{"id":2518,"date":"2022-10-06T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2022-10-07T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:30:53","slug":"form-analysis-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/10\/06\/form-analysis-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Form Analysis &#8211; Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guide form I chose for this topic is an interactive map (page).<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/demos.mapbox.com\/scrollytelling\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/theirc.github.io\/watchlist2021\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Why this form? What are its features (stylistic, experiential)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For my theme Border, a map suits it best. This map divides content into many sections, providing space to organize the topic&#8217;s points. Moreover, the map itself is like background and is not interactive. It makes the web page look like a magazine page. So users should focus on the content provided by the author instead of exploring the map to unexpected places.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">How is this form typically used, and what do you plan to subvert\/imitate\/utilize?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This map is often used to tell stories in a geographic context. The press adopts the form covering population&#8217;s demographics, the environment, an international conflict, etc.<\/li>\n<li>I would add buttons in the text area to allow users to jump between sections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">What would change if you tried a different form? What critical lens does the form you\u2019re applying emphasize?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I tried a static map, I had to organize all content on the same page, which requires more typography skills.<\/li>\n<li>It provides a lens of countries or regions. It&#8217;s an up-to-down angle if we talk about specific things. For example, how do international relations affect people, and how does geography affect the government&#8217;s decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Is there a metaphor well-suited to your form (i.e. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">cooking with code<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">)? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">Or, are there other metaphors you might employ?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A map is already a visual metaphor, for it is a guide itself. A metaphor suited to a map can be a map on which countries are topic items.<\/li>\n<li>If we imagine areas as dishes, &#8220;season dishes&#8221; is like &#8220;power the country&#8221;. Thus I compare salt to power.<\/li>\n<li>(From the dishes metaphor above, a quote comes to my mind: &#8220;Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish &#8212; Tao Te Ching&#8221; (\u6cbb\u5927\u56fd\uff0c\u82e5\u70f9\u5c0f\u9c9c)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guide form I chose for this topic is an interactive map (page). Examples: https:\/\/demos.mapbox.com\/scrollytelling\/ https:\/\/theirc.github.io\/watchlist2021\/ &nbsp; Why this form? What are its features (stylistic, experiential) For my theme Border, a map suits it best. This map divides content into many sections, providing space to organize the topic&#8217;s points. Moreover, the map itself is like&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/10\/06\/form-analysis-salt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Form Analysis &#8211; Salt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}