Description
| Product ID: | 9789811924781 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Figure |
| Subtitle: | Concept and Method |
| Authors: | Author: Celia Lury, William Viney, Scott Wark |
| Page Count: | 283 |
| Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, Anthropology |
| Description: | This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. 1. Introduction: Figure, Figuring and Configuration. 2. The Work That Figures Do. 3. In "The Cloud": Figuring and Inhabiting Media Milieus. 4. Figure to Ground: Felicity Allen Interviewed by Celia Lury. 5. The Research Persona Method: Figuring and Reconfiguring Personalised Information Flows. 6. Engines, Puppets, Promises: The Figurations of Configuration Management. 7. Figuring Molecular Relapse in Breast Cancer Medicine. 8. The Gardener and the Walled Garden. 9. Data Through Time: Figuring Out the Narrative Self in Longitudinal Research. 10. Figuring Out Exposure: Exploring Computational Environments and Personalisation in Interdisciplinary Air Pollution Research. 11. Figures of Speech: Stuck in the Middle with ''People Like You''. 12. Ubiquitous Surveillance and Data Selves. 13. Figuring Accompaniment: The Creation of Urban Spaciousness. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Springer Verlag, Singapore |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-10-27 |
