Ruckenstein in 2014 noted
“‘Significantly, data visualizations were interpreted by research participants as more ‘factual’ or ‘credible’ insights into their daily lives than their subjective experiences. This intertwines with the deeply-rooted cultural notion that ‘seeing’ makes knowledge reliable and trustworthy.’”
This is a great basis for the start of this project 3, as we are starting to look at what our data foot looks like and what it says about who we are. Ruckenstein is suggesting that the idea of data visualization can tell more about you than the actual subjective experience. This is to say that by looking deeper at our reflection we can see the hard facts of how we spend our time, what that data looks like. But how can we be sure we can trust our devices? Bridle brings up this point in 2011 very eloquently.
“Bridle found that he did not, in fact, remember all the places that the phone had registered him as visiting. The book of maps was not a representation of his experience, Bridle (2011) wrote, it was the experience of the phone itself”
I can relate to this personally because how many times are you using something like Facebook messenger to talk to someone, and it it also sending your address info too but the address is not where you are but a block down the street. This sort of approximation makes data visualization an interesting topic because there is a chance that some of this data is actually incorrect in a sense, or as Bridle puts it, “the experience of the phone itself.
Karl's Corner 