Rosemary Lucy Hill
The political potential of numbers: data visualisation in the abortion debate
University of Leeds
data visualisation argued power change world implicitly better comes abortion sides make moral claims good visualisation conventions clean lines shapes simplify data lending rhetoric neutrality data whole story imperative therefore examine data visualisations used shape womens lives article draws findings persuasive data project google image scraper used locate abortionrelated visualisations circulating online images web locations data use social semiotically analysed understand visual rhetoric political use antiabortion groups likely use data visualisation prochoice groups thereby simplifying issue mobilising rhetoric neutrality argue data visualisations used hindrance womens access abortion critique visualisations needs come feminists article extends discussions data often reified objective showing rhetoric objectivity within data visualisation conventions harnessed work world potentially damaging womens rights