ENG4953

​ **This wiki is for Sid Dobrin's ENG 4953 class, Fall, 2010.**
 * The purpose of the wiki is to develop an annotated bibliography of resources for those working in areas of visual rhetoric, visual culture, visual literacy, and visual communication.**

Please post all entries in alphabetic order, using MLA format. Following your entry, please click the "Horizontal Rule icon in the tool bar, so we can distinguish between entries.

//A Global Imperative//. 23 Nov. 2005. The New Media Consortium. 23 Nov. 2010 []. (Sarah Kingsley)- Discusses importance of visual arguments and visual literacy.

"About – The Mecha Fetus Visublog." The Mecha Fetus Visublog - Welcome to the Dream of Future. Mecha Fetus, May 2007. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. .

A visual blog hosted by some of the leading digital artists of today including Paul Robertson who works exclusively with pixels (known for his collaboration on the //Scott Pilgrim// series), and Jonathan Kim. (Steven Thompson)

"Anonymous's DDoS Attacks May Make Headlines, But Do They Make a Difference?" //ReadWriteWeb - Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking and Social Media//. Web. 04 Dec. 2010. .

This article discusses 4chan's DDoS attacks on pro-copyright groups and opens a discussion to gauge its effect.

(Brendan Carson=8)

Azuma, Hiroki. "%u201CA Conversation between Hiroki Azuma and Doug McGray on Literature, Anime, and Otaku Culture in Contemporary Japan%u201D." Interview by Doug McGray. //Http://www.japansociety.org/resources/content/2/0/5/4/documents/azuma_mcgray%20interview.pdf//. Web.//

//An interview with Hiroki Azuma about the role image-based Japanese internet forums in creating a nationalistic Japanese identity.// //(Brendan Carson=3)//

Azuma, Hiroki. Otaku: Japan's Database Animals//. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2009. Print.//

//This is a translation of a very short book by Azuma. It gives great insight into a Japanese subculture, otaku, and its roots in postmodernity and impact on contemporary society.//

//(Brendan Carson=1)//

//BanBillBoardBlight. 6 Aug 2010. Web. 15 Sep 2010//

//// //-Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010//

//The motto of the above LA based website is "Defend our Public Spaces / Protect our Visual Environment". They are more or less attempting to become the moderators of what does and does not appear on billboards in LA. I thought this article was absolutely amazing. IBM is developing recognition software for billboards that will create personalized ads. Meaning it will recognize your name, gender, etc., locate past or recent purchases you've made, then display multiple ads marketed towards you. That would hands down distract me while driving.//

Banksy  Home Page Outdoor Art Gallery <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy > Wikipedia Page-Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010

Banksy is hands down my favorite graffiti artist. Check out his Wikipedia page. Take some time to read all the entries and you are guaranteed to be moved. More importantly, check out all the links at the bottom of the page. Its amazing how he displays his work and the messages behind it.

//Barthes, Roland. Image, Music, Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. Hill ans Wang, 1977.//

//Essays on semiology.// //(SID)//

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies//. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. (Sarah Kingsley)- Barthes' Mythologies states the importance of analyzing the concept and meaning of visual representations and images through the sign, signifier, and signified.//

Baudrillard, Jean (trans. by.Foss, Patton and Beitchman). Simulations. //New York, NY: Semiotext(e) Inc, 1983.[| ]//

//Link to an online English copy of an important postmodern work by French theorist Jean Baudrillard. It discusses the dissolution of the real in favor of the "hyperreal" in contemporary society, and the loss of meaning behind the notion of the "original": all significant topics to modern visual culture.//

//(Danielle Frankel)//

Benjamin, Walter. "Little History of Photography." Selected Writings Volume 2: 1927-1934 //. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1996. 507-530.//

//A fascinating essay on images, photography and history, written by one of the most notable visual thinkers of all time.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

//Berger, John.// About Looking//. Vintage, 1992. (Sarah Kingsley)- Berger's analysis of looking beyond visual representation.//

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing//. Penguin, 1977.//

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//Berger, Maurice. //For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights//. New Haven: Yale UP, 2010. Print.// //. // //What I really appreciated in this book were the full page reproductions of photographs and advertisements. Not only did the book discuss how images were used in the civil rights movement and their intended impact, but also in some cases how they were produced. “Photographs, far from representing an irrefutable truth, are shaped by the point of view, motives, and biases of the person who takes them.” (page 111) It provides a wide range of examples form corn and baby doll advertisements to portraits of civil rights leaders, and from cartoons to pictures of protestors. Well many illustrations are provided the book does not revolve around them and has deeper content about the specifics of the movement. The book is easy to follow, understand, and covers everything from Aunt Jemima to Martin Luther King Jr. // //. //

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//Bergman, Mats, and Sami Paavola. "Peirce's Terminology in His Own Words."// The Commens Dictionary of Peirce's Terms//. Helsinki Metaphysical Club, 2003. Web. [|].//

//An index of tricky terms used by one of the founders of semiotics, Charles Peirce. It's designed to link you directly to the context in which any word appears, rather than trying to abstractly explain or define the terms. Very useful for quick refreshers while reading.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

//Birdsell, David S., and Leo Groarke. "Outlines of a Theory of Visual Argument."// Argumentation & Advocacy //43.3/4 (2007): 103-113.// Academic Search Premier//. EBSCO. Web. 1 Dec. 2010.//

//An article that provides a theory of visual argument by elaborating on what the authors see as three prerequisites for a theory of visual argument: an acceptance that visuals have meaning, a better understanding of how images convey arguments, and a careful consideration of the relationship between images and the contexts in which they exist. It also disputes the traditional belief that words are more useful and effective at making arguments than images.//

//(Sharon Gilbert)//

Blackmon, Samantha. // Not Your Mama’s Gamer: Not Just Another Gamer Site //. WordPress, 23 April 2011. Web. 27 April 2011. 

