[Air-l] Analyzing user generated multimedia content

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

Great sources Denise ... which reminds me that one should always look at the Edward Tufte books for the relation 
between visual imagery and information. (see http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/)

/Caroline

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>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:53:20 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] Analyzing user generated multimedia content  
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>
>Dera Anders -
>
>Very interesting topic here.
>
>Kress at least mentions a grammar of visual design
>which I think would be helpful (if it were possible).
>After one builds the grammar, then the analysis would
>be possible.
>
>Here is an interesting little book on how to read the
>visual from an art historical perspective. Don't think
>that's wanted here but at least shows an insertion
>point into the study of images from a cultural
>perspective.
>
>Dikovitskaya, M. (2005). Visual culture: the study of
>the visual after the cultural turn. Cambridge, MA, MIT
>Press.
>	
>Kress, with a link:
>Kress, G. and T. van Leeuwen (1996). Reading images:
>The grammar of visual design. London, Routledge.
>Here's a link to one of his newer papers.
>http://www.knowledgepresentation.org/BuildingTheFuture/Kress2/Kress2.html
>
>This went around on the list a while ago:
>
>VIRTUAL ART
> From Illusion to Immersion
>by Oliver Grau
>A Leonardo Book published by MIT Press
>(January 2003, ISBN 0-262-07241-6, 7 x 9, 360 pp., 89
>illus)
>

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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820