Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique (Baywood's Technical Communications)

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Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique demonstrates the ways in which the leading technical visuals of information design-graphs charts diagrams tables illustrations and information visualization-are designed and read. Using genre theory as an analytical tool the author makes the argument that problems with these visual forms are not necessarily the result of a designers poor decisions or a readers poor interpretation skills. Instead there may be inherent problems in the visual genres themselves that are a direct result of their cultural history and current use.