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

Lee E Brasseur

ISBN 10: 0895032406 / ISBN 13: 9780895032409

Published by Routledge, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique (Baywood's Technical Communications)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895032406
• ISBN 13: 9780895032409
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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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.

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.