William L. Allen

TL;DR: It is argued that thinking about visualisations from a social semiotic standpoint, as this paper does, advances understanding of the ways that data visualisations come into being, how they are imbued with particular qualities and how power operates in and through them.

TL;DR: The authors examined coverage of immigration in the British national press, to see whether press portrayals of migrants provide a basis for these images of immigration underlying public attitudes, and found that these portrayals match public perceptions of migrants, with illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers as predominant depictions in broadsheet and tabloid newspapers.

TL;DR: The authors examine how categories of migration hold geopolitical significance, not only in how they are constructed and by whom, but also in the way they are challenged and subverted, by examining how the very concepts of "migrant" and "refugee" are used in different contexts, and for a variety of purposes, opening up critical questions about mobility, citizenship and the nation state.

TL;DR: It is proposed that Internet research should engage critically with data visualization, and it does so by focusing on how people engage with them, and this research suggests that research into visualization engagement can benefit from adopting qualitative approaches developed within media audience research.

TL;DR: It is argued that researchers, knowledge brokers and the public produce – as well as operate within – a complex visualisation space characterised by mutual, bi-directional connections.