Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media
內容描述
Description:
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.Mary E. Hocks is Assistant Professor of English and Director of
Writing Across the Curriculum at Georgia State University.Michelle R.
Kendrick is Assistant Professor of English in the Program in Electronic Media
and Culture at Washington State University.
Table of
Contents:
Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction: Eloquent ImagesMary E. Hocks
and Michelle R. Kendrick
1
I
Visual
and Verbal Practices in New Media
1
Critical Theory and the Challenge of New
MediaJay David Bolter
19
2
Seriously VisibleAnne Frances
Wysocki
37
3
The Dialogics of New Media: Video, Visualization, and
Narrative in Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with
MarsHelen Burgess, Jeanne Hamming and Robert
Markley
61
II
Historical Relationships between Word and Image
4
Recovering the Multimedia History of Writing in the
Public Texts of Ancient EgyptCarol S. Lipson
89
5
Digital Images and Classical
PersuasionKevin LaGrandeur
117
6
The Word as Image in an Age of Digita;
ReproductionMatthew G. Kirschenbaum
137
III
Perception and Knowledge in Visual and Verbal
Texts
7
Same Difference: Evolving Conclusions about
Textuality and New MediaNancy Barta-Smith and Danette
DiMarco
159
8
Illustrations, Images, and
Anti-IllustrationsJan Baetens
179
9
Cognitive and Educational Implications of Visually
Rich Media: Images and ImaginationJennifer
Wiley
201
IV
Identities and Culture in Digital Designs
10
Feminist Cyborgs Live on the World Wide Web:
International and Not So International ContextsGail E.
Harwisher and Patricia Sullivan
219
11
Unheimlich Maneuver: Self-Image and Identificatory
Practice In Virtual Reality EnvironmentsAlice
Crawford
237
12
Eloquent Interfaces: Humanities-Based Analysis in the
Age of HypermediaEllen Strain and Gregory
VanHoosier-Carey
257
13
Writing a Story in Virtual
RealityJosephine Anstey
283
Contributors
305
