Digital Visual Literacy

Bibliographic Data

ID4255682
AuthorsAnne Morgan Spalter (Brown University), Andries Van Dam (0009-0001-1342-3075, Brown University)
Year2008
Volume47
Issue2
Pages93-101
Publication date2008-04-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Into Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00405840801992256
OpenAlexW2092762943
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited4

Like other literacies (textual literacy, numeracy), digital visual literacy (DVL) is the ability both to create and to understand certain types of information, in this case visual materials created with a computer. DVL is now essential in many daily life and workplace tasks, from looking critically at newspaper images or TV evening news to using a digital camera, making a Web site, creating presentations, and modeling and visualizing data in virtually all of the sciences. DVL is, of course, also now essential in all visually oriented disciplines. Defining the underlying principles of DVL and integrating it into established curricula presents many challenges. This article describes some of these and the authors' responses, using experiences from an innovative course at Brown University and a larger-scale community-college-based project, Digital Visual Literacy

Curriculum · Literacy · Mathematics education · Media studies · Multimedia · Newspaper · Numeracy · Pedagogy · Sociology · Visual arts · Visual Literacy · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media

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