
Jessica Otis from George Mason University and Dagomar Degroot from Georgetown University discuss the intricate relationship between catastrophe and data through early modern sources.
Jessica Otis from George Mason University and Dagomar Degroot from Georgetown University discuss the intricate relationship between catastrophe and data through early modern sources.
What do we make of the quantifying impulse in response to danger? What of the affective affordances of putting danger in the form of numbers or visualizations? How do divides in data literacy set up stark material divides when data represents life-threatening dangers?