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Graphesis : visual forms of knowledge production
- Title
- Graphesis : visual forms of knowledge production / Johanna Drucker.
- Author
- Drucker, Johanna, 1952-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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- Description
- 215 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm
- Summary
- Graphesis provides a descriptive critical language for the analysis of graphical knowledge. In an interdisciplinary study fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Drucker outlines the principles by which visual formats organize meaningful content. Among the most significant of these formats is the graphical user interface (GUI), the dominant feature of the screens of nearly all consumer electronic devices. Because so much of our personal and professional lives is mediated through visual interfaces, it is important to start thinking critically about how they shape knowledge, our behavior, and even our identity. Drucker makes the case for studying visuality from a humanistic perspective, exploring how graphic languages can serve fields where qualitative judgments take priority over quantitative statements of fact. Graphesis offers a new epistemology of the ways we process information, embracing the full potential of visual forms and formats of knowledge production.
- Series Statement
- MetaLABprojects
- Uniform Title
- MetaLABprojects.
- MetaLABprojects
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 215).
- Contents
- Image, interpretation, and interface -- Windows. Walter Crane's tree -- Gestalt diagrams -- Graphic variables -- Making connections -- Modelling vision -- Information visualizations -- Interface design -- The "book" of the future -- Interpreting visualization/Visualizing interpretation -- Interface and interpretation -- Designing graphic interpretation.
- Call Number
- JQD 15-132
- ISBN
- 9780674724938 (alk. paper)
- 0674724933 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013050669
- OCLC
- 861478374
- Author
- Drucker, Johanna, 1952-
- Title
- Graphesis : visual forms of knowledge production / Johanna Drucker.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- MetaLABprojectsMetaLABprojects.MetaLABprojects
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 215).
- Research Call Number
- JQD 15-132