Wonderful website for the latest in video game theory with applications in culture and pedagogy.

(Melissa "Brown Coat" Bianchi) - 10

// Blair, Anthony J. “The Possibility and Actuality of Visual Arguments” //

// Argumentation and Advocacy; Summer 1996; 33,1; Research Library Core pg 23. Web. 21 Nov 2010. // // <[]> // // -Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010 //

// Any student taking a visual rhetoric or argument class should read this paper in its entirety. Compares verbal arguments to visual arguments. Speaks of limitations, clarity, precision, etc. //

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bogost, Ian. //Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames//. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Print.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Introduction to what Bogost calls //procedural rhetoric//, a type of rhetoric associated with computer processes. Bogost examines videogames critically as a medium for persuasive expression through his concept of procedural rhetoric. Innovative and Interesting.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bogost, Ian. //Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism//. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2006. Print.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Bogost combines both literary theory and information technology to develop a new way of reading and analyzing videogames. According to Bogost, any medium can be read as discrete, interlocking units of meaning, and this becomes useful for the comparative analysis of digital works, like video games, in relation to non-digital texts.

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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Bowen, Tracey. "Making art in a digital/cyber culture: exploring the dialectic between the manual creator and the digital self." //<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital Creativity // 14.4 (2003): 219-229.

This article discusses the role of the artist in the digital age, and how hands-on tools change meaning in a world filled with digital manipulation.

(Andrew Sheppard)

Bricker, Eric. //Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman//. 2008. []

An in-depth analysis of the career of one of the most famous architectural photographers and his methods to great architectural photography. (James Graham, 3)

A. Bryant & G.Pollock, //Digital and Other Virtualities: renegotiating the image,// 2010.

In this book, artists, filmmakers, film theorists, philosophers, literary critics, information theorists and cultural analysts examine the terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theory in relation to history, trauma, sexuality, textuality, anxiety, simulated lives, code, digital cinema, science fiction, and contemporary art, and others. The contributors draw on concrete practices, ranging from film, video and chatrooms to airport spaces, conceptual art and textiles, to offer critically engaged, sometimes sceptical, analyses of contemporary image worlds.

Burnett, Ron. How Images Think. MIT Press, 2005.

//Examines the interactive and ecological characteristics of how images function in all media.// //(SID)//

Calvino, Italo. The Castle of Crossed Destinies//. Harcourt Brace, 1973.//

Calvino, Italo. //Cosmicomics.// Harcourt Brace, 1965. Print

A book of short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. With several ties to //Castle of Crossed Destinies//, Calvino's take on this book is to have each story feature an non-human main character that experiences things as if it was human. (James Graham, 5)

Chong, Andrew. Basic Animation: Digital ANimation. AVA Books, 2008.

//examines the history of digital animation.// //(SID)//

Clarke, Michael. Verbalising the Visual: Translating Art and Design into Words. AVA Books, 2007

//Asks as to how we translate visual culture into written and spoken words.// //(SID)//

John Collier, Jr. and Malcom Collier. //Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method//. 1986.

This is an old book, first published in 1967, but it is a classic in its field, invaluable not only for anthropologists but for anyone using photography, film, and video to understand human behavior and culture. (posted by Olga Godula)

//Copeland, Larry "More cities ban digital billboards"//

//USA Today. 24 Mar 2010. Web. 15 Sep 2010// //<http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-22-visual-soup_N.htm>// //-Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010//

//Some see digital billboards as a distraction. St. Petersburg FL has even banned them, displaying a somewhat local issue. We had one installed at the largest intersection in my home town of Stuart, FL. I must admit I unknowingly delayed the left turn lane about 10seconds as I waited for all the ads to cycle. Funny thing is...the drivers behind me must of been doing the same thing as no one honked.//

Copyright [] This is a website all about copyright. If a person whats to get publications licensing or registration this is the place to go. (Bertrhude Albert)

Copyrights for Artists [] This website address the rights of different artists to make an image out of a preexsisting one. (Bertrhude Albert)

Crow, David. Visible Signs//. 2nd Edition. AVA Books, 2010.//

Crow, David. Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Words to Pictures//. AVA Books, 2006.//

Cubitt, Sean. EcoMedia. Rodopi, 2005.

//An intersting book about how ecological concerns are mediate through contemporary film and television// //(SID)//

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Cyr, Dianne, Milena Head, and Hector Larios. "Colour appeal in website design within and across cultures: A multi-method evaluation." //<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">International Journal of Human -- Computer Studies // 68.1/2 (2010): 1-21.

This article goes over a study of color on the internet. Specifically it discusses how color effects website reception.

