The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation
The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation
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DOI：
10.1177/0038038516674675
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发表时间：
2018-08-01
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2.9
通讯作者：
Hill, Rosemary Lucy
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作者：
Kennedy, Helen;Hill, Rosemary Lucy
本文强调了情感在与数据及其可视化的接触中所起的作用。到目前为止，数据与情感之间的关系很少被关注，部分原因是数据研究没有关注日常与数据的接触。我们通过一项实证研究表明，在数据及其可视化的各个方面存在着广泛的情感关联，从而证明情感作为理解数据的重要组成部分的重要性。我们对那种认为数据化体制（其中数字、指标和统计数据占主导）以对客观性和理性的新信仰为特征的观点进行了细致分析，认为在数据化时代，不仅数字重要，对数字的感觉也很重要。我们基于（a）情感社会学和（b）日常生活社会学来进行此项研究，通过这样做，我们为数据社会学的发展做出了贡献。
This article highlights the role that emotions play in engagements with data and their visualisation. To date, the relationship between data and emotions has rarely been noted, in part because data studies have not attended to everyday engagements with data. We draw on an empirical study to show a wide range of emotional engagements with diverse aspects of data and their visualisation, and so demonstrate the importance of emotions as vital components of making sense of data. We nuance the argument that regimes of datafication, in which numbers, metrics and statistics dominate, are characterised by a renewed faith in objectivity and rationality, arguing that in datafied times, it is not only numbers but also the feeling of numbers that is important. We build on the sociology of (a) emotions and (b) the everyday to do this, and in so doing, we contribute to the development of a sociology of data.