Shaping information
the rhetoric of visual conventions
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Author
Contributions
- Hassett, Michael, 1964- - Contributor
Publication
2003 - Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
65,000 words, Guess
Page Count
260 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3576584M
- ISBN-100809325020
- OCLC Control Number50768601
- Library of Congress Control Number2002151536
- Goodreads818165
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- LibraryThing2537323
Classifications
- DDC302.23
- LCCP93.5 .K67 2003
Description
"In this wide-ranging analysis, Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett demonstrate how visual language in professional communication - text design, data displays, illustrations - is shaped by conventional practices that are invented, codified, and modified by users in visual discourse communities. Drawing on rhetorical theory, design studies, and a broad array of historical and contemporary examples, Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions explores the processes by which conventions evolve and proliferate and shows how conventions serve as the medium that designers use to shape, stabilize, and streamline visual information. Additionally, the volume defines the rhetorical nature of conventional practices, seeks to dissolve the tension between convention and invention, and explores the situational variables of specific interactions that can complicate how users deploy and interpret conventions."--Jacket.
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