Public Literacies: A Data Visualization Prototype Project

CLAS Seed Grant     Profs. Long and Rose aim to build new knowledge at the intersection of three lines of cutting-edge public-literacies research in English studies. These lines — scholarship in participatory institutional design, local public engagement, and the interrelated concepts of deep alignment and sustainability — represent where community-university partnerships can navigate borders more justly. Just as political philosophers have shown how the language of political identity has created boundaries that threaten democratic civil debate, the lines of public literacy research show that the border between communities and universities can eclipse the public imagination. By building a data-driven prototype that circulates existing data and culls new data, Long and Rose intend to create a new tool for community-driven design that challenges the normative exclusionary practices of public talk.

This project was sponsered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Institute for Humanities Research.