TY - JOUR
T1 - Seeing Sense
T2 - Visual Literacy as a Tool for Libraries, Learning and Reader Development
AU - Johnston, David
AU - Education in the North
A2 - Martin, Helen
PY - 2020/12/17
Y1 - 2020/12/17
N2 - The term ‘visual literacy’, coined in the 1960s by John Debes from Eastman Kodak, has received renewed attention recently, as the development of increasingly sophisticated and affordable digital technologies have transformed the ways that we think about literate activity. At the turn of the century Gunther Kress, James Paul Gee and others were arguing that being literate involved understanding much more than words and text and that meaning and knowledge were built up through multiple modes of representation. As part of this multi-modal turn, it is widely accepted now that images no longer exist primarily to illustrate and entertain: they are central to meaning making. Jake Hope’s new book puts the visual right at the heart of our rapidly developing understanding of literacy in the 21st Century
AB - The term ‘visual literacy’, coined in the 1960s by John Debes from Eastman Kodak, has received renewed attention recently, as the development of increasingly sophisticated and affordable digital technologies have transformed the ways that we think about literate activity. At the turn of the century Gunther Kress, James Paul Gee and others were arguing that being literate involved understanding much more than words and text and that meaning and knowledge were built up through multiple modes of representation. As part of this multi-modal turn, it is widely accepted now that images no longer exist primarily to illustrate and entertain: they are central to meaning making. Jake Hope’s new book puts the visual right at the heart of our rapidly developing understanding of literacy in the 21st Century
U2 - 10.26203/pgvx-rp55
DO - 10.26203/pgvx-rp55
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
VL - 27
SP - 272
EP - 273
JO - Education in the North
JF - Education in the North
SN - 0424-5512
IS - 2
ER -