Faces between numbers: re-imagining theatre and performance as instruments of critical data studies within a liberal arts education
Windeyer R.C.
2019
Research in Drama Education
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10.1080/13569783.2019.1615873
As information literacy and data-driven program evaluations have become growing obsessions within academic institutions, how might liberal arts and humanities programmes engage students in both critical and creative explorations of contemporary human-data relations? Inspired by the variety of metaphors that currently shape human-data relations and an analysis of two recent theatre productions that employ data as dramaturgical material, this essay offers a speculative model for such classroom-based explorations. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Critical data studies; data Humanism; human-data Interaction; performance studies; theatre studies
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