The Many Tendrils of the Octopus Map

要旨

Conspiratorial thinking can connect many distinct or distant ills to a central cause. This belief has visual form in the octopus map: a map where a central force (for instance a nation, an ideology, or an ethnicity) is depicted as a literal or figurative octopus, with extending tendrils. In this paper, we explore how octopus maps function as visual arguments through an analysis of historical examples as well as a through a crowd-sourced study on how the underlying data and the use of visual metaphors contribute to specific negative or conspiratorial interpretations. We find that many features of the data or visual style can lead to "octopus-like" thinking in visualizations, even without the use of an explicit octopus motif. We conclude with a call for a deeper analysis of visual rhetoric, and an acknowledgment of the potential for the design of data visualizations to contribute to harmful or conspiratorial thinking.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Eduardo Puerta
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Shani Claire. Spivak
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Michael Correll
Northeastern University, Portland, Maine, United States
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713583

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713583

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Social Media and Society

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