(Andrew Sheppard)

//Daston, Lorraine, and Peter Galison. Objectivity. Zone Books, 2010. Print.//

//An exploration of how the pursuit of objectivity shapes scientific images. The authors analyze images from a variety of empirical sciences in order to give readers a better understanding of how objectivity is communicated through visuals.//

//(Sharon Gilbert)//

//Devoss, Danielle Nicole, and Patrick Russell Lebeau. "Reading and Composing Indians: Invented Indian Identity through Visual Literacy."// Journal of Popular Culture //43.1 (2010): 45-77.// Academic Search Premier//. EBSCO. Web. 1 Dec. 2010.//

//An article uses theories of visual analysis and visual literacy to analyze how Native Americans have been visually represented in popular culture. It argues that contemporary visual representations of Native Americans are problematic because they are dated and rooted in stereotypes.//

//(Sharon Gilbert)//

//Dikovitskaya, Margarita.// Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual After the Cultural Turn//. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005. Print.//

//An examination of the cultural shift away from art history and towards visual studies. Dikovitskaya begins with a discussion of the history of visual studies, moves next to an examination of four visual studies programs that are currently being offered, and then ends with predictions about the future of visual studies programs in the twenty-first century.//

//(Sharon Gilbert)//

//Dumit, Joseph.// Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. //Princeton University Press, 2003.//

//An interdisciplinary book that recounts the history of PET scans and helps readers see how medical images can challenge philosophical beliefs.//

//(Sharon Gilbert)//

//Eggleston, Stephen. "What every Webmaster Needs to know about Copyright Laws." []//

//A simple guide to understanding copyright law.// //(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns)//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Eisner, Will. //Comics & Sequential Art//. Paramus, NJ: Poorhouse Press, 1990. Print.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Eisner explains the basic principles of comics: imagery, visual forms, space, the frame, and the reading and application of time. Great beginner book for understanding comics.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Eisner, Will, and Peter Poplaski. //Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist//. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. Print.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The text explores the critical principle of body grammar in graphic storytelling**,** specifically examining theories of movement, body mechanics, facial expressions, and posture.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Eisner, Will. //Graphic Storytelling//. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1996. Print.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The book illustrates (literally) the principles of using different stylistic techniques to tell a graphic story effectively. Eisner includes some of his own images, as well as illustrations from historical greats H. Foster, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, and George Herriman.

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//Elkins, James. The Domain of Images. Cornell University Press, 1999.//

//An examination of "non-art" images from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology as richly expressive.// //(SID)//

//FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts//. Web. 04 Dec. 2010. <http://fontstruct.com/>.

This online application allows you to create your own type set and escape the ubiquitous Helvetica.

(Brendan Carson=5)

//FotoFlexer//

//[] (Sarah Kingsley)- Photo editing site. Includes transitions, color modifications, and photo manipulation.//

//Fraser, Pete. 2005. Teaching Music Video.// British Film Institute. //This book comes from// "Teaching Film and Media Studies" //Series (Series Editor: Vivienne Clark). The series is aimed for teachers who are new to Media Studies. Teaching Music Video// introduces what a music video is, then brings a historical overview and recent development of music videos, provides three case studies, and finally gives practical guidelines on how to organise a student music video project. (posted by Olga Godula)

The Freesound Project. Apr 2005. []

A repository of Creative Commons licensed audio samples available for unlimited, copyright-free use. (James Graham, 4)

//Gender Ads .com. "Ads, Education, and Activism." []//

//A web site that discusses a multitude of ideas and concepts dealing with advertising and gender.//

//(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns)//

//Gibson, James J. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates,1986.//

//Explores ecological psychology of visual perception.// //(SID)//

//<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Goldsmith, A. "Photos always lied. (Cover story)." //<span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Popular Photography //98.11 (1991): 68.//

//<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">A cover story which goes over the details of photo manipulation prior to the digital revolution. While it doesn't provide any great revelations on the subject, it is a good article which points out that manipulation has been in photography throughout it's history. //

//(Posted by Andrew Sheppard)//

Good, Robin of //Masternewmedia//. // What Is Viral Marketing: Key Principles And Strategies. // 13 Jul 2010. []

The end-all guide to Viral Marketing. Contains everything you could ever want to know about "going viral." Available to you are horde of publications available for viewing in .pdf format. (James Graham, 8)

Graffiti Gloassary [] This website is a website with many graffiti slang and talking styles. This is created to help people understand what is written on some of the graffiti walls. Bertrhude Albert

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Groensteen, Thierry. //The System of Comics//. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Print.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Provides a structuralist approach to reading comics that is much more nuanced and complex than what we get from McCloud or Eisner. Builds off of Barthes’ work in //Image Music Text//. The book can be a bit dense at times, but it is definitely a must read if you are interested in comic studies.

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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">//GURRI, MARTIN, CRAIG DENNY, and AARON HARMS. "Our Visual Persuasion Gap."// <span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Parameters: US Army War College //40.1 (2010): 101-109.//

//A short article which goes over the details of visual propaganda and it's use in various military applications. While this is not a new field, this article gives details on modern instances of visual propaganda that is a breath of fresh air from analyzing old recruitment posters.//

//(Posted by Andrew Sheppard)//

//Hariman, Robert and John Loius Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. University of Chicago Press, 2007.//

//A study of why some photographs become so important once they enter America's collective consciousness.// //(SID)//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">//Hartley, John. "The Politics of Pictures: the creation of the public in the age of popular media." Routledge: New York, 1992.//

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">An unconventional book that discusses the role of pictures in politics and a wide range of related subjects. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns) //

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Helmers, Marguerite. //The Elements of Visual Analysis//. New York: Pearson, 2006. Print.//

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This is a very thin and useful book. It goes through the steps and levels of readings and reactions that occur when we look at an image. The book also takes you through what Helmers’ calls the elements of critical viewing to help teach effective ways to evaluate an image. //

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//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Helmers, Marguerite, and Charles A. Hill, eds. //Defining Visual Rhetorics//. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Print.//

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The purpose of this book, as explained in the introduction, is to “study the relationship of visual images to persuasion.” Each chapter has a different author who focuses on one aspect of that topic, so the book forms more of a compilation of essays rather than one reference book. A few of the chapter titles are: The Psychology of Rhetorical Images, Gender Environments: Gender and the Natural World in the Rhetoric Advertising, and Political Candidates’ Convention Films: Finding the Perfect Image-An Overview of Political Image Making. This book covers a broad scope of examples of how visual images are used to persuade; however, because of the number of different authors, you can go to any one of the chapters and read it without becoming lost from not reading the rest of the book. // // . //  // 3= Alexandra Bargoot Eng 4953 2010 //

Hill, Charles &Helmers, Marguerite:Defining visual rhetoric’s. Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erbaum, 2004. This book is all about visual rhetoric’s. It is a great beginner manual to what visual rhetoric is. (Bertrhude Albert)

//Hoffman, Donald D. Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See.Norton, 1998.//

//A smart book about how we use vision to construct the world around us.// //(SID)//

David Holloway & John Beck. //American Visual Cultures//. 2005.

