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Title: Strategic Temporality: Information Types and Their Rhetorical Usage in Digital Election Visualizations
Other Titles: International Journal of Communication
Authors: Amit-Danhi, Eedan
Keywords: information
social
media
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: International Journal of Communication
Citation: Amit-Danhi, E. (2022). Strategic Temporality: Information Types and Their Rhetorical Usage in Digital Election Visualizations. International Journal Of Communication, 16, 25. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18500/3823
Abstract: Ideally, the prevalence of political data/information visualizations on social media would enrich political discourse with quality information. However, when examining the rhetorical role of information in visualizations, one must first typify information. A review of existing data/information typologies finds them incomprehensive; they omit visual and data-less information and disregard the temporal liminality of election periods. I thus rely on qualitative content analysis of 252 visualizations from the 2016 U.S. election to define the attributes of contemporary political information and explore its role in visualization rhetoric. I amend and amalgamate existing literature to create a typology of political information, which then I use to categorize the sample into two rhetorical modes (Unveiling hidden past/present realities, and Imagining possible futures) to create a second typology of visualized information-rhetoric. Overall, my findings reveal that candidates use temporality strategically to persuade while appearing to inform, as the facts of the election future are still pending.
URI: https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/8294
ISSN: 1932-8036
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