Document Type
Introduction
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Film has in the broader sense always been concerned with visualization. But in the digital age, visualization is taking on a very specific meaning: the visual representation and analysis of processes over time. The application of visualization techniques to narrative and narrative techniques is transforming the way in which we perceive and represent the world. The sheer availability of cameras and the many different technological forms which we have available to visually represent narratives or to record information in a form, from which narratives can be deduced or interpreted, means that as a society we are suddenly faced with a surfeit of visualizations. Every minute, ten hours worth of digital footage is uploaded to YouTube and it's all available in one place – or rather, in the infinite number of points that any one of millions of laptops can use to access the internet. These visualizations exist in an ever-increasing feedback loop of visualization and refraction, as the visualizations are themselves subject to visualization, and the data is teased to reveal its embedded narratives.
Repository Citation
Ganz, Adam. "Visualization and Narrative." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 3, 2008, pp. 1–3. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss3/1