five questions about mapping attention

ethan zuckerman@ethanz

photo by wilbanks, cc

shells represent islandscurved and diagonal lines represent ocean swells

Captain Winkler, 1901

“rebbelib”, “stick chart” or “shell chart”Marshall Islands, circa 1900

“mattang” – smaller, square chartsused to teach the principles of navigating by ocean swells

what unseen forces are most critical to map?

Rand McNally Area and population of the world 1890.

Map of telegraph connections1891 Stielers Hand-Atlas, Plate No. 5

Steamship routes, American Express Company, circa 1900

detail from Rand, Mc.Nally & Co's official railroad map of the United Stateswith portions of the Dominion of Canada,the Republic of Mexico, and the West Indies, circa 1893

John O’SullivanGlobal Air Routes

2009

by Zurich University of Applied Sciencesusing data from Flightstats.com

how do maps of flowdiffer from maps of infrastructure?

Dr. Hsinchun Chen, Dr. Daniel Zeng

Bioportal for Disease Surveillance, 2011

Leo BonnaniSourcemap

Laptop origins (2009)

“In Transit” from CabspottingStamen Design, using data from Yellow Cab

are flow maps inevitably a form of surveillance?

New York Times18m monthly

Huffington Post80m monthly

Kalev Leetaru, et al., 2013

Taneja and Wu, 2013

Paul Butler, 2010

who, what and wheredo we pay attention to?

Catherine d’Ignazio

follow biasNathan MathiasSarah Szalavitz

if we see flows of attention asunjust, unhelpful or broken,

what should we do?

CIVICMEDIA