I chose to look at the Mapping Decadence project that focused on using maps to show that the geographical proximity of Decadent writers contributed to their writing. One thing I noticed immediately was that the map only displayed France and writers in France. A quick Google search showed me that Decadent writers and the movement extended throughout western Europe. Additionally, there were many more Decadent writers than the few listed. I think this project assumes that the readers knows a lot more information than they provide about the movement, the writers, and their relationships to the publishers, and the website and maps provide very little information to tell you about these things.<\/p>\n
As discussed in class, maps are subjective based on what information the analysts see as important to display. This map is subjective in that it says that only the relationships between writer and publisher are important in relation to proximity, however there are many other ways this dataset could be displayed. Perhaps writers from similar geographical areas write in similar ways or use the same phrases. Additionally, the focus on the French area, paired with the lack of additional information on the website, strongly suggests that the Decadent movement was singular to a small part of France.<\/p>\n
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I would like to see an alternate map that plots out every writer in the data set, perhaps somehow showing more emphasis on the more prolific or better-known authors, and then an option to zoom in to view the publisher relations with a few specific ones if there is too much data to see maps for all of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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