1. five questions about
mapping attention
ethan zuckerman
@ethanz

2. photo by wilbanks, cc

4. shells represent islands
curved and diagonal lines represent ocean swells
Captain Winkler, 1901

5. “rebbelib”, “stick chart” or “shell chart”
Marshall Islands, circa 1900

6. “mattang” – smaller, square charts
used to teach the principles of navigating by ocean swells

9. what unseen forces
are most critical to map?

10. Rand McNally Area and population of the world 1890.

11. Map of telegraph connections
1891 Stielers Hand-Atlas, Plate No. 5

12. Steamship routes, American Express Company, circa 1900

13. detail from Rand, Mc.Nally & Co's official railroad map of the United States
with portions of the Dominion of Canada,the Republic of Mexico, and the West Indies, circa 1893

15. John O’Sullivan
Global Air Routes
2009

16. by Zurich University of Applied Sciences
using data from Flightstats.com

17. how do maps of flow
differ from maps of infrastructure?

18. Dr. Hsinchun Chen,
Dr. Daniel Zeng
Bioportal for Disease
Surveillance, 2011

20. Leo Bonnani
Sourcemap
Laptop origins (2009)

21. “In Transit” from Cabspotting
Stamen Design, using data from Yellow Cab

26. are flow maps inevitably
a form of surveillance?

28. New York Times
18m monthly

29. Huffington Post
80m monthly

30. Kalev Leetaru, et al., 2013

31. Taneja and Wu, 2013

32. Paul Butler, 2010

33. who, what and where
do we pay attention to?

34. Catherine d’Ignazio

37. follow bias
Nathan Mathias
Sarah Szalavitz

38. if we see flows of attention as
unjust, unhelpful or broken,
what should we do?

39. CIVIC
MEDIA