Migration Maps with the News

Adams, Paul C.

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2017.1375387

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“…584-85). To achieve this, some designers have explicitly highlighted and celebrated normative purposes of visualization that aim to make a difference, producing visualizations that emphasize narrativity and non-linearity (Risam, 2019) and challenge the ubiquity of national sources of migration data (Adams, 2018). Another way of "doing" visualization differently involves making design conventions explicit to users: Vermeulen et al (2020) and Kennedy and Allen (2017) demonstrate this approach by placing modified versions of published data visualizations that intentionally disrupt established conventions alongside their original forms.…”

Section: Visualization As a Genre Within Digital Migration Studiesmentioning

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The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations

Allen

2021

New Media & Society

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What visual features characterize online migration data visualizations, and what do they suggest for the politics of representing migration and informing public attitudes? Audiences increasingly encounter quantitative information through visualization, especially in digital environments. Yet visualizations have political dimensions that manifest themselves through “conventions,” or shared symbols and practices conveying meaning. Using content analysis, I identify patterns of representation in a sample of 277 migration data visualizations scraped from Google Images. I find evidence of several conventions including appeals to objectivity and traceability as well as perspectives and units of analysis centered on states—particularly higher income migrant destinations. Then, by locating my analysis within the growing field of digital migration studies, I argue these conventions potentially shape public attitudes and understandings about migrants, and contribute to broader migration politics involving categorization and quantification that have relevance both on- and off-line.

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Section: Visualization As a Genre Within Digital Migration Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations

Allen

2021

New Media & Society

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Visual Journalism

Gynnild¹

2019

The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies

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This entry provides an overview of the field of visual journalism and its major dimensions and future directions. In its broadest sense, visual journalism refers to the communication conveyed through the overall design of a platform or a site. More often, visual journalism refers to specific dimensions of visual storytelling across platforms, such as photos, videos, animations, and data visualizations, or it simply refers to the modalities of multimedia storytelling. The conceptual framing of visual journalism has varied throughout media history and has been closely interrelated with technology development. The entry includes a brief discussion of ethical challenges prompted by evolving technologies such as smartphones, camera drones, and virtual reality tools, which all exemplify increasing options for user interaction within visual journalism.

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