fetus"
Cartwright - "The Logic of Heartbeats" |
| 5 |
Assignment 3: Diagrams and Logic (Physics and Flowcharts) (PDF) |
Kaiser - "Stick Figure Realism"
Hacking - "Observation" (Chapter 10) and "Microscopes" (Chapter 11)
Galison - "Nuclear Emulsions" (Chapter 3) and "The Electronic Image" (Chapter 6) |
| 6 |
Assignment 4: Moving Biology Images (PDF) |
Cambrosio, et. al. - "Ehrlich's Beautiful Pictures"
Landecker - Technologies of Living Substance
Bastide - "The Iconography of Scientific Texts" |
| 7 |
Assignment 5: Seeing Structures: Molecular Modeling (PDF) |
Keller - Making Sense of Life (Chapter 8 on "Modeling")
Francoeur - "Cyrus Levinthal, the Kluge and the Origins of Interactive Molecular Graphics" |
| 8 |
Assignment 6: Arguing about World Data: GIS and Climate Change (PDF)
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Edwards - "Data-laden Models"
Bowker - Climate Data Disputes
Schienke - Images Documented |
| 9 |
Assignment 7: Deep Sea Seeing (PDF)
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Singh, et. al. - "Imaging Underwater for Archaeology"
Ballard, et. al. - "The Discovery of Ancient History in the Deep Sea" |
| 10 |
Assignment 8: Judging Images: Courts and Photography (PDF) |
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| 11 |
Assignment 9: Ingesting Images: Symptoms and Subjectivity (PDF) |
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| 12 |
Assignment 10: Presentations (PDF) |
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