Cartographie dans les médias / Cartography in the media
Publication Year: 1983
Published by: Presses de l'Université du Québec
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CARTOGRAPHIE DANS LES MÉDIAS / CARTOGRAPHY IN THE MEDIA
Preface/Préface
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pp. iii-
A strange thing happened during the 1986 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Cartographic Association. It is not that the sessions are normally staid - far from it, but all of a sudden the meeting rooms and corridors started buzzing. It turned out that the excitement was generated by the two sessions recorded in this publication. ...
Table des matières/ Table of contents
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pp. iv-vi
Presentation/Présentation
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pp. 1-4
Au cours de l’Histoire, les cartes contenant de l’information géographique ont été utilisées à des fins variées et diffusées auprès d’un public souvent restreint. Chez les Grecs, les cartes de Ptolémée n’intéressaient que quelques philosophes privilégiés. Les cartes produites par les Arabes ont été ignorées du monde occidental pendant plusieurs siècles. ...
Chapitre 1. Les cartes et les diagrammes dans les médias: réflexions générales et quelques exemples procédant de la graphique/ Maps and Diagrams in the Media: General Considerations and Some Examples Derived from La Graphique
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pp. 5-14
Sauf exceptions, la plupart des médias nord-américains, dont ceux du Canada, utilisent peu, et souvent avec maladresse, les graphiques (cartes et diagrammes) pour accompagner les articles, les nouvelles ou les reportages. C’est d partir de cette constatation que l’on doit se demander ce qui distingue, entre autres, ...
Chapitre 2. Approche théorique d'un savoir-faire graphique: étude de quelques produits graphiques des hebdomadaires nord-américains, Newsweek et Time / Theoretical Approach of Graphic Savoirfaire: Study of Several Graphic Productions Published by the Weekly Magazines Newsweek and Time
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pp. 15-32
Un savoir-faire se rapporte d une pratique professionnelle. Il renvoie également au fair que cette pratique est difficilement analysable, et qui aucun modèle théorique n’est suffisant pour décrire par exemple la suite de décisions caractérisant toute production graphique. ...
Chapitre 3. The Media Map Watch in United Kingdom / Essai d’évaluation des cartes dans les médias du Royaume-Uni
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pp. 33-48
The idea of a Media Map Watch in the United Kingdom arose from discussions in the Geographical Association about serious defects of map representation in the media. Members of all U.K. geographic and cartographic societies were invited to monitor for one month graphic presentation of geographical information ...
Chapitre 4. Un bilan des images graphiques (diagrammes et cartes dans la presse française, 1980-1986 / Graphics Evaluation (diagrams and maps) in the French Press, 1980-1986
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pp. 49-62
Place given to maps and particularly to diagrams is very limited in the press. Tackled topics are few in number : political events location, references to local life or to advertising take the first positions. Only the illustrative feature of graphics remains essential. A double evolution, contradictory, seems to exist at present: ...
Chapitre 5. Journalistic M: Background Requirements / La cartographie journalistique: formation préalable
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pp. 63-64
Maps in newspapers, magazines and on TV have a role to inform readers or viewers of events and places in the news. There are two important requirements for people who create maps for journalistic publications : a proper background in cartography and a good background in design. …
Chapitre 6. Some Comments on Mapmaking in Newsweek Magazine / Notes sur la cartographie dans le Newsweek Magazine
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pp. 65-76
Newsweek prints about 65-80 maps a year. Most of them are simple locator maps that show places mentioned in the articles they accompany. We rarely produce full page maps ; « A guide to Springfield » (fig. 1) was specially drawn for the magazine’s 50th anniversary issue. ...
Chapitre 7. Can Cartography be Sexy? New Directions in Magazine Cartography at the National Geographic Society / La cartographie peut-elle être « sexy » ? Nouvelles orientations dans cartographique dans le Magazine à la National Geographic Society
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pp. 77-82
Art directors on Madison Avenue can use sexy imagery to attract attention in the slick world of advertising. But what can cartographers at the National Geographic Society do to attract the reader’s attention in their attempts to communicate cultural and geographic information through the medium of journalistic cartography? ...
Chapitre 8. The Recall of Journalistic Maps and Other Graphics / La mémorisation et le rappel des cartes journalistiques et autres graphiques
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pp. 83-90
Research has shown that most people are able to recall only a very small percentage of the news items which they read in newspapers. Various researchers have stated, however, that maps and other graphics in the mass-media serve to attract reader’s attention and help them remember accompanying articles. ...
Chapitre 9. Table ronde sur la cartographie journalistique: transcription des débats / Panel on Journalistic Cartography: Transcript of the Discussions
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pp. 91-114
This part of the publication consists of the transcript of discussions that took place in a panel which brought academic and business people into contact. More than a dozen speakers expressed themselves with spontaneity and exchanged views, opinions and experiences on cartography in the media. ...
Bibliographie sur la cartographie journalistique / Bibliography on Cartography in the Media
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pp. 115-120
E-ISBN-13: 9782760522930
Print-ISBN-13: 9782760504837
Page Count: 130
Publication Year: 1983
