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Conference: Chris W. Lane, Willful Wildlife: Animals in Persuasive Maps
Denver, Colorado,
USAOrganisation: Rocky Mountain Map SocietyPersuasive maps are those intended primarily to influence opinion or make a point rather than simply present objective geographic information. The designers of such maps want to send a message to the reader and they use various images to encode this meaning in their maps so that that reader will be able to decode those images and so understand their message. Images of animals are one of the very best ways to encode a message on a map, naturally drawing attention to themselves and the intended meanings generally readily understood by viewers. This lecture will look at how animals have been used on persuasive maps from the seventeenth century to the modern era in many clever, dramatic, and humorous ways.
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