As part of our dashboard genealogy which we are undertaking as one of our research themes, we came across some IBM advertisements from the early 60’s. In the ad shown here for example IBM promoted some of their systems that aided in business decision making and control (International Electric Accounting and Tabulating Machines, International Time Recorders…
Will has written a magnificent brief piece for The New Enquiry entitled The Data Sublime, have a read here
Following David Stark’s initiative to deploy and repurpose PowerPoint for academic discussions, I designed a silent lecture on dashboards for our presentation at the Digital Methods Initiative’s Winter School 2015. The images that we included as part of our silent lecture have been arranged and patterned to suggest some of the conceptual lines of enquiry that…
I attended the Interface Critique conference at UdK Berlin back in November where Keynote Speaker Olia Lialina gave a presentation entitled ‘Rich User Experience’. Olia presented a range of examples from her archaeology of new media work and displayed them to think about what interfaces provoke and afford. These displays served to prove how naturalised…
A brief impact essay has been released as part of our collaboration with the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at the Think Tank DEMOS. Nathaniel Tkacz and Jamie Bartlett – Director at CASM – discuss the relevance of studying dashboards from a policy perspective. Access the essay here.
Our project has been featured within the ‘in detail’ grants’ winners page of the THE supplement.