Visual Language, Visual Literacy: Education à la Modes

Since the appearance of the term visual literacy in the second half of the 20th century, many authors have spoken of visual competencies. These competencies are acquired through the use of visual language and an understanding that the use of human and cultural capabilities makes people free to create and interpret messages. Furthermore, since the incorporation of new technologies, any prosumer (producer and consumer) can generate visual communication. This research develops and validates a questionnaire proposal to observe visual literacy in users of new technologies to analyze the state of literacy of image prosumers. This questionnaire is composed of 61 items that are related to habits in the reception, consumption, and production of images; the capacities of perception and visual interpretation; and the cultural aspects of the people who use images as a communicative vehicle. The purpose of this proposal is to facilitate the analysis of common characteristics that explain the moment in which people live from the point of view of visual communication and the cultural differences that are related to this field.

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Reading image and thinking image in a new visual age

Global Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.18844/gjhss.v0i0.326 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Seyda Eraslan Taspınar

Keyword(s):

Art Education ◽

Visual Arts ◽

Mass Communication ◽

Visual Literacy ◽

Literacy Skills ◽

Visual Language ◽

Multiple Literacies ◽

Visual World ◽

Scanning Method ◽

Visual Arts Education

We are living in the age in which visually is prevailing intensely and mass communication is based upon image rather than expression. It is a significant skill for our age to comprehend the language of images in this new visual age. Art and visual world are not independent concepts. Visual literacy, a branch of multiple literacies emerged with the development of information and its transfer style, is a visual language utilized to work out issues of this new visual age. In this study, the relation of visual literacy concept to art and art education is investigated based on the literature in the light of technological advancements. Improvability of visual literacy skills through art education is discussed by compiling the results and comments of other studies and investigating the interrelation of art and visual literacy. At the end of the research with the scanning method, evaluations on the relations of visual literacy concept to art education and their interactive sides were carried out, and conclusions and recommendations were stated relevant to raise productive individuals that have visual literacy skills through an effective art education.Keywords: visual literacy, visual thinking, visual arts, visual arts education

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APPLICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN VISUAL LITERACY EDUCATION IN THE PROFESSIONAL FIELD “PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION SCIENCES”

ICERI2019 Proceedings ◽

10.21125/iceri.2019.1907 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kamelia Planska-Simeonova

Keyword(s):

Visual Literacy ◽

Literacy Education ◽

Professional Field ◽

Information Sciences

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Visual literacy education: Developing a curriculum for designers and non-designers

10.31274/etd-20200624-250 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Vitoria Faccin-Herman

Keyword(s):

Visual Literacy ◽

Literacy Education

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Literasi Visual Sebagai Penangkal Foto Hoax Covid-19

JURNAL SOSIAL POLITIK ◽

10.22219/sospol.v6i1.11221 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 114

Author(s):

Radityo Widiatmojo

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Social Media ◽

Visual Literacy ◽

Time Frame ◽

Visual Language ◽

Roland Barthes ◽

Original Image ◽

Positive Perception ◽

Main Concept ◽

Digital Era

The spread of hoax on health issue is a compelling phenomenon in digital era. By focusing on visual literacy as a way to avoid hoax, this qualitative research attempts to find how visual hoax operated. The main concept of Visual Literacy proposed by Maria Avgerinou, reading the spectrum of an image by Roland Barthes and six dimension of photograph life by Widiatmojo are used to analysis visual hoax. The result shows that visual hoax on corona virus occurred as the time frame dimension were diminished, the meaning was changed as well as the narration of the original image, the topic was compromised, the lost of image quality and the distribution on social media by anonymous identity. Therefore, people need to have basic competence in visual literacy, which is the ability to understand visual language accompanied by the ability to think and analyze. It will make an individual produce a positive perception that should be use to avoid hoaxes.

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