This is a textbook for students of contemporary American art and media, and modern American history. The book analyzes the role of painting, photography, film, television, advertising, journalism and other visual media in the historical development of the United States from the Civil War to the present day. It offers a chronology of major debates and developments in modern US history and traces the social, political and economic factors that have shaped the development of visual forms and practices across time. (posted by Olga Godula)

//Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms. Creative Commons Attribution. Web. 22 Sept. 2010.//

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//A wiki collection of common tropes among all forms of media. Offers a great database and many ways to link between pages and search. (Steven Thompson)//

Jason, By. //Channel 101 - Catch The Magic//. Web. 04 Dec. 2010. <http://www.channel101.com/>.

This website is a meeting place for up and coming television show directors. Anyone is allowed to submit a pilot episode of a TV show and have it shown on the website. This website is important because it enables amateurs to have a podium for their work. Screenings of enws shows are screened in LA.

(Brendan Carson=6)

Johnson, Joel. ""Bubbling" Tricks Your Mind To See Anyone Naked." Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide. 01 Sept. 2010. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. <http://gizmodo.com/5627807/bubbling-tricks-your-mind-to-makes-anyone-naked>.

A crossing of religion and image manipulation. A mormon, who is not allowed to view nudity or sexual content, invents a way to edit an image and trick his brain into filling in the nude parts. (Steven Thompson)

// Jones-Kavalier, Barbara R., and Suzanne L. Flannigan. //Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century//. 23 Nov. 2006. EDUCAUSE. 23 Nov. 2010 [educausequarterlymagazinevolum/​connectingthedigitaldotslitera/​ 157395]. (Sarah Kingsley)- Connections made between image and meaning.//

//Hunton, Mary. "Owning Your Image." []//

//This article discusses the rights of photographer and model in relationship to ownership of photos.//

//(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns)//

How to make a streaming video [] This website shows us how to make a streaming video. Bertrhude Albert

Journal of Visual Culture. [|<]//[|http://vcu.sagepub.com///>//]//

//An online academic journal that "promotes research, scholarship and critical engagement with visual cultures." It features some extremely notable writers. If you're off campus, remember that you need to be signed in by proxy to ufl.edu in order to access any articles for free.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">//KEISNER, JODY. "Do you Want to Watch? A Study of the Visual Rhetoric of the Postmodern Horror Film."// <span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Women's Studies //37.4 (2008): 411-427.//

//An interesting article which speaks about modern slasher films and the visuals presented in them. Specifically it deals with the social context which causes people to enjoy these films. The articles primary objective is the analysis of the female figure in these films.//

//(Posted By Andrew Sheppard)//

Knauer, Kelly, ed. Time: Great Images of the 20th Century. New York: Time, 1999. Print.

The book that I found my analytical image in. It's a collection of the defining images of the 20th century with brief write ups about their history and impact. (Steven Thompson)

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Kostelnick, Charles, and Michael Hassett. //Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of

Visual Conventions//. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. Print.// // . // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The focus of the book is on the origins, authority, and conventions of our modern visual language. The final chapter has an interesting topic on problems of misinterpretation and misdirection, which I have not yet seen address to this extent in other books I have looked at. There is a chapter dedicated to explaining conventions (as it pertains to visual language) and what is a conventional verse what is not. It is followed by a chapter that discusses how those conventions are shaped and transformed. //

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//Kracauer, Siegfried (trans. by Thomas Levin). "Photography." // The Mass Ornament : Weimar Essays//. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. 47-63.//

//Another older work about photography, the visual and history that remains just as relevant today.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

//Kress, Gunther, Literacy in the New Media Age. Routledge, 2003.// //A study of how the screen has replaced the book as the dominant medium of communication and how the image is displacing writing and moving to the center of communication.// //(SID)//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">//Laing, Ellen Johnston.// Selling Happiness: calendar poster and visual culture in

early-twentieth-century Shanghai//. Honolulu: U of Hawai'i P, 2004. Print.// //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This book is useful if you are doing research on advertising and wanted a perspective on its effect and style in Chinese society in comparison to the western world, primarily Britain and the United States. It begins with a section on the popular prints in Shanghai and then has two sections about the rise and production of calendar posters. There is a chapter on techniques and themes and one that specifically focuses on Artist at British and American Tobacco. Something that I found interesting was the image of the American advertisement next to its Chinese counterpart which would have the identical set up but the latter with Asian characteristics (such as the people, manner of women’s dress, and bordering of poster; all subtleties which do not remove the very evident western aspect of the product). // //.//

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//Leeuwen, Theo van and Carey Jewitt. Handbook of Visual Analysis. Sage Publication, 2001. A study of visual representations fro a social sciences perspective.//

//(SID)//

//Lessig, Lawrence.// Free Culture. //New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2004. [|<http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/>]//
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// Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture. New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2004. Print. // // [NOTE: Italicize "Free Culture"] //

