The Telling Image
The Changing Balance between Pictures and Words in a Technological Age
Published on 15. November 1990
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-0-19-858339-4 (ISBN)
Description
Almost unnoticed, profound changes are taking place in society as our methods of communication come to depend more on pictures and images and less on words and numbers. These changes, which are largely being brought about by the increasing use of computers, affect a wide range of human activities: science and technology, commerce and industry, medicine, education, the media, and the everyday world of shopping, entertainment, and travel.
Bringing to bear a wide range of scientific, technological, and industrial experience on this phenomenon, this highly readable account reviews its history and examines the implications for science, technology, and society. It explores the problems of storing and indexing images in digital computers and goes on to discuss present and future trends in the use of images for communication.
Bringing to bear a wide range of scientific, technological, and industrial experience on this phenomenon, this highly readable account reviews its history and examines the implications for science, technology, and society. It explores the problems of storing and indexing images in digital computers and goes on to discuss present and future trends in the use of images for communication.
Reviews / Votes
`Duncan Davies came to realise that an increasing proportion of what we learn is reaching us in the form of pictures. When he died his book was completed on his behalf and in his memory and of his concepts. It is an important message and as we make whatever transition there is to picture communication this book will help all understand what is happening. Computer Books Review 'This book is crammed with valuable information, sensible argument and is well written. It deserves a place in everybody's reference library.'Les Free, Media Information Australia, No. 67, February 1993
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous colour and halftone plates, figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-858339-4 (9780198583394)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Davies: deceased. Was General Manager, Research ICI, then Chief Scientist & Engineer, Department of Industry.
D. & R. Bathhurst: both retired
D. & R. Bathhurst: both retired
Content
The communications scene; The history of words, numbers, and pictures as records; Words, numbers, and pictures in childhood; Words, numbers, and pictures: sorting and indexing; Pictures and words in engineering, physics, and chemistry; Pictures and words in biology and medicine; Pictures and words in everyday life and study; The way ahead: the future of pictures; Appendix: Jack Meadows: Recent work on computer graphics; Bibliography; Index.