This project is now archived and was part of DDW20
Twelve Obituaries: coded and revisualized.
Hilary Short
‘Pre’ alludes to these roles being determined for us before our births and upheld/passed down through the family that teaches us (i.e. heteronormative patriarchy); ‘Occupy’ alludes to the oppressive value system that determines what is waged work and what is unwaged work (i.e. capitalism).
Six contemporary obituaries were selected for content analysis. Some were digitized PDFs of the newspaper, retaining its column format, others were HTML. Six ‘wife of’ obituaries were matched with their husbands, making 12 total.
Through a content anal
Reader as Analyst: guided reading.
Hilary Short
Color-coded Visual Structure.
Hilary Short
Twelve Subtitles: declarative phrases.
Hilary Short
Aggregating the Data: looking for patterns.
About Hilary Short
Hilary Short is a writer and designer. She graduated from Temple University (Philadelphia, PA, USA) with a B.A. in Sociology and from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a M.Des in Graphic Design. Within a feminist framework, her work considers the roles and structures in society and imagines other possibilities—highlighting the struggle between personal agency and pre-determinism.
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