It may be useful to read the visual rhetoric surrounding the Arizona shootings. Clearly, the Palin target maps are receiving several forms of scrutiny. This morning, I came across what seems to operate in a fairly conventional mode of representing a tragedy -- an infographic, which includes a timeline accompanied by images that highlight specific sites and events. To begin analyzing this infographic, we might ask:
- What images are privileged?
- What text -- what information is highlighted?
- What special emphases are generated? (using color, bold fonts, directional lines, etc.)
- How is the information arranged in the frame? (consider Wysocki, esp red box #2)
- What information is de-emphasized, hidden, or absent?
- What seems to be missing? (key terms, events, etc.)
- Who is generating this infographic?
- What is the purpose of the infographic?
- What can we speculate about the audience for this infographic (in terms of several identity markers such as group or political affiliation, education, socio-economic factors)?
- How do we imagine the relationships in this rhetorical situation?
- How might this have been more useful? Less useful?
- How would you recreate this infographic? Why?
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