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)
| LEC # | ASSIGNMENTS | STUDENT-LED DISCUSSIONS |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Assignment 1: Social Interaction Interfaces: Seeing the Internet (PDF) |
Bertin - Semiology of Graphics Tufte - Visual and Statistical Thinking |
| 4 | Assignment 2: Incorporating Body Images (Medicine) (PDF) |
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) |
Edwards - “Data-laden Models” Bowker - Climate Data Disputes Schienke - Images Documented |
| 9 | Assignment 7: Deep Sea Seeing (PDF) |
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) | |
| 11 | Assignment 9: Ingesting Images: Symptoms and Subjectivity (PDF) | |
| 12 | Assignment 10: Presentations (PDF) |
