Eloquent images : word and image in the age of new media / edited by Mary E. Hocks and Michelle R. Kendrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hocks, Mary E.

Kendrick, Michelle R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual communication.

Digital media.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 318 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The emergence of New Media has stimulated debate about the power of the visual to dethrone the cultural prominence of textuality and print. Some scholars celebrate the proliferation of digital images, arguing that it suggests a return to a pictorial age when knowledge was communicated through images as well as through words. Others argue that the inherent conflict between texts and images creates a battleground between the feminized, seductive power of images and the masculine rationality of the printed word. Eloquent Images suggests that these debates misunderstand the dynamic interplay that has always existed between word and image. Arguing that the complex relationship between text and image in New Media does not represent a radical rupture from the past, the book examines rhetorical and cultural uses of word and image both historically and currently. It shows that complex, interpenetrating relationships between verbal and visual communication systems were already evident in hieroglyphic writing and in ancient rhetoric and persist in the work of classical rhetoricians, in cultural studies of technology, even in the binary code distinctions of digital environments. The essays blend theory, critique, and design practice to explore the often contradictory relations of word and image. All of them call for theoretically grounded approaches to hypermedia design.

Contents:

Critical theory and the challenge of new media / Jay David Bolter

Seriously visible / Anne Frances Wysocki

The dialogics of new media: video, visualization, and narrative in Red planet: scientific and cultural encounters with Mars / Helen Burgess, Jeanne Hamming, and Robert Markley

Recovering the multimedia history of writing in the public texts of ancient Egypt / Carol S. Lipson

Digital images and classical persuasion / Kevin LaGrandeur

The word as image in an age of digital reproduction / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Same difference: evolving conclusions about textuality and new media / Nancy Barta-Smith and Danette DiMarco

Illusions, images, and anti-illustrations / Jan Baetens

Cognitive and educational implications of visually rich media: images and imagination / Jennifer Wiley

Feminist cyborgs live on the world wide web: international and not so international contexts / Gail E. Hawisher and Patricia Sullivan

Unheimlich maneuver: self-image and identificatory practice in virtual reality environments / Alice Crawford

Eloquent interfaces: humanities-based analysis in the age of hypermedia / Ellen Strain and Gregory VanHoosier-Carey

Writing a story in virtual reality / Josephine Anstey.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27550-3

0-585-48271-3

OCLC:

53958635