[Week 1] January 11 — Why Visual Communication

• Syllabus and course review.
• An introduction to Visual Communication.

Sturken, M., & Cartwright, L. (2008). Introduction. In Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Second Edition edition, pp. 1–9). New York: Oxford University Press.

Lester, P. M. (2014). Visual Communication. In Visual Communication: Images with Messages (6 edition, pp. 2–12). Boston: Wadsworth Publishing.

Mitchell, W. J. T. (2005). There Are No Visual Media. Journal of Visual Culture, 4(2), 257–266.

Additional suggested reading:

Mirzoeff, N. (2006). On Visuality. Journal of Visual Culture, 5(1), 53–79.

[Week 2] January 18 — Human Perception and Visual Cognition

Lester, P. M. (2014). Visual Cues. In Visual Communication: Images with Messages (6 edition, pp. 14–41). Boston: Wadsworth Publishing.

Additional suggested reading:

Ware, C. (2000). The Environment, Optics, Resolutions, and the Display [Excerpt]. In Information visualization: Perception for design (pp. 31–63). San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann, c2000 (Norwood, Mass.).

Ware, C. (2000). Color [Excerpt]. In Information visualization: Perception for design (pp. 95–117). San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann, c2000 (Norwood, Mass.).

Ware, C. (2000). Visual Attention and Information that Pops Out [Excerpt]. In Information visualization: Perception for design (pp. 139–162). San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann, c2000 (Norwood, Mass.).

Ware, C. (2000). Static and Moving Patterns [Excerpt]. In Information visualization: Perception for design (pp. 179–191). San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann, c2000 (Norwood, Mass.).

[Week 3] January 25 —Mass Media: Simulation and Politics *

Baudrillard, J. (1983). Simulations [Excerpt]. (pp. 1–30). Semiotex(e).

Additional suggested reading:

Sturken, M., & Cartwright, L. (2008). Images, Power, and Politics. In Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Second Edition edition, pp. 10-44). New York: Oxford University Press.

Sturken, M., & Cartwright, L. (2008). The Mass Media and the Public Sphere. In Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Second Edition edition, pp. 151-188). New York: Oxford University Press.

[Week 4] February 1 — (in)Visibility and Surveillance *

Foucault, M. (1995). The means of correct training. In Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (REP edition, pp. 170–194). New York: Vintage

Fuster, G. G., Bellanova, R., & Gellert, R. (2015). Nurturing Ob-Scene Politics: Surveillance Between In/Visibility and Dis-Appearance. Surveillance & Society, 13(3/4), 512–527.

Additional suggested reading:

Foucault, M. (1995). Panopticism. In Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (REP edition, pp. 195–228). New York: Vintage.

Sturken, M., & Cartwright, L. (2008). Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge. In Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Second Edition edition, pp. 72-108). New York: Oxford University Press.

[Week 5] February 8 — Semiotic, Space, and Maps*

De Certeau, M. (2002). Walking in the city. In The Practice of Everyday Life (2nd ed., pp. 91–110). Berkeley, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; London, UK: University of California Press.

Shields, R. (1989). Social spatialization and the built environment: the West Edmonton Mall. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 7(2), 147 – 164.

Additional suggested reading:

Harpold, T. (1999). Dark continents: A critique of Internet meta geographies. Postmodern Culture, 9(2).

Afzal, S., Maciejewski, R., Jang, Y., Elmqvist, N., & Ebert, D. S. (2012). Spatial Text Visualization Using Automatic Typographic Maps. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(12), 2556–2564

[Week 6] February 15—Images in Advertising *

– CRITICAL VISUAL REFLECTION DUE

Barthes, R. (1977). The Rhetoric of the Image. Image-Music-Text, 15–27.

Soar, M. (Ed.). (2003). The advertising photography of Richard Avedon and Sebastião Salgado. In Image ethics in the digital age (pp. 269–294). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Additional suggested reading:

Sturken, M., & Cartwright, L. (2008). Consumer and the Manufacturing of Desire. In Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Second Edition edition, pp. 189-236). New York: Oxford University Press.

