Visualizing Ageing - Issue mapping for an ageing Europe

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Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe is a seminal guide to mapping social and political issues with digital methods. The issue at stake concerns the imminent crisis of an ageing Europe and its impact on the contemporary welfare state. The book brings together three leading approaches to issue mapping: Bruno Latour’s social cartography, Ulrich Beck’s risk cartography and Jeremy Crampton’s critical neo-cartography. These modes of inquiry are put into practice with digital methods for mapping the ageing agenda, including debates surrounding so-called ‘old age’, cultural philosophies of ageing, itinerant care workers, not to mention European anti-ageing cuisine. Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe addresses an urgent social issue with new media research tools.

Authors:
Richard Rogers is professor of new media and digital culture at the University of Amsterdam.
Natalia Sánchez Querubín is PhD candidate in new media at the University of Amsterdam.
Aleksandra Kil is PhD candidate in cultural studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Data Visualizations:

Stefania Guerra, Alessandro Dondero, Alex Piacentini, Giacomo Traldi

Cover:

Stefania Guerra

Ageing issue trends, where the size of the bubble represents frequency of mention

Anti-ageing food shopping list

Alternative version (not published)

NGO Issue Distribution by Country

Polish network of ageing NGOs

Top five ageing problems according to search engine results from all included countries

List of ageing issues and issue objects on U.K. Labour and Conservative Parties' websites

Network depiction of outlinks from the websites of the 14 UK members of AGE Platform Europe

Network depiction of outlinks from the websites of the 14 UK members of AGE Platform Europe,
colored by geolocation and resized according to quantity of websites hosted by country