TY  - BOOK
AU  - Apkon,Stephen
TI  - The age of the image: redefining literacy in a world of screens 
SN  - 9780374102432
AV  - LB 1068 .A75 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Visual literacy
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Visual Perception
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258); All the world's a screen -- What is literacy? -- The brain sees pictures first -- The evolution of the audience -- The big business of images -- Grammar, rhythm, and rhyme in the age of the image -- Teaching a new generation -- The sharpening picture
N2  - "We live in a world awash in images. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing. and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution in the last 500 years. And yet we are not popularly cognizant of or conversant with the grammar of visual communication, the coded messages of its style, and the practical components of its production. We are largely, in a word, illiterate. But this is not a gloomy diagnosis of the collapse of civilization; rather, it is a celebration of the progress we've made and a plan to seize the potential we're poised to enjoy. Now is the time, Apkon argues, to transform the way we teach, create, and communicate so that we can all step forward together into a rich and stimulating future."--Jacket
ER  -