Visual Risk Literacy in 'Flatten the Curve' COVID-19 Visualizations
| Autor: | Timothy R. Amidon, Alex C. Nielsen, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Daniel P. Richards, Sonia H. Stephens |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
medicine.medical_specialty History Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry Communication media_common.quotation_subject Public health 05 social sciences Internet privacy 050301 education 02 engineering and technology General Business Management and Accounting Literacy 020204 information systems Pandemic 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine Rhetorical question Risk communication Viral spread Business and International Management business 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 35:101-109 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4574 1050-6519 |
| Popis: | This article explores how “flatten the curve” (FTC) visualizations have served as a rhetorical anchor for communicating the risk of viral spread during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning from the premise that risk visualizations have eclipsed their original role as supplemental to public risk messaging and now function as an organizer of discourse, the authors highlight three rhetorical tensions (epideictic–deliberative, global–local, conceptual metaphors–data representations) with the goal of considering how the field of technical and professional communication might more strongly support visual risk literacy in future crises. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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