[Week 7] February 22 — Reading Week

[Week 8] March 1 — Reproduction, Ethics, and Seeing *

Benjamin, W. (2008). The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In M. W. Jennings, B. Doherty, & T. Y. Levin (Eds.), The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (1st ed., pp. 19–55). Cambridge, Mass.; London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Additional suggested reading:

Sturken, M., & Cartwright, L. (2008). Reproduction and Visual Technologies. In Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Second Edition edition, pp. 109-150). New York: Oxford University Press.

[Week 9] March 8 — Gendered Gazes *

Mulvey, L. (1989). Visual pleasure and narrative cinema. In Visual and other pleasures (pp. 14–26). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan.

Berger, J. (1972). Ways of seeing (pp. 45–64). New York: Penguin Books and British Broadcasting.

Additional suggested reading:

Fron, J., Fullerton, T., Morie, J. F., & Pearce, C. (2007). The hegemony of play. In Situated Play: Proceedings of Digital Games Research Association 2007 Conference. Tokyo, Japan (pp. 1–10).

[Week 10] March 15 — Race and Representation *

Roth, L. (2009). Looking at Shirley, the ultimate norm: Colour balance, image technologies, and cognitive equity. Canadian Journal of Communication, 34(1), 111–136.

Dyer, R. (2005). On the manner of whiteness. In White privileges: Essential readings to the other site of racism (pp. 9–14). Paula Rothenberg.

Additional suggested reading:

Lester, P. M. (2014). Visual Stereotypes. In Visual Communication: Images with Messages (6 edition, pp. 98-127). Boston: Wadsworth Publishing.

[Week 11] March 21 — Digital Culture and Social Media *

Manovich, L. (2016). Instagrammism and contemporary cultural identity. In Instagram and Contemporary Image (pp. 1–25).

Tifentale, A. (2016). The Networked Camera at Work: Why Every Self-portrait Is Not a Selfie, but Every Selfie is a Photograph. In Riga Photography Biennial 2016 (pp. 74–83). Latvia: Riga Photography Biennial.

Additional suggested reading:

Sturken, M., & Cartwright, L. (2008). Post-modernism and Popular Culture. In Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Second Edition edition, pp. 237-278). New York: Oxford University Press.

Manovich, L. (2001). The Interface [Excerpt]. In The Language of New Media (pp. 62–88). MIT Press.

[Week 12] March 28 — Virtual worlds and Avatars *

Ducheneaut, N., Wen, M.-H., Yee, N., & Wadley, G. (2009). Body and mind: a study of avatar personalization in three virtual worlds. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1151–1160). ACM.

Neustaedter, C., & Fedorovskaya, E. (2009). Presenting Identity in a Virtual World Through Avatar Appearances. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2009 (pp. 183–190). Toronto, Ont., Canada, Canada: Canadian Information Processing Society.

Turkle, S. (1994). Constructions and reconstructions of self in virtual reality: Playing in the MUDs. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 1(3), 158–167.

Additional suggested reading:

Manovich, L. (2001). The form [Excerpt]. In The Language of New Media (pp. 244–285). MIT Press.

Dibbell, J. (1993, December). A Rape in Cyberspace. The Village Voice. 16p.

[Week 13] April 5 — Visualizations *

Munzner, T. (2014). What’s vis, and why do it? In Visualization Analysis and Design (1 edition, pp. 1–19). Boca Raton: A K Peters/CRC Press.

Tufte, E. R. (1990). Escaping Flatland. In Envisioning Information (1st edition, pp. 12–35). Graphics Press.

Additional suggested reading:

Ware, C. (2000). Visual Objects and Data Objects. In Information visualization: Perception for design (pp. 293–324). San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann, c2000 (Norwood, Mass.).

[Week 13] April 12 — TBA

– FINAL PAPER DUE