Filippo A. Salustri wrote:
>
> I had a Master's student a few years ago who wanted to write his thesis
> as only concept maps.
> ...
> You should have seen the blank stares I got from
> engineering colleagues when I bounced this idea off them.
>
I guess it could also be a problem of "visual literacy". I read
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23wwln-future-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=magazine
kevin kelly article "Becoming Screen Literate" The New York Times Magazine
and I found this concepts very interesting. Even if our society it is
getting aware of the importance of visual language for our contemporary
communication, visual language need more research to get to the point of
being totally accepted in artefacts where traditionally we use text. But
maybe it is the same problem it was for text literacy that has required a
long list of innovations and techniques that permit ordinary readers and
writers to manipulate text in ways that make it useful and in order to make
sense of it. (For instance, if you have a large document, you need a table
of contents to find your way through it. And more: quotation symbols,
alphabetic index, page numbers and a lot more. They have been invented in
the 13th century. As it took several hundred years for the consumer tools of
text literacy to crystallize after the invention of printing, we now need
“visual-literacy tools” for fully understand something that is completely
made of image.
cheers
gaia
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Politecnico di Milano
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