Book review: The Infographic: a history of data graphics in news and communications by Murray Dick

DiBella, Sam (2020) Book review: The Infographic: a history of data graphics in news and communications by Murray Dick. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (28 Jun 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications, Murray Dick offers a new cultural history of the infographic, tracing its emergence and development in Britain from the eighteenth century. The book succeeds in offering an account of an evolving media form, showing the infographic to be a contradictory tool, one developed to persuade select upper-class audiences that slowly became a form of mass communication, writes Sam di Bella.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform N Fine Arts > NE Print media P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Date Deposited:	24 Jul 2020 13:36
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:37
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105430

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