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//A very informative book by leading public intellectual and creator of the Creative Commons copyright licensing system, Lawrence Lessig. It argues for the importance of protecting contemporary culture (particularly that culture which relates to the Internet, meaning lots of visual culture) from big media that uses technology and our inadequate copyright system to control said culture. It is available to anyone for free from the author's website above. There is also a shorter [|flash presentation version].//=====

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//Lopes, Dominic.// Understanding Pictures//. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996. Print.=====//

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This book is divided into four parts: Pictures as Perceptual, Pictures as Symbols, Aspect Recognition, and Applications. In the second section the author discusses Goodman’s Symbol Theory and continues this further in section for under the chapter heading “Fictive Pictures”. I found this part interesting because it tries to rationalize using as image to refer to something that does not exist, or literally, is not. The book is a bit heavy in someplace and the author is continually referencing what he has said in other chapters. It is a good resource if you plan to sit and read a whole section but not for quickly look something up. =====

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Loutit, Keith. Tilt-shift photographer. 2010. []

Miniaturizing reality, tilt-shift photography is a relatively modern technique originally only attainable with expensive camera equipment, but now can be replicated in photoshop. Keith Loutit is a well-known internet example of a master of tilt-shift photography. (James Graham, 6)

//Macwilliams, Mark W.// Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime//. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 2008. Print.//

//A compilation of writings by scholars from around the world on two forms of media that tell stories with pictures- manga and anime. The book provides a history of the two art forms, looks at the various cultural purposes they have served, and aims to give students and scholars a greater understanding of they have become so popular.//

//(Sharon Gilbert)//

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Madden, Patricia A., MPH, Grube, Joel W., PHD “The frequency and nature of alocohol and tobacco advertising in televised sports, 1990 through 1992”

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Public Health Briefs. Feb 1994. Web 6 Oct 2010

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><[]>

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">-Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Interesting article regarding the frequency and nature of alcohol and tobacco advertising in a random sample of 166 televised sports events representing 443.7 hours of network programming broadcast from fall 1990 through summer 1992.

Mandak, Joe. "Google Admits Trespassing in Pa., Pays Couple $1." News from The Associated Press. 02 Dec. 2010. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. <http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOOGLE_PHOTO_LAWSUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>.

Google recently paid a couple $1 in a lawsuit regarding trespassing. Google had taken a picture of their home for their street view feature of Google Maps and the couple claims that damages the properties value. It raises the question of digital trespassing and image ownership, as well as the value of seclusion. (Steven Thompson)

Mayfield, Kendra. "Tate's Ultra-Modern Visual Access." []

//This article discusses i-map, a website that is dedicated to making art accessible to the visually impaired.//

//(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns)//

McCloud, Scott. Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form. New York: Perennial, 2000. Print.

Another by McCloud. It examines how the burgeoning mediums of web comics and internet publication have affected how we create not just comics, but any image in a digital space. (Steven Thompson)

//McCloud, Scott.// Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art//. Ed. Mark Martin. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. Print.//

//The name of this book is exactly what it is about. McCloud discusses the different choices authors have when choosing color, the amount of detail the images have, and even the amount of space between the frames. All of these things influence how we interpret and read the comic. He explains terms that we discussed in class such as iconic abstraction. One of the more interesting parts of the book for me was when he compared stylistic differences between American, European, and Japanese comics. This is the author's website if you are interested in knowing more: []// //.// //7= Alexandra Bargoot Eng 4953 2010//

//Messaris, Paul.// Visual "literacy": Image, Mind, and Reality//. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. Print.//

//A book that analyzes how people respond to and understand visual media. It also shows how images are used to manipulate people's behavior.//

//(Sharon Gilbert)//

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Metros, Susan E. "The Educator's Role in Preparing Visually Literate Learners." //<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theory Into Practice // 47.2 (2008): 102-109.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">This article goes over the need for educators to engage students in order to make them visually literate.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">(Drew Sheppard)

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Miller, David C, ed. //American Iconology: New Approches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature//. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993. Print.// // . // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This book focuses on images that from nineteenth century America which have become iconic. It is a series of essays that analyze different images of movements of the time. Chapter heading examples are: “Lilly Martin Domestic Genre Painting in Antebellum America” and “The Price of Beauty: Art, Commerce, and the Late Nineteenth-Century American Culture”. The essays are all vastly different with the only common thread being the time frame and something to do with images becoming iconic. Though the title includes literature, there is nearly nothing on it and only one of the twelve chapters has it as its focus. //

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//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. //The Visual Culture Reader//. 2nd ed. London: Routledge,//

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">2002. Print. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This book contains sixty essays of varying lengths in 710 pages. They range from general topics such as “Studying Visual Culture” to more dense analytical subjects, “Prohibition, Psychoanalysis and the Heterosexual Matrix”. It includes essays by Karl Marx and W.E.B. Dubois as well as less well known figures. In the back is a useful resource in which a short note on each of the contributors is given. There is no one way to categorize this book. The essays cover things from cosmetic surgery to colonialism. // // . //

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//Mitchell, W J T. "Picture Theory." The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1994. A book discussing picture theory.//

//(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns)//

//Mitchell, W J. T.// What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images//. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Print.//

//A collection of essays in which Mitchell analyzes a wide range of images from literature, visual arts, and mass media in an attempt to determine why images have the ability to elicit such powerful emotional and behavioral responses.//

//(Sharon Gilbert)//

Moradi, Iman. "Glitch Aesthetics." Diss. University of Huddersfield, 2004. Print

An incredibly well thought out dissertation on "glitch art." That is, the recording and utilizing of computer and video glitches to create art. (Steven Thompson)

//Munroe, Randall. "Color Survey Results."// xkcd: the blag of the webcomic//. WordPress.org, 03 May 2010. [|<http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/>]//

//An informal study on color names and gender with interesting statistical analyses. May dispell some myths about this aspect of our visual culture being gendered.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

Munroe, Randall. "Online Communities 2." xkcd.com//. [|<http://xkcd.com/802/>]//

//One intellectual webcomic artist's version of a visual image of what the World Wide Web "looks" like in 2010. An interesting work, moreover visual culture and literacy are frequent tropes in the comic.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

Murakami, Takashi. "Takashi Murakami." Interview. //Journal of Contemporary Art//. Web. 04 Dec. 2010. <http://www.jca-online.com/murakami.html>.

