Keberagaman Makna Pembaca: Analisis Resepsi Infografis Media Online Tirto.id

The lack of reading interest in Indonesia has prompted the media to adopt more creative approaches in delivering news, including the use of infographics. Tirto.id is an online media outlet that utilizes infographics as a means of presenting news. This study specifically focuses on examining the reception of readers when consuming Tirto.id infographics. The research methodology employed is qualitative research using Stuart Hall’s reception analysis approach. Reception analysis enables a deeper understanding of the various meanings that readers derive when consuming media, as well as the factors influencing the divergent interpretations among readers. Data for the study was obtained through interviews with six readers or followers of Instagram Tirto.id and selected to represent diverse backgrounds in terms of occupation, gender, age, and geographic location. The findings of the study indicate that four informants found the presence of infographics beneficial in facilitating their understanding of the news content. However, two informants expressed the need for the inclusion of quantitative data in the infographics, rather than relying solely on lengthy narratives. Hence, it was suggested that a combination of visual and numerical information be utilized. Furthermore, the six informants displayed varied interpretations and responses to the infographics based on their social backgrounds. In the case of the Cerdas Belum Tentu Kritis infographic: one response was categorized as dominant-hegemonic, three as negotiated, and two as oppositional. In the case of the infographics chosen by the informants: three responses were classified as dominant-hegemonic, and three as oppositional. Keywords: infographics, Tirto.id, reception analysis, Stuart Hall, diversity of meaning

A Classification of Infographics

Classifications are useful for describing existing phenomena and guiding further investigation. Several classifications of diagrams have been proposed, typically based on analytical rather than empirical methodologies. A notable exception is the work of Lohse and his colleagues, published in Communications of the ACM in December 1994. The classification of diagrams that Lohse proposed was derived from bottom-up grouping data collected from sixteen participants and based on 60 diagrams. Mean values on ten Likert-scales were used to predict diagram class. We follow a similar methodology to Lohse, using real-world infographics (i.e. embellished data charts) as our stimuli. We propose a structural classification of infographics, and determine whether infographics class can be predicted from values on Likert scales

Architecture and Visual Narrative

Architecture communication tools have been implemented in recent history by strategies and narrative artifices imported from cinema, comic, photo-journalism and infographic. The architect has integrated the traditional encoded drawing with more extensive narrative artifacts to expand the basin of its interlocutors and to describe underestimated aspects of architecture and design process. Through the illustration of recent significant experiences, this paper intends to highlight the great variety of images that can be attributed today to architecture and the lack of proper attention on this production by Visual Studies

Taking Afrobarometer Data Everywhere

According to statistics gathered by research group Afrobarometer, many countries in Africa lack infrastructure and basic necessities. In fact, Afrobarometer knows the specific rates of need and availability sampled across thirty-six countries but more prosperous African countries do not know these numbers. These more developed countries are in a position to help their less fortunate neighbors if only made aware of the social and economic climate in the respective areas. Our partnership with Afrobarometer will allow us to advertise these statistics through the use of a mobile application. The data will be displayed in a way that is easy for the average reader to digest and understand. By exposing a larger African audience to the results from these public opinion surveys, Afrobarometer hopes to inspire these people to take action and make donations to the appropriate social benefit groups. The countries represented by the surveys can then receive help in the areas expressing need

Next Generation Evaluation: Embracing Complexity, Connectivity, and Change

This Learning Brief draws from literature and research, as well as more than a dozen interviews with foundation leaders, evaluation practitioners, and social sector thought leaders, with the intention of starting the conversation in the field around Next Generation Evaluation characteristics and approaches

El uso de infografías para mejorar las habilidades de comprensión de lectura en estudiantes

This article describes a pedagogical intervention carried out at a public university in Colombia. A total of 26 psychology students, aged between 19 and 26 years old, taking English classes for academic purposes, and in their fourth semester, participated in this study. This intervention was implemented for an academic semester and aimed to help learners develop their English reading skills—from literal to critical comprehension of short academic texts— through the use of infographics, which are visual tools that combine texts and graphs to help users communicate information. Teachers used students’ infographics to assess their understanding of short academic texts in English, and they interviewed students to learn their opinions on the intervention. Further, teachers implemented a colour-coding technique in interview transcripts to show relevant patterns in the student opinions. This data analysis indicated that the students clearly understood the ideas from the texts because they were able to go beyond reading to dynamise information in the infographics while using the visual aids as mediators in expressing their ideas. In conclusion, the infographics were beneficial in developing the students’ reading skills. They presented an opportunity for the students to paraphrase main ideas from the texts and represent their understanding of the readings. In addition, this pedagogical intervention was useful for teachers because it enabled them to explore reading comprehension using a new strategy that might be helpful in English classes.Este artículo describe una intervención pedagógica realizada en una universidad pública de Colombia. Un total de 26 estudiantes de psicología, de entre 19 y 26 años de edad, que tomaban clases de inglés con fines académicos, y que cursaban su cuarto semestre, participaron en este estudio. Esta intervención se implementó durante un semestre académico y tuvo como objetivo ayudar a los estudiantes a desarrollar sus habilidades de lectura en inglés (desde la comprensión literal hasta la comprensión crítica de textos académicos cortos), mediante el uso de infografías, que son herramientas visuales que combinan textos y gráficos para ayudar a los usuarios a comunicar información. Los profesores utilizaron las infografías de los estudiantes para evaluar su comprensión de textos académicos cortos en inglés, y entrevistaron a los estudiantes para conocer sus opiniones sobre la intervención. Además, los profesores implementaron una técnica de codificación por colores en las transcripciones de las entrevistas para mostrar patrones relevantes en las opiniones de los estudiantes. Este análisis de datos indicó que los estudiantes entendieron claramente las ideas de los textos porque fueron capaces de ir más allá de la lectura para dinamizar la información en las infografías y utilizar las ayudas visuales como mediadores para expresar sus ideas. En conclusión, las infografías fueron beneficiosas para el desarrollo de las habilidades de lectura de los estudiantes. Presentaron una oportunidad a los estudiantes para parafrasear las ideas principales de los textos y representar su comprensión de las lecturas. Además, esta intervención pedagógica fue útil para los profesores porque les permitió explorar la comprensión lectora utilizando una nueva estrategia que podría ser útil en las clases de inglés

