Re-​​Reading Web 2.0 Infographics

We love our infograms, don’t we, the digerati, the twit­tering classes? These inform­a­tion graphics, or data visu­al­isa­tions. I don’t think there’s another field of the social sciences quite so keen on com­plic­ated graphs that half-​​​​explain them­selves and suggest trans­par­ency and half are a subtle appeal to the imagination.

Because these images are machine-​​​​generated, there’s a tempta­tion to believe

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