Visual Literacy: Additional Resources

Grech, Anton. 2017. "The Relevance of Art-Oriented Processes in the Formation of Architects and Engineers." International Journal of Education through Art 13 (2): 179-92. doi:10.1386/eta.13.2.179_1.

Joanna C. Dunlap & Patrick R. Lowenthal (2016) "Getting graphic about infographics: design lessons learned from popular infographics," Journal of Visual Literacy, 35:1, 42-59, DOI: 10.1080/1051144X.2016.1205832

Lazet, Amy. "Seeing Surrogacy: Digital Image Quality & Student Visual Literacy." Visual Resources Association Bulletin 47, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2020 2020): 1-15.

Roth, Robert E. “Cartographic Design as Visual Storytelling: Synthesis and Review of Map-Based Narratives, Genres, and Tropes.” 
Cartographic Journal 58, no. 1 (February 2021): 83–114.

Analysis of Storytelling and Depiction, Barbara Tversky, August 30, 2019
This talk was part of the Visualization for Informal Science Education conference held at the Exploratorium in California.
Columbia University professor Barbara Tversky describes how visual representations can be empowered through narrative, providing them with agency, emotion, and suspense.

Coded Bias (this film is made available through the BAC Library and can be accessed through the BAC's Moodle account):
Facial recognition is visual recognition through programming. This documentary (by Shalini Kantayya) explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. For further information, website for coded bias (including a trailer).