{"id":3684,"date":"2011-07-23T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donwaisanen.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2011-07-23T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T17:55:13","slug":"visualizing-politics-beyond-the-single-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2011\/07\/23\/visualizing-politics-beyond-the-single-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Politics Beyond the Single Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donwaisanen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Information-is-Beautiful-0013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donwaisanen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Information-is-Beautiful-0013-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Political Differences Chart\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-153\" \/><\/a>Recently covered in <em>The Guardian<\/em>, this visualization by David McCandless (author of \u201cInformation is Beautiful\u201d) quickly highlights the metaphoric and ideological networks of association between the left and the right. What strikes me the most is how it could be used as a criterion to get beyond \u201csingle-issue\u201d political conversations with others. If an issue like \u201cgun-control\u201d or \u201cthe environment\u201d were being raised, it could quickly segue the discussion into the metaethical (and narrative) commitments that underlie policy positions\u2013and perhaps the fissures in one\u2019s own views that don\u2019t fit the map at all. McCandless\u2019s chart provides a great example of the possibilities for visual rhetoric in our age. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently covered in The Guardian, this visualization by David McCandless (author of &ldquo;Information is Beautiful&rdquo;) quickly highlights the metaphoric and ideological networks of association between the left and the right. What strikes me the most is how it could be used as a criterion to get beyond &ldquo;single-issue&rdquo; political conversations with others. If an issue <a href=\"http:\/\/donwaisanen.com\/?p=152\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4626,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}