Tugsbayar Batbayar: Master’s Thesis Defense

The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies would like to invite you to the following talk in our DH Colloquium:

Tugsbayar Batbayar: »Development of a framework and application for encountering super complex problem fields on the basis of dark ecology (DEBADTE) and their evaluation (Master’s Thesis Defense)«

Abstract

The COVID-19-Pandemic defined the beginning of the 2020s. Originating in Wuhan, it would paralyze the world´s societies and kill between 7 to 20 Million people. The population´s response to the pandemic was highly divergent and resulted in numerous unpredictable developments of its own. Getting an overview poses still a great challenge and demonstrates the limits of human cognition. This thesis discusses the conception, realization and evaluation of an abductive driven interface prototype based on Dark Ecology. The aim is to scale up qualitative sense-making abilities through the creation of working hypotheses regarding the COVID-19-pandemic as a hyperobject. Within the visualization, the user is able to explore a projected graph network of the imagined hyperobjectal mesostructure and reflect on their possible semantic content. This is achieved through careful diagrammatical design considerations and the multi-modal statistical analysis of the given media landscape. This test sample it is made up of data sets from the Fürther Presseamt as well as the coronarchiv.

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