title: Open-Access Crime Maps as Digital Rhetoric and Crime Reporting in Chicago: Using New Aesthetic Overlaps to Change Journalism and Citizen Interaction
abstract: When data mining meets the rhetoric of maps and crowdsourcing in the age of digital journalism, we can use the abundance of data to change, modify or reinforce particular reporting behaviors or journalism policies. We also live in an age of overlapping boundaries of technologies, algorithms and human interfaces---it is within these overlaps that we find anomalies, "glitches", and digital errata that can expose different perceptions of the same artifacts and algorithms. The overlapping of the het