Week 8: Twitter Tuesday (Advocacy Project)

This week we furthered our knowledge on our advocacy project issue. At first I was in between ideas and couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do for this project and after last week, I found myself even more unsure. This week I decided to just pick one issue and do some statistical reseach on it to see what I wanted to do. I first picked to do puppy mills, the more research I did, the more horrified I became and the more compelled I felt to write about it for the advocacy project. Creating the infographic for puppy mills was a little hard just to find reliable statistics. I found myself scouring the pages of the United States Humane Society and multiple charity pages that had information about puppy mills. I used Canva to create my infographic and found it easy to navigate but hard to figure out what information was most important and if it flowed well together and emphasized the correct information. It gives a definition of what puppy mills are, looks at how many dogs have been produced and sold from this practice, how many puppy mills and still in operation, and the risks that puppy mills dogs encounter.I primarily used logos within my inforgraphic because I think it shows the true reality of this issue. I used figured and tiny pictures in order to convey more of the message and add interest to the infographic. Overall, the creation of it was interesting and helped me become more interested in the issue itself and helped me know what information is the most important to portray to viewers.

This picture is what I think the most influential multimedia item that I found. This picture shown in a Rolling Stones article show the inhumane conditions that puppy mill dogs are forced to endure. So many elements in this picture show the blatant disregard for any form of life and the gut wrenching feeling you get from seeing this picture really drives that point home. I would use this in my AP to give a visual to readers on the conditions that are being described are not an exaggeration and are not rare, these conditions of puppy mills are unregulated and many of them continue to be in operation today.