Picturing Information

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Education

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• video
• blog
• statistics
• representation
• information
• media
• newspapers

[nbwulf]

Do you think the expression on the child's face has anything to do with the fact that the 2 authors are women?

[AnthroVlog]

What do you think?

[AnthroVlog]

I'm not sure. It's hard to know, given the many different people involved in putting a paper together, such as editors.

[nbwulf]

I just thought I'd toss it out there that perhaps the child's facial expression was based on the fact these 2 women (perhaps mothers) are having to leave their kids behind during the day to work. Either way...the article makes ya think.

[AnthroVlog]

Yeah. That is interesting. Keen of you to notice.

[vkuhn]

I love your class-based reading of this and also think there is a racially charged one as well--the diagram seems to carry some stereotypes that I think they are trying to fight (e.g. child is dark but with blue eyes, mom is varying skin colored--based on her level of work outside the home?--with black hair in a bob cut). Normally I would love to see the middle class white woman profile complicated but, as you point out, given the anxiety of the whole thing, I am less sure. Nice work!

[SmilingMoonBreeze]

Longitudinal study produces good cross sectional statistics that can be used as a research topic like: which kids are more happy and healthy? working moms kids or notworkingmoms kids? I will check now if there exists an article like that. Thanks for sharing this video. As for the media bit. Media is corrupt and biased most of the times.

[ladydawn1973]

This is very good..good point that you made about the mom being faceless. we have U.S.A today here in Sweden :).. anyway you are right about the fact that really women feel unnoticed. and status priority is apparent here.

[hausenharry]

you bring the newspaper to life!

thank you so very much!

[alicewantstoknow]

great comment on this statistique i also notice it says in the bottm of the pic that this is a longitudinal survey but it gives results for only a certain date and doesn't show the changes happening over time