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This article provides a first overview and typology of the emergent genre we term \u201cdigital political infographics.\u201d Informed by literature and theory about visualizations, political persuasion, interfaces, and digital sharing, we aimed to reveal the \u201cdata-politics\u201d unique to this expression form. A grounded analysis of 200 politically oriented infographics on Twitter yielded a two-dimensional typology relating to the narrative strategies and the interfaces underpinning users\u2019 engagement with data in this discursive format. An integrative evaluation revealed that digital political infographics are hybrid communicative forms, characterized by three influence trajectories between political persuasion, infographic conventions, and digital environments: \u201cpoliticizing\u201d infographic traits, \u201cinfographing\u201d political tactics, and creating a new common ground, featuring a rhetoric of \u201ctactile data experience.\u201d <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/1461444817750565","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,1,9]],"date-time":"2018-01-09T13:38:17Z","timestamp":1515505097000},"page":"3540-3559","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["Digital political infographics: A rhetorical palette of an emergent genre"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Eedan R","family":"Amit-Danhi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel"}]},{"given":"Limor","family":"Shifman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,1,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-1461444817750565","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/nature13422"},{"key":"bibr2-1461444817750565","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/ijpor\/edq009"},{"key":"bibr3-1461444817750565","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0002716212451428"},{"key":"bibr4-1461444817750565","unstructured":"Berger J, Milkman K (2010) Social Transmission, Emotion, and the Virality of Online Content. 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