2021
DOI: 10.1108/s0733-558x20210000074027
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Abstract: The visualization of ranking information in global public policy is moving away from traditional "league table" formats and toward dashboards and interactive data displays. This paper explores the rhetoric underpinning the visualization of ranking information in such interactive formats, the purpose of which is to encourage country participation in reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals. The paper unpacks the strategies that the visualization experts adopt in the measurement of global poverty and wellb… Show more

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“…Visuals and images can be instrumental for the engagement with grand challenge topics in virtue of how they can "speak" to us and sensitize us to issues in a more direct manner compared to other semiotic resources, such as text or numbers (Ronzani & Gatzweiler, 2021;Quattrone, Ronzani, Jancsary, & Höllerer, 2021;Barberá-Tomás, Castelló, de Bakker, & Zietsma, 2019). For instance, interactive visuals haven been shown to work as powerful engines for the engagement with the sustainable development indicators by bringing to life abstract and technical concepts, and prompt collective problem identification and action (Bandola-Gill, Grek, & Ronzani, 2021). Visuals can also connote objects, actions, and relationships in ways that appeal to the senses and people's imagination, thereby allowing the construction of novel and potentially unexpected visibilities on social and organizational phenomena that can generate reflection (Quattrone et al, 2021).…”
Section: Implications For Learning On Grand Challengesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Visuals and images can be instrumental for the engagement with grand challenge topics in virtue of how they can "speak" to us and sensitize us to issues in a more direct manner compared to other semiotic resources, such as text or numbers (Ronzani & Gatzweiler, 2021;Quattrone, Ronzani, Jancsary, & Höllerer, 2021;Barberá-Tomás, Castelló, de Bakker, & Zietsma, 2019). For instance, interactive visuals haven been shown to work as powerful engines for the engagement with the sustainable development indicators by bringing to life abstract and technical concepts, and prompt collective problem identification and action (Bandola-Gill, Grek, & Ronzani, 2021). Visuals can also connote objects, actions, and relationships in ways that appeal to the senses and people's imagination, thereby allowing the construction of novel and potentially unexpected visibilities on social and organizational phenomena that can generate reflection (Quattrone et al, 2021).…”
Section: Implications For Learning On Grand Challengesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A powerful driver of these processes is “data inertia,” or a blind acceptance of ranking numbers that are difficult to verify (Bandola-Gill et al, 2021: 6). As a result, benchmarks stimulate the self-regulating behavior of international actors under the pressure of status seeking (Porter, 2020) and operate as exogenous drivers of behavioral change (Kwon and Easton, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Though the project employed deep mapping to “find rigorous, verifiable, and explicit ways” to engage with the ideas of museum soft power more critically and even contextually, it is important to admit that it still possesses “attendant subjectivities, partial knowledges, and positionalities” (Knigge and Cope, 2006: 2026). To address these problems, the deep mapping design allows for a certain degree of “customization” enabling users “to choose different value dimensions in accordance with their own preferences” in terms of a research question they intend to address (Bandola-Gill et al, 2021: 26). The application MSPM provides flexible interactive functions that a user can employ to explore different components of soft power depending on their research interests.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Despite these valuable developments in understanding how laypeople encounter and engage with visualisations, much less work has applied a similarly critical lens to the uses of visualisation in policy making domains. One important exception argues that visualisations of countries’ rankings on various global metrics can serve as ‘alignment devices’ (Bandola-Gill et al, 2021) that draw policymakers’ attention around specific issues. Even so, this gap is surprising, given the growth of attention—and resources—directed towards visualisation for and by policy audiences, often with the express goal of influencing decisions.…”
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confidence: 99%