Data-driven Expansion of Dense Regions – A Cartographic Approach in Literary Geography

Reuschel, Anne-Kathrin; Piatti, Barbara; Hurni, Lorenz

doi:10.1179/1743277414y.0000000077

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“…By spreading space in the centre with increasing compression toward the edges of the map, the projection captures the spatial life of someone who lives and interacts in and around their settlement, with comparatively little travel beyond that (as originally intended). As a more complex example, a cartogram-based solution was proposed to emphasise a narrative setting, compressing areas where action does not take place [70]. A distortion of time could similarly take place, compressing a timeline to accommodate periods when action does not take place.…”

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confidence: 99%

Comic Strip Narratives in Time Geography

Moore

Nowostawski

Frantz

et al. 2018

IJGI

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Abstract:On the basis of a shared emphasis on time as well as space, this paper argues for introducing elements of comic art into cartography, specifically the mapped comic, with an illustrated strip literally plotted and placed in a 3D time geographic virtual world. This approach is situated within current initiatives regarding the relationship between cartography and art, given that comics are a type of sequential art. Two examples demonstrate that the approach succeeds as a way of representing the geometry of a story without compromising emotional content. Comic conventions neatly package narrative geography for visual deployment. An example demonstrating the expressiveness of comic art principles when applied to maps (maps as comics) is discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comic Strip Narratives in Time Geography

Moore

Nowostawski

Frantz

et al. 2018

IJGI

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“…Similarly, in the field of linguistics, GIS application is also usually limited to the observation of processes on the maps e.g. when analysing linguistic diversity (Lue berring et al, 2013), language variations (Je szenszky et al, 2017), or the space in literary works, as in the classic works by Moretti (2006Moretti ( , 2007 or in the case of the Atlas of European Novel (Hohensinner et al, 2013;Piatti & Hurni, 2009;Weber Reuschel et al, 2014). Alterna tively, we can simply investigate the spatial dimension of processes or phenomena by supplementing a corpus with geographical information, thus creating a geocorpus (Alves & Queiroz, 2015;Caquard, 2013;Smail et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Tell me where you are and I’ll tell you what you learn. Investigating hidden curricula using GIS analysis of place names in a case study of an English language textbook published in Japan

Wacławik,

Gozdawa-Gołębiowski

2023

Polish Cartographical Review

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The article aims to look for a way to geographically delineate the notion of target culture in the language textbook “The World We Live in” by Ogasawara et al. (2013) published in Japan for Japanese students and teachers. Looking at the textbooks as cultural artefacts, we identified geographical space within the scope of the sample textbook and analysed the pedagogical context the place names appeared in. By doing that we attempt to find the spatial bias of the book, which is a manifestation of values there inscribed, often called the “hidden curriculum”. The elaborated method, following a seminal study by Risager (2018), is an attempt to adapt the proposed content analysis of the textbooks into GIS tools in order to capture the geographic dimension of the content. The method serves as a stepping stone towards the creation of a model to analyse and identify the attitudes toward the cultural content of educational materials. This will not only enable a more authentic classroom experience responding to the needs of particular groups of students and teachers but also look for ways to make the textbooks more inclusive.

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“…Attention as a trope describes a range of design solutions that produce an "Isolation Effect," making one item stand out over others in a visual scene (Lidwell, Holden, and Butler 2010, 254). Commonly used techniques for focusing attention in cartography and visualization include highlighting features through the visual variables (e.g., Robinson 2011); applying annotations such as leader lines, f low arrows, appended geometric frames, opacity masks, numbering, call-outs, and labels (e.g., ; and creating dynamic changes through blinking/f lickering, panning/ zooming, and focus+context visualizations (e.g., Weber Reuschel, Piatti, and Hurni 2014). We provided additional discussion of these focusing attention techniques in Roth (2021) using the catch-all term visual accenting.…”

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Visual Storytelling with Maps

Song¹,

Roth

Houtman

et al. 2022

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Visual storytelling describes the communication of stories through illustrations, graphics, imagery, and video instead of, or in addition to, oral, written, and audio formats. Compared to their popularity and wide reach, empirical research on map-based visual stories remains limited. We work towards infilling this gap through an empirical study on data journalism, providing the first assessment of four emerging design considerations for visual storytelling with maps: story map themes and their constituent narrative elements, visual storytelling genres, visual storytelling tropes, and individual audience differences. Specifically, we recruited 125 participants to an online map study, requiring them to separately review two visual stories and respond to a series of free-response and Likert scale questions regarding their retention, comprehension, and reaction. We followed a 2×2×2 factorial design for the visual stories, varying their themes (US presidential campaign donations, US coastal sea-level rise), genres (longform infographic, dynamic slideshow), and tropes (color highlighting, leader lines), while holding other design dimensions constant. The story theme did not influence the participants’ total retention or comprehension, indicating that a three-act narrative and its constituent elements can be applied consistently and effectively across variable kinds of topics. Instead, genres and, to a weaker degree, tropes influenced total participant retention, pointing to the importance of intentional design in map-based visual storytelling. Participants overall performed better when the visual storytelling designs used longform infographics or “scrollytelling” (genres) to structure content and leader lines (tropes) to visually accent information. In contrast, the story theme influenced audience reaction, with participants feeling significantly more concerned about and upset with the US presidential campaign donations story compared to the US sea-level rise story. Individual audience differences by expertise, motivation, and prior beliefs also influenced participant reaction. Our study signals a need for establishing a research and education agenda on map-based visual storytelling in both cartography and data journalism.

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Data-driven Expansion of Dense Regions – A Cartographic Approach in Literary Geography

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Comic Strip Narratives in Time Geography

Comic Strip Narratives in Time Geography

Tell me where you are and I’ll tell you what you learn. Investigating hidden curricula using GIS analysis of place names in a case study of an English language textbook published in Japan

Visual Storytelling with Maps

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