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author: Valentina Manchia (Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano, IT)
Mappare il virus. Strategie e pratiche di visualizzazione dei dati legate al fenomeno COVID-19
language: italian
publication date: October 2020abstract: Never as in these months of global pandemic emergency there has been a real explo- sion of data, numbers, statistics and views in an attempt to make the invisible visible: the COVID-19 virus.
This essay proposes to explore, with the tools of semiotics, the different communicati- ve and rhetorical strategies implemented by some visual artifacts to try to investigate the phenomenon through the visualization of data.
citation information: Valentina Manchia, Mappare il virus. Strategie e pratiche di visualizzazione dei dati legate al fenomeno COVID-19, "Ocula", vol.21, October 2020. DOI: 10.12977/ocula2020-37
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