Numbers and nerves : information, emotion, and meaning in a world of data /

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"We live in the age of Big Data, awash in a sea of ever-expanding information--a constant deluge of facts, statistics, models, and projections. The human mind is quickly desensitized by information presented in the form of numbers, and yet many important social and environmental phenomena, rang...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Slovic, Paul, 1938- (Editor ), Slovic, Scott, 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2015.
©2015
Temas:
Big data.
Information society > Psychological aspects.
Données volumineuses.
Société informatisée > Aspect psychologique.
COMPUTERS/Data Processing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Social and Psychological Perspectives on Sensitivity and Meaning With an introduction / Scott Slovic
  • 1. More Who Die, the Less We Care: Psychic Numbing and Genocide / Daniel Vastfjall
  • 2. Pseudoinefficacy and the Arithmetic of Compassion / Marcus Mayorga
  • 3. Prominence Effect: Confronting the Collapse of Humanitarian Values in Foreign Policy Decisions / Paul Slovic
  • 4. Age of Numbing / Greg Mitchell
  • 5. Epidemic Disease as Structural Violence: An Excerpt from Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights / Paul Farmer
  • pt. II Narrative, Analytical, and Visual Strategies for Prompting Sensitivity and Meaning With an introduction / Paul Slovic
  • 6. Power of One / Nicholas D. Kristof
  • 7. From One to Too Many / Kenneth Helphand
  • 8. Wreck of Time / Annie Dillard
  • 9. Science, Eloquence, and the Asymmetry of Trust: What's at Stake in Climate Change Fiction / Scott Slovic
  • 10. Healing Rwanda / Terry Tempest Williams
  • 11. When Words Fail: Climate Change Activists Have Chosen a Magic Number / Bill Mckibben
  • 12. Blood Root of Art / Rick Bass
  • pt. III Interviews on the Communication of Numerical Information to the General Public With an introduction / Paul Slovic
  • 13. Reacting to Information in a "Personal, Moral Way": An Interview with Homero and Betty Aridjis
  • 14. Countering the "Anesthesia of Destruction": An Interview with Vandana Shiva
  • 15. Meaning of "One Data Point": An Interview with Sandra Steingraber
  • 16. Introspection, Social Transformation, and the Trans-Scalar Imaginary: An Interview with Chris Jordan
  • pt. IV Postscript / Paul Slovic.

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