Journal of Social Structure · 2000 · 648 citations · 17 references
ComputingVisualizationInformation VisualizationNetwork VisualizationScientific VisualizationImage StudiesSocial Network AnalysisScientific Data Visualization
Visual images are widely used across scientific disciplines and are considered essential for progress. Crosby argues that visualization, alongside measurement, is one of only two factors driving the explosive development of modern science.
The use of visual images is common in many branches of science. And reviewers often suggest that such images are important for progress in the various fields (Koestler, 1964; Arnheim, 1970; Taylor, 1971; Tukey, 1972; Klovdahl, 1981; Tufte, 1983; Belien and Leenders). The historian Alfred Crosby (1997) has gone much further. He has proposed that visualization is one of only two factors that are responsible for the explosive development of all of modern science. The other is measurement.
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Linton C. Freeman, Dougľas R. White · Sociological Methodology · 1993 · 180 citations · Full text