Opportunities

Alternative narratives for data activism and data literacy

This track investigates and explores ways to make visible the systems, infrastructures, and power relations that exist around the actors and entities that control and use personal data, in order to design communication artifacts that inform a broad public. Based on data and research, this track experiments with data visualization and narratives for engaging and informing diverse publics.  

Rather than giving specific topics, this line of research is open to students with like-minded interests and motivations.

Some example of previous thesis are:

research thesis

• Anna Gazza — Invisible Trails: Progettare narrative alternative per comunicare un’infrastruttura digitale complessa usando come caso studio le game app
• Francesca Granzotto  —  Crumbs: guida digitale alla petizione online. Laurea Magistrale Design della Communicazione. Politecnico di Milano, Design School.  
• Andrea Elena Febres Medina —  Interconnected : interrogating the Internet of Things and personal data opaque communication. 
• Rebeca Karina Vittorazo Medeiros —  The Language of Bolsonarism on Twitter. How to Find and Communicate the Populist Language of Bolsonarism on Twitter.
• María Cristina Pita  —  An atlas of gentrification : data-driven narratives across five European cities.
• Guilherme Appolinário —  Unveiling Platforms: Investigating and visualising lack of transparency and inequality in lean platforms.
• Lea Mara Fabiano  —  Nuova Propaganda. Narrative alternative per la digital literacy nell’ambito italiano della data–based propaganda.

consolidation thesis

• Tim Olbrich — Public Privacy: A counter archive to expose privacy through visual AI manipulation
• Federica Laurencio — What might the school of 2030 be like? Un esercizio di traduzione intersemiotica e rimediazione

For more information write to mariade.briones (at) polimi.it