A Cognitive, Socio-semiotic, Linguistic, and Discursive Approach to Popularisation Strategies in Infographics

Information graphics or infographics are multimodal discursive spaces created by the combination of data and information visualisation, typography and colour. As effective forms of information communication and popularisation, infographics are frequently used by international organisations and government bodies as a means of popularising complex topics linked to health, food safety, politics, business and the environment. In this paper, Ciuccarelli\u2019s 2012 concept of the visual macroscope is adopted as an interpretative lens on a small corpus of infographics from the World Health Organisation, together with the tools of socio-semiotic, linguistic and discursive analysis, applied in a bottom-up approach. From a socio-semiotic perspective, it is seen that layout, pictorials, colour, typography and the order of information combine to make the Ideal and the Real (Kress, van Leeuwen 1996) stand out; from a linguistic and discursive point of view, thematic organisation interacts with pictorial organisation to make salient information emerge; lexical repetition, unmarked declaratives, and constant theme enact the strategy of explanation, frequently used in popularisation discourse

Getting Graphic About Infographics: Design Lessons Learned from Popular Infographics

People learn and remember more efficiently and effectively through the use of text and visuals than through text alone. Infographics are one way of presenting complex and dense informational content in a way that supports cognitive processing, learning, and future recognition and recollection. But the power of infographics is that they are a way of delivering the maximum amount of content in the least amount of space while still being precise and clear; because they are visual presentations as opposed to oral or text presentations, they can quickly tell a story, show relationships, and reveal structure. The following paper reports on an exploration of top 20 “liked” infographics on a popular infographic sharing website in an effort to better understand what makes an effective infographic in order to better prepare graduate students as consumers and designers of infographics. The paper concludes with recommendations and strategies on how educators might leverage the power of infographics in their classrooms

Parting A Read Sea Of Images: An Exploration Of Field Dependent-Independent Responses To Minimalist, Pictographic And Infographic Data Displays

ABSTRACT Western society reflects an âeikoncentric eraâ when contemporary instruction has become image -centered. Textbooks, journals, popular media as well as computer-based and web- based instructional media are filled by pictures that are intended to accomplish learning. Imagery is widely believed to represent an efficient, understandable method for relaying information and clarifying instruction for nearly all learners. However, those who subscribe to the adage âa picture is worth a thousand wordsâ often fail to acknowledge individual differences in visual comprehension and cognition. The field dependent-independent (FDI) cognitive style describes individual learner differences that can thwart visual learning. Information graphics are among the frequently used types of imagery that portray data. There is little empirical evidence to guide their design, and their creation is often based on intuition or opinion. This study researched the ways FDI learners comprehend and aesthetically assess minimalist information graphics, pictograms and infographics. Those participants who represented the most extreme field-dependent or field-independent learners were invited to participate in a two-part study. An instrument named the Comparative Information Graphic Test (CIG-T) was developed for testing comprehension of and perceived aesthetic efficacy, value and preference for minimalist information graphics, pictograms and infographics by FDI learner

Blitar’s indigenous knowledge promotion through local content collections at Blitar Public Library

The public library is one of the institutions that have the function and task of preserving indigenous knowledge. Recorded in the form of collections stored in the library's local content service consist of printed books, e-books, and audio-visual collections use social media, especially Instagram, can facilitate the dissemination of indigenous knowledge information to local content collections in public libraries. This study aimed to produce media to promote Blitar's indigenous knowledge in the form of infographics with information sourced from the local content collection at the Blitar Public Library. Research method used development method and the Four-D development model with product development stages consisting of defining, designing, developing, and distributing. Respondents in this study were the people of Blitar, media promotion experts, material experts, and expert practitioners (librarians). In this study, product trials were carried out on three aspects consist of material, visual, and language. Based on the trials and validity tests results, it concludes that Blitar's local content promotion media products in the form of infographics are suitable for use with revisions. Blitar local wisdom infographics increase the reach by maximizing the use of hashtags and scheduling infographic uploads at the best times. Local content promotion media products in infographics form produced in this development research are quite good.  However, there needs to be some improvement especially on material aspect.  The material that was carried did not represent all local wisdom topics in Blitar