This interview covers the origins of Murakami's super-flat movement and discusses the stigma attached to being an otaku. In 1989, a man name Miyazaki Tsutomu was convicted of murdering little girls. The media aired images of his room and defined him as an otaku. Despite advancements in the otaku movement there are still issues regarding its past.

(Brendan Carson=4)

//Murakami, Takashi.// Little Boy: the Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture//. New York: Japan Society, 2005. Print.//

//This book is Murakami's survey of the development of super-flat art, a movement which simultaneously emphasizes the shallow nature of consumer culture and egalitarianism in its use of a shallow depth of field. Lots of pictures. In both English and Japanese.// //(Brendan Carson=2)//

Musicclub.com. "A Page of history." 1992. []

The first image ever published online. More specifically, the first image to ever be clicked on in a web browser. Featuring the all-female band "Les Horribles Cernettes." (James Graham, 7)

Northen, Elijah. flickr Photostream. Nov 2010. []

Flickr is a pioneering website redefining the ways of receiving artistic exposure. Elijah Northen is an example of a photographer-turned-internet-icon over the course of merely one year. (James Graham, 2)

"Nude Pictures of Young Girls Bring Controversy to UofL Exhibit | WHAS11.com | Louisville News, Kentucky News & Breaking News | WHAS11.com | News for Louisville, Kentucky." //WHAS11 Louisville, Kentucky and Indiana News//. Web. 04 Dec. 2010. <http://www.whas11.com/news/local/UofL-art-exhibit-causes-controversy-showing-pictures-of-nude-girls-84986232.html>.

This article discusses a controversial exhibit: Body Appreciation Week at the University of Louisville. While the exhibit is closed of and relies on anatomical research to discuss health issues and give women self-confidence this exhibit is a hot debate about what should be available to see in the public sphere. (Brendan Carson=7)

Osgood, Ronald J. and M. Joseph Hinshaw. Visual Storytelling: Videography and Post Production in the Digital Age. Wadsworth Publishing, 2009.

//A textbook designed to teach students the importance of storytelling in contemporary video production.// //(SID)//

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Parry, Wayne “Newark teachers’ plea: Stop the killings” //<[]>// //AP News. 2 Feb 2007. Web. 6 Oct 2010// //-Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010//

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Murder rate is Newark New Jersey spiked over 100 killings for the first time in a decade. Teachers Union took a stand and purchased hald a dozen billboards with numerous PSA messages. For example, “Help Wanted, Stop the Killings in Newark NOW. “ Two years later the murder rate had dropped by 40 percent.

Peacay. "A Discussion board of The Image Culture." []

//Discusses ideas about differences receiving information through television and/or books. Attempts to answers questions about whether the image based culture is allowing people to be more imformed or dumbing down society.//

//(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns)//

//"Pregnant nun ice cream advert banned for mockery"//

//BBC News. 14 Sep 2010. Web. 14 Sep 2010// //<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11300552>// //-Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010//

//Some view this poster as crossing the line. Personally I find it catchy and am by no means offended. However, I am not Catholic and I understand how devote Catholics could be perturbed. After the issue aroused, the ice cream company (Antonio Federici) decided to place posters near Westminster Abbey, where the pope will be visiting this weekend.//

Photography [] This is a link to a website fully devoted to photography. This includes articles, interviews and more. This website is designed to address every aspect of photography. (Bertrhude-1)

Pink, Sarah. 2001. //Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, Media, and Representation in Research//.

This book explores the use and potential of photography and video and in ethnographic research. The author follows the research process from project design planning, implementing and practicing fieldwork to analysis and representation. She suggests how visual images and technologies can be combined to form an integrated process throughout the different stages of research. (posted by Olga Godula)

Jon Prosser, ed. //Image-based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers.// 1998.

Although qualitative research is dominated by language researchers have recently shown a growing interest in adopting an image-based approach, as do the contributors to this book. The book covers a broad scope, including theory and the research process; and provides practical examples of how image-based research is applied in the field. It discusses use of images: in child abuse investigation; exploring children's drawings in health education; cartoons; the media and teachers. (posted by Olga Godula)

//Ranciere, Jacques. The Future of the Image. Verso, 2009.//

//A manifesto in support of the idea that art should work to advance egalitarian beliefs. Ranciere argues through an exploration of art, film, and philosophy that art and politics are inextricably linked; therefore, art is morally obligated to promote social equality.// //(Sharon Gilbert)//

//The Rasterbator. [|<http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/>]//

//A website that allows anyone to either link to a high-quality image or upload their own and print out large images on several pieces of normal computer paper. The idea is to create poster- or art-sized images and be able to print them using an ordinary printer. Useful if you want physical copies of images.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

Ratcliff, Trey of //Stuckincustoms//. //HDR Photography//. 4 Jan 2009. []

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography - a photoshop algorithm that compiles multiple shots of the same scene taken at different lighting / focus to create a hyper-realistic end product. This site contains a guide as well as a multitude of amazing HDR images taken by Mr. Ratcliff. (James Graham, 9)

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">RITZENHOFF, KAREN. "Visual competence and reading the recorded past: the paradigm shift from analogue to digital video in Michael Haneke's film Cache." //<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Visual Studies // 23.2 (2008): 136-146.

