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What does this visualization (including caption) say about toxics?

Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 2:32am

This visualisation speaks to toxic discourses that can pose as 'progressive' but really conintue structural harms and injustices against particular parts of the population.

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Can you suggest ways to enrich this image to extend its ethnographic import?

Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 2:30am

I don't think the image needs to be enriched. It was too small for me to make out the handcuffs and the 'whites only' sign, but enlarging this section would make it impossible to show both images side by side. Describing these things in the caption was very effective in getting around this.

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What kind of image is this? Is it a found image or created by the ethnographer (or a combination)? What is notable about its composition | scale of attention | aesthetic?

Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 2:29am

The image is a cominbation of a found image and a created image, but I am unclear as to who created the second image.

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Can you suggest ways to elaborate the caption of this visualization to extend its ethnographic message?

Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 2:28am

The caption is extensive already, but I'd like to know who made the second visual (or did I overlook this?). I'd also like to know a bit more about Kenneth and Tane, who they are, how the researcher met them, what they do. It is probably out of the scope of this medium, but I also am interested to hear more reflection on the choice to bring this visual to 'a critical audience,' in terms of how seeing this disturbing visual affected interviewees, and if the project includes any channels of feeding back the second image and the responses of the critical audience to the City of Austin employees who use this slide, as well as their responses to the image and to the critique.

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How does this visualization (including caption) advance ethnographic insight? What message | argument | sentiment | etc. does this visualization communicate or represent?

Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 2:19am

This visualisation is particularly rich and includes contrasting images as well as an extensive caption that theorises but also brings in voices other than the author's. This is a powerful way of communicating the schisms occuring in Austin through contradictions between discourse and action on the part of the city, and the way this affects the residents that get excluded in the process.

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