Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization
Via Huub Bellemakers: What everybody needs to know about data, pictures and their political influence.
Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization – information aesthetics
A great, short talk by TargetPoint’s VP and Director of Research, Alex Lundry, at DC Ignite. He addresses the issues of subjective messaging through visualization, the emergence of open data, some ideal data visualization tools, a set of quick lessons in graphic literacy, and a short list of recommended visualization books, all within the time span of 5 minutes.
Watch the movie below.
See also Political Chart Wars for more information about the subject. Via Sunlight Foundation Blog.
We could probably apply the same approach to Geert Wilders’ short film Fitna (Dutch) and of course Muslim Demographics. Political leaders, social movements and opinion leaders use visual rhetoric for the public representation and manipulation of their ideological messages by means of culturally recognizable symbols but (and this is the interesting part of chart wars) also by more abstract images conveying the message of chaos or order.
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