NEWS DIFFUSION This mapping is a means to dissect the elements that cloud the complete context of the story of Malala Yousafzai. The design is correlated to the affects of diffusion and inspired by actual scientific mappings of twitter diffusion. The specific references are found in Eytan Bakshy’s “Everyone’s an influencer: Quantifying Influence on Twitter.”
TUESDAY OCTOBER 9, 2012
Malala,
The vertical line is what we know to be linear, or are related to facts that are certain to have occured on the day of the incident. The diagonal lines are how the linear facts are perceived and become dissected into different “truths.”
A Pakistani Schoolgirl
a young Pakistani schoolgirl
Some perceptions appear abstract and others more predictable. The drawings emphasises the reader’s lack of presence. Although some things are known to have happened, the way it has happened is less transparent to the audience.
Shot
This mapping only covers one day, but following October 9, more images are added to show how different mediums can also play a part in reinterpreting a news story.
was shot
In the head
Neck
Shoulder
Face in the head
Tehrik-i-Taliban
Cowards
Barbarians
Radicals
Extremists
by the Tehrik-i-Taliban
Enemies Fundamentalists
Pashtuns
In a village
in a village
Tribe
Conservative in the north of Pakistan.
North Waziristan
SWAT Valley
Kyyber Pakhtunkhwa
Mingora
Pakistan
Leaving from
Walking to She was leaving from
Private school
All girls school school
Malala’s father, Ziauddin’s school Her public transportation:
A bus
A van on public transportation.
REFERENCES
* http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ebakshy/
KEY
TERMS
COMBINED TERMS OF/RELATING TO
LINEAR FACT TIMELINE
FACTS DISSECTED INTO REACTIONS AND/OR PERCEPTIONS