Abstract
In this paper, I explore the work of data journalist Mona Chalabi, whose data visualizations on Instagram represent a confluence of art, data, and online multimedia. Through her data visualizations, Chalabi makes use of the affordances of Instagram—its audience, its format, its interactivity—to bring to light various critical statistics about social justice issues. In bringing together Instagram and data journalism, Chalabi's data visualizations embody a bold and unique way of enacting digital social justice activism.
Highlights
Data, today, is akin to air: one inhales clicks and scrolls, exhales ads and cookies
IJournal, Vol 6, No 2, Mona Chalabi is a data journalist whose work operates at the intersection of two unlikely actors: Instagram and data journalism
Her posts are a confluence of art, data, and multimedia elements that come together to facilitate a unique kind of social justice activism
Summary
Abstract : In this paper, I explore the work of data journalist Mona Chalabi, whose data visualizations on Instagram represent a confluence of art, data, and online multimedia. Through her data visualizations, Chalabi makes use of the affordances of Instagram—its audience, its format, its interactivity—to bring to light various critical statistics about social justice issues. IJournal, Vol 6, No 2, Mona Chalabi is a data journalist whose work operates at the intersection of two unlikely actors: Instagram and data journalism. Her posts are a confluence of art, data, and multimedia elements that come together to facilitate a unique kind of social justice activism. By examining Instagram’s “gestalt” (Cara, 2019, p. 335), its content and its contexts, one can begin to understand the multilayered operation of Chalabi’s data visualizations
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