Monday, April 11, 2011

The Breakout of the Visual

Observe:
The presentation had a lot of good points, although some had a large amount of information with a small font which made it a little difficult to read at points. They had very clear examples such as the graph, it was easy to understand their points.

Infer:
Pictures versus plain text. Print is changing, there are more visuals. Print can make visuals with metaphors. Print makes readers into viewers. Words are now pictures. The electronic book and electronic magezine. Hyper media and hypertext. Email cannot give visuals.


Quesitons:
Why can't email offer visuals if you can attach visuals?
Do electronic magazines have more visuals to offer than electronic books?
How can you make visuals with no pictures in books?

2 comments:

  1. I don't think you can make visuals in books with no pictures. Although one could argue that metaphoric language could give the reader a clear "visual" of what the author is trying to say. Even so, this is not a true "visual". I think a visual aid is composed of mostly pictures, of words, so I don't think creating such a visual is possible.

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  2. I think electronic magazines have more visuals to offer than electronic books because they are electronic representations of actual magazines and books and magazines always uses colors and pictures to express the topic of an article where books are mostly made to tell stories through text.

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