![]() ![]() ![]() Her answer is encouraging: “There actually is a lot we can learn from using data visualization if we put them to work during our research process.” She outlines four reasons why we should continue to engage in these efforts. Gries poses the provocative question: “Is it worth our efforts to use digital visualization to try to expand our knowledge?” Gries’s talk emphasizes the current challenges facing scholars who do visual research with new media images: “As a visual methodologist, I am especially concerned that our ways of doing visual studies have not kept pace with the proliferation of digitally mediated practices and the digital technologies at our disposal to study them.”Ĭonsidering the time and energy that it takes keep pace with these practices and technologies, Dr. ![]() In her longitudinal study of Shepard Fairey’s “Obama Hope,” she developed a digital, visual methodology called iconographic tracking in order “to trace the circulation, transformation, and consequentiality of new media images.”ĭr. Laurie Gries, whose lecture “Doing Digital Visual Studies” reflects upon and extends the research she undertook in her award-winning book Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics. As part of our spring 2017 Speaker Series, the Digital Writing & Research Lab hosted Dr. ![]()
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