Age of the Image Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens

Name: Age of the Image Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens
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ISBN: 9780374534509

ISBN-10: 0374534500

ISBN-13: 9780374534509

Edition: 2014

Authors: Stephen Apkon, Martin Scorsese

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An urgent, erudite, and practical book that redefines literacy to embrace how we think and communicate now We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution in the last five hundred years. And yet we are not popularly cognizant of or conversant with visual storytelling's grammar, the coded messages of its style, and the practical components of its production. We are largely, in a word, illiterate. But this is not a gloomy diagnosis of the collapse of civilization; rather, it is a celebration of the progress we've made and…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/8/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English