The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications

by Murray Dick

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262043823
• ISBN13: 9780262043823
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"