Blind Maps and Blue Dots: The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information (Grootens Joost)(Paperback / softback)

On the ever-decreasing distinction between those who produce digital data, those who design its visualization and those who use it as a new form of cartographyMapmaking has been an essential part of human development since ancient times: through the art of cartography, people have been able to record geographical explorations and communicate spatial information in relation to themselves and the land around them, using fixed points and lived experiences as references. In the digital age, maps are just as likely to convey the relationships between individual users and amorphous data as they are to depict the relationships between human beings and the stars and planets above. Blind Maps and Blue Dots examines the impact of the omnipresent computer on current understandings of data visualization and graphic design, in which the boundaries between producers
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