Digital visual literacy

Four things that stood out from reading Spalter and Dam (2008) on Digital Visual Literacy:

a) The different disciplines involved in the creation of Digital Visual Literacy such as Vision Science, Computer and Graphics Visualization and Art and Design.

b) Critical viewing is underdeveloped compared to critical reading (p95)

c) Intuitive, creative thinking associated with visual art and design becomes at least as valued in the market place as the sequential left-brained-style analysis that had dominated in previous centuries (p97)

d) Historical suspicion of images can be allayed by better understanding of how visual materials are made and interpreted. (p98)

Reference:

Spalter, A M and van Dam, A (2008) Digital visual literacy, Theory into practice, 47, 93-101.