Misrepresenting COVID-19: Lying With Charts During the Second Golden Age of Data Design

IF 1.8 2区文学 Q3 BUSINESS

Journal of Business and Technical Communication Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1177/1050651920958392

Sara Doan

引用次数: 15

Abstract

In this second golden age of data design, digital affordances enable the news media to share occasionally misleading charts about COVID-19. Examining data visualizations about COVID-19 highlights three ways that charts can mislead viewers: (a) by displaying inadequate data, (b) by manipulating scales and visual distance, and (c) by omitting contextual labels needed to fully understand a chart’s message. This article provides takeaways for technical communicators about including and displaying adequate data, representing numbers consistently, and humanizing COVID-19’s effects.

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误导新冠肺炎：在数据设计的第二个黄金时代躺在图表上

在这个数据设计的第二个黄金时代，数字支持使新闻媒体能够偶尔分享有关COVID-19的误导性图表。通过对COVID-19数据可视化的研究，可以发现图表可能误导观众的三种方式:(a)显示不充分的数据，(b)操纵比例和视觉距离，以及(c)省略充分理解图表信息所需的上下文标签。本文为技术传播者提供了包括和显示充分数据，一致表示数字以及人性化COVID-19影响的要点。

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Journal of Business and Technical Communication Multiple-

CiteScore

5.10

自引率

18.20%

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期刊介绍： JBTC is a refereed journal that provides a forum for discussion of communication practices, problems, and trends in business, professional, scientific, and governmental fields. As such, JBTC offers opportunities for bridging dichotomies that have traditionally existed in professional communication journals between business and technical communication and between industrial and academic audiences. Because JBTC is designed to disseminate knowledge that can lead to improved communication practices in both academe and industry, the journal favors research that will inform professional communicators in both sectors. However, articles addressing one sector or the other will also be considered.