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Infographics

2020: Winter Term

The Media Coverage of Health Issues: An infographic

Submitted
February 5, 2020
Published
2020-03-17

Abstract

While creating my infographic, I wanted to ensure that the content was clear, concise and had a clean layout. In order to do so I really had to use discernment on what would be appropriate and beneficial to include within the infographic because there was limited space and the article was quite long. I decided to break the article down into its most basic and core components and only incorporate those as a sort of guideline to follow while creating the graphic. I decided that it was less important to go into the nitty-gritty details of the avian influenza and the interviewing process and moreso focus upon the major issue that was being discussed within the article, which was the way media often fails on accurately reporting public health issues. Once laying out and presenting the major issue within the infographic I used the rest of my space to explain ways in which this issue could be improved upon as discussed by the article. I designed this infographic in a way that could be understandable to pretty much everyone. I did not use any jargon or go in-depth about scientific findings because I percieved the core of the argument to be around the issue of media coverage of public health issues. Looking at the avian influenza specifically within the article  was moreso a way to structure and focus the research methodology, so because of spatial constraints I made the decision to omit the specific findings of the avian influenza.