Bibliography: Theories of Visual Communication (and some relevant research)

This is a work in progress, but I hope it will grow to become widely useful. Send suggestions, with complete citations for ease of cutting-and-pasting, if possible, and links to publisher sites or reviews.

Allen, Nancy (Ed.). Working with Words and Images: New Steps in an Old Dance. Westport, CT: Ablex. 2002.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1954, 1974.

Barthes, Roland. Image Music Text. Trans. Heath. New York: Hill and Wang. 1977.

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: BBC and Penguin. 1972/1977.

Bernhardt, Stephen. Seeing the Text. College Composition and Communication, 37:1, February 1986, pp. 66-78.

Blair, J. A. The Rhetoric of Visual Arguments. In Charles Hill and Marguerite Helmers, Eds., Defining Visual Rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 2004.

Brasseur, Lee E. Visualizing Technical Information: A cultural critique. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. 2003.

Brumberger, Eva. Visual Communication in the Workplace: A Survey of Practice. Technical Communication Quarterly 16.4, Fall 2007, 369-395.

Burnett, Rebecca E. Technical Communication, Sixth Edition. Boston, MA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005. Chapter 12, Using Visual Forms.

Craft Portewig, Tiffany. Making Sense of the Visual in Technical Communication: A Visual Literacy Approach to Pedagogy. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 34.1 & 2, pp. 31-42, 2004.

Darley, Andrew. Simulating Natural History: Walking with Dinosaurs as Hyper-Real Edutainment. Science as Culture 12.2, pp. 227-256, 2003.

Dinolfo, John, Barbara Heifferon, and Lesly Temesvari. Seeing Cells: Teaching the Visual/Verbal Rhetoric of Biology. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 37.4, pp. 395-418, 2007.

Dragga, Sam and Dan Voss. Cruel Pies: The Inhumanity of Technical Illustrations. Technical Communication 48.3, pp. 265-274, 2001.

Fahnestock, Jeanne. Accommodating Science: The Rhetorical Life of Scientific Facts. Written Communication 15.2, pp. 330-350, 1998.

Feenberg, Andrew. Critical Theory of Technology. New York: Oxford University Press. 1991.

Gross, Alan G. Medical Tables, Graphics and Photographs: How They Work. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 37.4, pp. 419-434, 2007.

Hauser, Gerard. Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1999.

Hocks, Mary E. Toward a Visual Critical Electronic Literacy. Works and Days 17 & 18, pp. 157-172, 1999-2000.

Horton, William. The Almost Universal Language: Graphics for International Documents. Technical Communication 2.4, pp. 682-693, 1993.

Kimball, Miles and Anne Hawkins. Document Design: A Guide for Technical Communicators. Bedford/St. Martins. 2008.

Kostelnick, Charles and Michael Hassett, Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions, SIU Press, 2003.

Kress, Gunther and Theo Van Leeuwen. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design 2nd Ed. London: Routledge. 1996.

Kress, Gunther. Visual and Verbal Modes of Representation in Electronically Mediated Communication: The Potential of New Forms of Text. In I. Snyder and M. Joyce, Eds., Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Age. London: Routledge, pp. 53-79, 1998.

Kress, Gunther. ‘English’ at the Crossroads: Rethinking Curricula of Communication in the Context of the Turn to the Visual. In G. Hawisher and C. Selfe, Eds., Passions, Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies, Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, pp. 66-88, 1999.

Lerner, Neal. Drawing to Learn Science: Lessons of Agassiz. Journal of Technical writing and Communication 37.4, pp. 379-394, 2007.

Longo, Bernadette, Craig Weinert, and T. Kenny Fountain. Implementation of Medical Research Findings Through Insulin Protocols: Initial Findings from an Ongoing Study of Document Design and Visual Display. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 37.4, pp. 435-452, 2007.

Maier, Carmen D., Constance Kampf, and Peter Kastberg. Multimodal Analysis: An Integrative Approach for Scientific Visualizing on the Web. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 37.4, pp. 453-478, 2007.

Mitchell, W. J. T. What do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005.

Mitchell, W. J. T. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1994.

Moore, Patrick and Chad Fitz. Using Gestalt Theory to Teach Document Design and Graphics. Technical Communication Quarterly 2.4, Fall 1993, 389-410.

Moriarty, Sandra. Visual Communication as a Primary System. Journal of Visual Literacy 14:2 (1994): 11-21, http://spot.colorado.edu/~moriarts/primelang.html

Salinas, Carlos. Technical Rhetoricians and the Art of Configuring Images. Technical Communication 11.2, pp. 165-184, 2002.

Schriver, Karen A. Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Texts for Readers. New York: Wiley Computer Publishing. 1997.

Smith, Ken (Editor), Sandra Moriarty (Editor), Gretchen Barbatsis (Editor), Keith Kenney (Editor), Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media

Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2001.

Watkins, J. K., E. Miller, D. Brubaker. The Role of the Visual Image: What are Students Really Learning from Pictorial Representations? Journal of Visual Literacy, 24.1, pp. 23-40, 2004.

Wysocki, Anne F. Seeing the Screen: Research into Visual and Digital Writing Practices. In Bazerman, Charles, Ed. Handbook of Research on Writing: History, Society, School, Individual, Text, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008, pp. 599-611.

Wysocki, Anne F. Seriously Visible. In M. E. Hocks and M. R. Kendrick, Eds., Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Zdenek, Sean. "Just Roll Your Mouse Over Me": Designing Virtual Women for Customer Service on the Web. Technical Communication Quarterly 16.4, Fall 2007, 397-430.