Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique (Baywood's Technical Communications) - Hardcover

Lee E Brasseur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895032406 ISBN 13: 9780895032409

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique demonstrates the ways in which the leading technical visuals of information design-graphs, charts, diagrams, tables, illustrations, and information visualization-are designed and read. Using genre theory as an analytical tool, the author makes the argument that problems with these visual forms are not necessarily the result of a designer's poor decisions or a reader's poor interpretation skills. Instead, there may be inherent problems in the visual genres themselves that are a direct result of their cultural history and current use.

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About the Authors

Kent L Koppelman

Lee Brasseur is an associate professor and the associate chair of the Department of English at Illinois State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895032406
• ISBN 13: 9780895032409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 185