Let us start with an everyday story common to the world of internet users. It is April 2021 in
the United Kingdom. Thirty-year-old Lara is a healthy and active individual. In the evening …

An emerging activist tactic on visual-based social media such as Instagram, slideshow
activism adapts the production and consumption of political information to the logic of the …

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and 'flatten-the-
curve'line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repertoire of vaccines, people …

This article explores how newsmakers exploit numeric records in order to anticipate the
future. As this nascent area of data journalism experiments with predictive analytics, we …

Instagram infographics are a digital activism tool that have redefined action frames for
technology-facilitated social movements. From the 1960s through the 1980s, United States …

What visual features characterize online migration data visualizations, and what do they
suggest for the politics of representing migration and informing public attitudes? Audiences …

Data and data visualisations–in the forms of graphs, charts and maps–are becoming an
increasingly important feature of social, public and political life. Yet within existing …

This chapter is an overview of social semiotics as a productive framework for research on
data visualization. It provides conceptual instruments that can be used to explore the …

The relevance of the research is conditioned by the fact that the global challenges of the
digital revolution aggravate the dynamic problems faced by the humanities in one way or …

Employers increasingly seek employees with more sophisticated technical skills to meet the
changing global marketplace. A significant portion of political science graduates do not …