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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 |
Appears in Collections: | Documentos internacionales sobre libertad de expresión y derechos conexos |
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