Practices Of Looking 2e Making Sense In Social Science Pk

Download or read book Practices of Looking 2e / Making Sense in Social Science Pk written by Marita Sturken and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a new edition, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a comprehensive and engaging overview of how we understand a wide array of visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to play, and to learn. Marita Sturken and LisaCartwright--two leading scholars in the emergent and dynamic field of visual culture and communication--examine the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis and lead students through key theories and concepts. Using clear, accessible language, vivid examples, and more than 250 full-colour illustrations, the authors both explain and apply theory as they discuss how we see paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, the news, the Internet, digital media, and visualizationtechniques in medicine and science.