title: Building on faults: How to represent controversies with digital methods.
abstract: In a previous article in this journal, I introduced Bruno Latour's cartography of controversies and I discussed half of it, namely how to observe techno-scientific controversies. In this article I will concentrate on the remaining half: how to represent the complexity of social debates in a legible form. In my previous paper, we learnt how to explore the richness of collective existence through Actor-Network Theory. In this one, I will discuss how to render such complexity through an original visualization device: the controversy-website. Capitalizing on the potential of digital technologies, the controversy-website has been developed as a multilayered toolkit to trace and aggregate information on public debates.
authors.affiliation: Médialab, France.
authors.forename: Tommaso
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Venturini
keywords: actor-network theory; cartography of controversies; digital methods; information visualization; public understanding of science; representations of science; scientific controversies; web cartography