Not cool. Connections aren't binary. At the least, they vary in strength. And when we're looking at the spread of ideas, memes and untruths, the context of the connection (social, professional, academic or whatever) is highly relevant.
So this is just another oversimplification of stuff with pretty drawings and music. That's pretty much what I hate about the Internet. And why nonsense tends to spread, to boot.
Not cool. Connections aren't binary. At the least, they vary in strength. And when we're looking at the spread of ideas, memes and untruths, the context of the connection (social, professional, academic or whatever) is highly relevant.
So this is just another oversimplification of stuff with pretty drawings and music. That's pretty much what I hate about the Internet. And why nonsense tends to spread, to boot.
Isn't it better to engage people and see some form of creativity even if not perfect? Easy to criticise harder to create. What would you do instead?
I’d write 10,000 words on whatever it was, rather than engaging animators. I do that all the time, and I do quite often employ designers to make stuff look prettier - but never to oversimplify.
Do you ever go to meetings where people with some level of expertise are discussing a nuanced topic to quite a high level of detail, and some knob has hired some other knob with a set of magic markers to draw facile illustrations of the topic on the walls? You’re trying to make a complex point and thankfully at least half the people there get it, and meanwhile the knob is drawing a cartoon man with a lightbulb over his head? That’s a good example of why creativity shouldn’t be allowed, not when there’s a useful point to be made. And the stuff about connections and networks is useful, and interesting, and worth covering properly, in tl/dr depth.
Yeah, I do get that, and it wouldn’t be a problem if it was just a simplification. I thought that portraying connections as non-variable stopped short of being helpful.
Next time I get invited to a workshop or whatever where some chancer with Rolf Harris’s doodling skills and probably the predilections to match is on scribe duty, you can go instead of me. You won’t like it.
This made me guffaw. I kinda want to go to the next meeting now, but with Theseus, so I can see him seethe.some chancer with Rolf Harris’s doodling skills and probably the predilections to match is on scribe duty
Just don't invite the doodlers.I’d write 10,000 words on whatever it was, rather than engaging animators. I do that all the time, and I do quite often employ designers to make stuff look prettier - but never to oversimplify.
Do you ever go to meetings where people with some level of expertise are discussing a nuanced topic to quite a high level of detail, and some knob has hired some other knob with a set of magic markers to draw facile illustrations of the topic on the walls? You’re trying to make a complex point and thankfully at least half the people there get it, and meanwhile the knob is drawing a cartoon man with a lightbulb over his head? That’s a good example of why creativity shouldn’t be allowed, not when there’s a useful point to be made. And the stuff about connections and networks is useful, and interesting, and worth covering properly, in tl/dr depth.
As complex things presented simply with pictures proved so popular, I'll give you another one
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/
Well, assuming the data behind that are correct, I'd say that's a decent way to use visuals to get a message across.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n11/andrew-ohagan/the-tower
Andrew O’Hagan looks at the causes of Grenfell and the response to it. It’s 17,000 words, but the issues involved are all complicated and the supporting facts need to be set out. There’s still long-form journalism on the internet which is free to air, demands to be read, and could never be summarised in a picture or a tweet.
I haven't had a chance to read it yet but I will.
This complaint to IPSO and LRB by one of the contributors should probably be read alongside it.