This excellent Twitter thread by Steven Seegel, author of Map Men is a good way to start a new year. Rather than show all 11 tweets, I will post some highlights. You can see the whole thread by clicking on the first tweet below.
10. Manifest Destiny Maps = ever common to school atlases & Wiki, making a serious comeback on alt/nationalist fringes. pic.twitter.com/WPID6EaQFG— Steven Seegel (@steven_seegel) December 26, 2018
Here's a map I posted without considering its possible implications of "problematic" populations.8. Pipelines Maps = as conventional "realist" reductions of everything to brute self-interest & geopolitics. pic.twitter.com/0VzguNX4QD— Steven Seegel (@steven_seegel) December 26, 2018
3. Multilingual Borderscapes Maps = zooming in on populations across borders as causative of "crisis," rather than as complex actors w/ each other on a normal basis. pic.twitter.com/pnTfDKc4ke— Steven Seegel (@steven_seegel) December 26, 2018
1. Hot Spot or "Crisis" Maps = clever alarmist #dataviz, designed to bait you into clicking, boil your blood, spark your visual outrage, sell copies in tomorrow's edition. pic.twitter.com/8ZeSzF5QtS— Steven Seegel (@steven_seegel) December 26, 2018
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