tangents

About tangents

tangents is a digital publication that synthesizes a wide array of information on contemporary issues into visual essays. Here’s why:

We’ve never had access to so much information and felt so uninformed.

With a fast paced, highly interconnected yet divisive world inherited, the nature of challenges has become increasingly complex. Simultaneously, the boom in telecommunication and IT is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, access to high quality information has never been easier. Yet, fuelled by the rise of social media use, an abundance of misinformation accompanies it generating a pile of noise.

Unfortunately, news reporting has been slow to respond to the inflow of information. Instead of synthesizing information to report on underlying societal issues, much of the ‘news’ report anecdotal events, adding to the information overload. As a result, often we don’t trust the news and struggle to stay abreast of fake or irrelevant news (see the report). At its worst, the current system is feeding us misleading or fake information. At its best, it is shallow reporting.

While some address these issues by providing in-depth coverage of complex issues, the result is lengthy reports (sometimes exceeding 10,000 words) which often require (at least) some prior knowledge of the topic - thus making it undigestible. The outcome, let’s face it, is that they often end up unread. The consequence is an uninformed society, with the exception of an elite few.

So, how could it be fixed? Without pretending to have all the answers, here are two things which could go a long way: - Getting to the heart of things, and - Storify to explain To find out how tangents does this, visit the about page on the website and read some of the articles!

Keywords

• Data Journalism
• Data Visualisation
• News
• Visual Essays

Address

• Headquarters

  AmsterdamNoord-Holland, Netherlands