This article discusses the paradigm shift from a culture where corporations produce and distribute media to one where individuals produce their own media to be distributed via the internet.

(Andrew Sheppard)

Roman, Alex. "The Third and the Seventh." 2009. []

A film that truly blurs the line between reality and CGI. Created with a combination of Rhinoceros, Vray, 3ds max, and other presently-used architectural rendering software. (James Graham, 1)

//Rosen, Christine. __The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society.__ "The Image Culture." Fall 2005. []//

//This is a scholarly article that discusses the effects of our growing image based culture on society. Rosen gives a brief overview on the history of the image and discusses in detail its impact on both society and the written word. The article also refers to many other writings on the subject.// //(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns)//

//Riley, Kathryn and Jo Mackiewicz. Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media. Pearson, 2011.//

//A Textbook designed for producers of professional and technical communication who wan tto lear the fundamentals of effective document design.// //(SID)//

Ruby, Jay. //Picturing Culture//. //Exploration of Film and Anthropology.// 2000.

Jay Ruby brings his thirty-year experience and expertise of the relationship of film and anthropology. The book analyzes films by Robert Flaherty, Robert Garner, and Tim Asch, as well as brings a highly theoretical perspectives. (posted by Olga Godula)

Sanders, Ryland. Says-It.com//. 2010. [|<http://www.says-it.com/>].//

//An online sign/symbol/image/text generator, for when you don't want to or can't use Photoshop. Or just for fun. Includes everything from church signs to fast food logos.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

Sekine, Kosai. "Google Image Fashion Show." Robbin Ingvarsson, Waldemar Wegelin - Creative Partners from Hyper Island. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. <http://www.robbinwaldemar.com/work/google-fashion-show/>.

Google hosted this as a new ad campaign in Japan. Using search filters and projected digital images, they created an instant, searchable fashion show. (Steven Thompson)

Richard K. Sherwin, et al (2007) What is Visual Knowledge and What is it Good for? //Visual Anthropology// 20:2

This article offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the visual meaning-making process that happens between practicing lawyers and ethnographers. It presents the new tools of analysis and representation to meet the intellectual and aesthetic demands of digital visual rhetoric. (posted by Olga Godula)

Sless, David: Learning and Visual Communication. London:Croom Helm; New York: Wiley, 1981. This is a book on learning and visual communication. It deals with visual rhetoric.

(Bertrhude Albert)

Smashing Magazine//.[| <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/>]//

//An online magazine founded in 2006 to inform readers about the latest news and trends in web development and design. They have many educational materials as well, even tutorials for how to create your own fonts and other design projects.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

//SmileBox//

//[] (Sarah Kingsley)- Website dedicated to scrap-booking, photo editing, and saving personal files.//

//Smith, Marquad.// Journal of Visual Culture//. 2010 []. (Sarah Kingsley)- Discusses how Western society functions as a visual culture.//

//Sontag, Susan.// Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors//. Picador, 2001. (Sarah Kingsley)- Sontag's discussion on representation made through disease and image.//

Spiegelman, Art "Comix: An Idiosyncratic Historical and Aesthetic Overview," 1988, in //Comix, Essays, Graphics and Scraps//.

The essay lives up to its title. It is a great source for general historical background information on comics.

(Melissa "Brown Coat" Bianchi) - 7

Strickland, Jonathan. "How Machinima Works." //HowStuffWorks.com//, 24 May 2007. Web. 10 April 2011. <http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/machinima.htm >

This website covers all the basics about machinima from the process of production to matters of plagiarism and legislation.

(Melissa "Brown Coat" Bianchi) - 8

Stokes, Suzanne. "Visual Literacy in Teaaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective." []

//This paper discusses how visuals can be used in teaching and learning. It also discusses the importance of interpreting and creating images in a learning enviroment.//

//(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns)//

//Sturken, Marita, and Lisa Cartwright.// Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture//. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.//

//A textbook that introduces readers to a variety of approaches to visual analysis. It explores the functions of visuals in art, science, commerce, science, and the law. It also considers how technological advances and shifting cultural concerns affect visual culture.//

//(Sharon Gilbert)//

The Nietzche Family Circus. Losanjelous. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. <http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/>

Definitely one of my favorite things online. Pairs a random panel from Family Circus with a random quote by Friedrich Nietzche. Invites examination of the effect of text upon image and how that can change depending on the content of the language. (Steven Thompson)

//Top 15 Manipulated Photographs//

//[] (Sarah Kingsley)- Top manipulated photos of the 21st century.//

//Thoman, Elizabeth. "Rise of the Image Culture." []//

//The article discusses the impact of Image Culture on advertising and the creation of a consumer culture.//

//(Posted by Rachel Pettit-Munns)//

Tomaselli, Keya//n. Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation//. 1996.

