Beyond Visual Culture: The Challenge of Visual Ecology

Marcum, James W.

doi:10.1353/pla.2002.0038

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“…Many researchers in the field of ecology have cited Ellison 9 as a primary reference for their work on data visualization. 35–37 Marcum 38 discussed the challenges to data visualization in ecology from the perspective of librarianship and human society. In this paper, he introduced the concept of visual ecology, in which the emphasis is on observation and description, and a more intensive focus on people and information-related behavior is utilized.…”

Section: Visualizations In Academic Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data and visual displays in the Journal of Ecology 1996–2016

Friedman

2020

Information Visualization

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Scholars in scientific disciplines face unique challenges in the creation of visualizations, especially in publications that require insights derived from analyses to be visually displayed. The literature on visualizations describes different techniques and best practices for the creation of graphs. However, these techniques have not been used to evaluate the impact of visualizations in academic publications. In the field of ecology, as in other scientific fields, graphs are an essential part of journal articles. Little is known about the connections between the kind of data presented and domain in which the researchers conducted their study that together produces the visual graphics. This study focused on articles published in the Journal of Ecology between 1996 and 2016 to explore possible connections between data type, domain, and visualization type. Specifically, this study asked three questions: How many of the graphics published between 1996 and 2016 follow a particular set of recommendations for best practices? What can Pearson correlations reveal about the relationships between type of data, domain of study, and visual displays? Can the findings be examined through an inter-reliability test lens? Out of the 20,080 visualizations assessed, 54% included unnecessary graphical elements in the early part of the study (1996–2010). The most common type of data was univariate (35%) and it was often displayed using line graphs. Twenty-one percent of the articles in the period studied could be categorized under the domain type “single species.” Pearson correlation analysis showed that data type and domain type was positively correlated ( r = 0.08; p ≤ 0.05). Cohen’s kappa for the reliability test was 0.86, suggesting good agreement between the two categories. This study provides evidence that data type and domain types are equally important in determining the type of visualizations found in scientific journals.

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Section: Visualizations In Academic Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data and visual displays in the Journal of Ecology 1996–2016

Friedman

2020

Information Visualization

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“…To inform, to persuade, and to promote are general topics in business-related communications. Views suggested by Yates and Orlikowski (1992, 2002, 2007 assert that genres of organizational communication can be characterized by having similarities in substance (general topics and specific themes) and forms, which refers to the observable features of structure, language, medium, or symbol. While Yates and Orlikowski's elaborations of genres in organizational communication-and many others using their ideas-have a focus on oral and written communication, this study transfers the reasoning to the pictorial field.…”

Section: Mise En Scène-pictorial Motifs With Temporal Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Addison, 2003) have shown signs of giving way to a more open interest in visual rhetoric, particularly among social scientists exploring our expanding and dynamic visual and pictorial culture (not least in anthropology). In 1994, Mitchell argued for a critical “pictorial turn” (after the linguistic ditto), in the humanities, whereas Marcum (2002: 189) says that the “new reality is not just a visual culture—it is a visual ecology” (see also Curtis, 2010; Marcum, 2002; Mitchell, 1986, 1994).…”

Section: On Seeing and Visualizing Timementioning

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Time and temporality in online corporate pictorials

Rämö

2016

Time & Society

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Many different social contexts are embedded in, and mediated by, visual practices, so too in corporate communication. The specific aim of this paper is to use the concept of scopic regimes as a means of understanding pictorial representations of time and temporality in online corporate communication. It is argued in this paper that the temporal reference has changed direction, from pointing backward to forward. What has been a matter of predominantly portraying important corporate achievements to posterity has increasingly become a matter of appearing for impatient online viewers today as responsible for the future. Three illustrative examples of time and temporality in online corporate pictorials are included and discussed, representing movement, moment, and the allegory of time. KeywordsCorporate communication, pictorials, responsibility, scopic regimes, temporality, time Setting the stageFor most people, seeing is the dominant sense, what we see and how we comprehend the visual information is influenced by our expectations and the feelings these evoke in us. The focus of the interest in a media-saturated culture is in the extent to, as well as the manner, in which different forms of social and cultural practices are structured or shaped by images and how these images are seen and perceived. The perception of time and temporality

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“…Postmodern faculty and their students are the products of a visual culture that, in James Marcum's view, has now evolved into a visual ecology. He describes this as ''a comprehensive and continuous participatory event, a universe of action, and a world of knowledge and learning rather than of information transfer [13].'' Academic librarians are just beginning to explore the extent to which our incoming students and faculty differ from those with whom we have previously worked.…”

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confidence: 99%

Collection management as risk management

Casserly

2004

Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

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Risk and technological changes are inexorably linked, and librarians, as experts, must communicate these risks to lay persons and develop appropriate risk management strategies. This paper identifies some of the risks to library primacy, library and professional values, collection integrity, and scholarly communication and the information marketplace that those involved in collection development and acquisition of library materials may encounter. The sources of these risks are briefly described, and the author suggests some risk management strategies.

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Beyond Visual Culture: The Challenge of Visual Ecology

Cited by 31 publications

References 49 publications

Data and visual displays in the Journal of Ecology 1996–2016

Data and visual displays in the Journal of Ecology 1996–2016

Time and temporality in online corporate pictorials

Collection management as risk management

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