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The Infographic - A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications (Hardcover)
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The Infographic - A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications (Hardcover)
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
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An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural
phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data
journalism. Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in
our everyday media diet, particularly in news-in print newspapers,
on television news, and online. It has been argued that
infographics are changing what it means to be literate in the
twenty-first century-and even that they harmonize uniquely with
human cognition. In this first serious exploration of the subject,
Murray Dick traces the cultural evolution of the infographic,
examining its use in news-and resistance to its use-from
eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism. He
identifies six historical phases of infographics in popular
culture: the proto-infographic, the classical, the improving, the
commercial, the ideological, and the professional. Dick describes
the emergence of infographic forms within a wider history of
journalism, culture, and communications, focusing his analysis on
the UK. He considers their use in the partisan British journalism
of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print media; their
later deployment as a vehicle for reform and improvement; their
mass-market debut in the twentieth century as a means of
explanation (and sometimes propaganda); and their use for both
ideological and professional purposes in the post-World War II
marketized newspaper culture. Finally, he proposes best practices
for news infographics and defends infographics and data
visualization against a range of criticism. Dick offers not only a
history of how the public has experienced and understood the
infographic, but also an account of what data visualization can
tell us about the past.
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