Overview
Issues of representation affect every aspect of scientific activity, from the encoding, display, analysis, and presentation of data to the communication of scientific concepts and information to students and the general public. The essays in this collection explore the issues involved in the creation and deployment of visual representations in both the natural and the social sciences. Visual Cultures of Science offers a mix of theoretical analyses and revealing case studies. The latter address such topics as the technologies of visualization (from X-ray machines to films made by anthropologists), the persuasive power of the graphic presentation of data (including a critique of the work of Edward Tufte), and the distillation of data into pedagogical representations such as scientific wall charts for classroom use. With its useful mix of theory and case study, the book addresses both abstract and practical issues of representation, as well as demonstrating the importance of recognizing historicized perspectives in addressing issues of representation. These essays, by many of the field's leading minds today, offer solid research and new information pertaining to the methods, purposes, and implications of scientific visual culture.
Full Product Details
Author: Luc Pauwels
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Imprint: Dartmouth College Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9781584655114
ISBN 10: 1584655119
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 12 January 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
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Reviews
This volume is an exemplary manifestation of visual literacy and testifies to the empirical as well as the epistemological richness of this field of research in the history of science. --Isis Isis Choice This volume is an exemplary manifestation of 'visual literacy' and testifies to the empirical as well as the epistemological richness of this field of research in the history of science. -- Isis Education professionals or graduate students who are interested in visual representation in the pedagogy and general understanding of natural and social sciences would most benefit from reading this book. -- Choice -Education professionals or graduate students who are interested in visual representation in the pedagogy and general understanding of natural and social sciences would most benefit from reading this book.---Choice -This volume is an exemplary manifestation of 'visual literacy' and testifies to the empirical as well as the epistemological richness of this field of research in the history of science.---Isis Education professionals or graduate students who are interested in visual representation in the pedagogy and general understanding of natural and social sciences would most benefit from reading this book. Choice This volume is an exemplary manifestation of visual literacy and testifies to the empirical as well as the epistemological richness of this field of research in the history of science. Isis
Education professionals or graduate students who are interested in visual representation in the pedagogy and general understanding of natural and social sciences would most benefit from reading this book. Choice
Education professionals or graduate students who are interested in visual representation in the pedagogy and general understanding of natural and social sciences would most benefit from reading this book. --Choice
This volume is an exemplary manifestation of 'visual literacy' and testifies to the empirical as well as the epistemological richness of this field of research in the history of science. --Isis
This volume is an exemplary manifestation of visual literacy and testifies to the empirical as well as the epistemological richness of this field of research in the history of science. --Isis
-Education professionals or graduate students who are interested in visual representation in the pedagogy and general understanding of natural and social sciences would most benefit from reading this book.---Choice
Author Information
LUC PAUWELS is Associate Professor of Communication Science at the University of Antwerp. His previous publications include De Verbeelde Samenleving (Imaging Society) and articles in Visual Studies, Visual Sociology, and Journal of Visual Literacy.
