Elena Aversa from Density Design is visiting the DANI Research Project and the Digital Media Lab during week 25 and she has kindly agreed to present some of her work at an informal brown bag seminar in the lab.
Time: 20th June 2024 from 12-13
Place: Digital Media Lab (room 42.1-01)
Title: The multimodal circulation of misleading infovis on social media platforms
Information visualisation (infovis) attracts considerable attention on social media platforms, especially during societal crises. Due to its rhetorical influence, it holds the power to mislead. Therefore, its circulation on social media platforms can amplify the impacts of information disorders, jeopardising citizens’ right to reliable information. My research explores the multimodal characteristics of misleading information visualisations that travel through social media platforms. The aim is to define a common ground for including infovis literacy within the panorama of digital media and information literacies. The presentation will focus on two classifications developed from the analysis of a collection of infovis shared online in the first months of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
All welcome – please share – no registration – bring your lunch