The book describes the relevance of a semiotic approach to visual representations. There are many filmic examples. The semiotic theory, the history of ethnographic film-making and theories of visual anthropology, visual sociology, and documentary film are widely covered. (posted by Olga Godula)

Tutorial Magazine//. 15 Apr 2009. Web. <http://www.tutorialmagazine.com/>//

//This is a simple site which collects tutorials for various creation/manipulation programs. It's very useful for quickly finding the tutorial you were looking for, or just to expand your knowledge on photo creation/manipulation.//

//(Posted by Andrew Sheppard)//

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Umphlett, Wiley Lee. //The Visual Focus of American Media Culture in the Twentieth Century:The Modern Era, 1893-1945//. Madison: Rosemont Publishing & Printing,// //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">2004. Print. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The time frame covered begins in the late 1800s and a moves through the Great Depression and ends just after WWII. The sections of the book are divided by time periods spanning about 15 years. The book provides very few visuals but goes deep into a broad scope of topics under chapter subheadings, addressing everything in America’s visual culture from “Progressivism’s Reformist Mission” (women’s rights), to Hollywood (the impact of the silent film through the progression to sound), to “Public Amusement” (visual sports, the music industry, and travel). // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">. //

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//Visual Complexity//

// < []> // // -Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010 //

// ** “VisualComplexity.com ** intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.” - [] //

<span style="display: block; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">This site provides a visual means through which to understand extremely complex networks. Check out this image of facebook friends and who knows one another and try it on your facebook account. - []

//Visual Disabilities//

// < []> // // -Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010 //

// Article explaining visual disabilities. Addresses blindness, low vision, color blindness and details about each. When producing visual arguments you should be aware of the affect these impairments may have on a viewer. //

Visual Literacy [] This is a website for teachers of K-8 who are interested in helping children read and write information. It deals with visual literacy.

(Bertrhude Albert)

// Visual Perception and the Visual System //

// <[]> // // <[]> // // -Matthew Jones ENG 4953 Fall 2010 //

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding: 0in;">Two Wikipedia articles. One explains how the visual system of the human body functions. The other explains how this systems perceives the images it encounters. The understanding of which is important in designing image size, angles, presentation distance etc.

Visual Rhetoic: Analysis paper [] This is a link to an analysis of visual rhetoric. It touches many subjects spoken about in class. (Bertrhude Albert)

viz. Visual Rhetoric - Visual Culture - Pedagogy. //[|<http://viz.cwrl.utexas.edu/>]//

//Run by the visual rhetoric workgroup of the [|Digital Writing and Research Lab], which is led by the [|Department of Rhetoric and Writing] at the University of Texas at Austin. This site has a wealth of articles relating to visual rhetoric, links to image databases and archives, interviews with noted persons and even teaching resources. The blog is full of image and text analysis, and unlike an official academic journal, anyone may participate in the discussion.// //(Danielle Frankel)//

Wells, Paul. //Understanding Animation//. London: Routledge, 1998. Print.

Good introductory text for learning the basics of Animation theory.

(Melissa "Brown Coat" Bianchi) - 9

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">//Westbrook, Steve. "Visual Rhetoric in a Culture of Fear: Impediments to Multimedia Production."// <span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">College English //68.5 (2006): 457-480.//

//An Article which examines the modern college students role in visual media. It discusses the limited role which students are given to express themselves via visual creation in modern schools.//

//(Posted By Andrew Sheppard)//

Wikibooks. Visual Rhetoric. 4 Nov 2010. []

A contribution-based textbook on visual rhetoric open to the public to read/make additions to. Started by a visual rhetoric class at James Madison University. (James Graham, 10)

Wood, Allan. Allan - Day 817 - Big Ol' Bag//. 15 Feb. 2007. Web. 28 Nov. 2010. <@http://allancomic.com/index.php>//

// Essentially it's an autobiographical webcomic which has been updated every single day for the past three and a half years. As far as I can tell, it's the first online comic to do such a thing, if not the longest running. It's still updated to this day and is incredibly interesting as it contains an index of every single day so that you can flip through moments of Allan's life represented in comic format. (Steven Thompson) //

Wheeler, Susan G. and Gary S. Wheeler. The Visual Design Primer. Prentice Hall, 2002.

// A textbook designed for beginning graphic communication designers. // // (SID) //

Where the visual meets the Verbal: Collaborations as Conversations [] This is an article about visual Rhetoric and the enculturation that comes with it. (Bertrhude Albert)

Why Visual Communication?

// [] (Sarah Kingsley)- Brief article about the importance of visual communication in contemporary society. //

//<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Young, Jeffrey R. "You Tube Professors: Scholars as Online Video Stars." //<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Education Digest //73.9 (2008): 14-16.//

//This article discusses the use of YouTube in the classroom as an academic aid.//

//(Andrew Sheppard)//

// Daston, Lorraine, and Peter Galison. Objectivity. Zone Books, 2010. Print. // // This is aimed at trying to get us to understand how people communicate through visuals. Shapes and sizes are used often to convey a message to the audience and this is aimed to have us better understand that. // // (BERTRHUDE ALBERT-3) //

// Eggleston, Stephen. "What every Webmaster Needs to know about Copyright Laws." [] // // This helps us better understand copyrights laws. // // (BERTRHUDE ALBERT-5) //

// Goldsmith, A. "Photos always lied. (Cover story)." Popular Photography 98.11 (1991): 68. // // This is basically a story about photo manipulation before it gets out to the public. A major point that I got from this is that photo manipulation is not a new technique. It has been used for years and years before our time. //

// (BERTRHUDE ALBERT-6) //

Kracauer, Siegfried (trans. by Thomas Levin). "Photography." The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. 47-63.

// Speaks about photography. //

// (BERTRHUDE ALBERT-9) //

Macwilliams, Mark W. Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 2008. Print.

// This is a group project of works from different people who work together in order to tell stories with pictures and anime. This is a very helpful tool as it is used in order to inform the audience. //

// (BERTRHUDE ALBERT-10) //