Since we are ceaselessly consuming tons of photographs in our everyday lives, it is now more important than ever to ask ourselves how they reflect, communicate, and shape cultural meaning. Reading, ...

Multi-modal literacy supports the ability to create meaning through the combination of different modes including written, spoken, visual, audial, spatial, and gestural means. Each mode provides a ...

Our visuality, “how we see; how we are able, allowed, or made to see” (Foster, 1988, p. ix), is the barometer of our imagination. What we envision as possible, probable or preferable futures (Amara, ...

Even in teaching materials and trusted sources, images are not neutral. Here, Alexius Chia explains how to guide learners from superficial impressions to being able to critique perspective, power and ...

Visual cultures represent an interdisciplinary domain that interrogates the ways in which images and visual artefacts are produced, consumed and interpreted within contemporary society. Drawing upon ...

Digital literacy is not a topic architects usually consider. For Aliza Leventhal, Head of the Technical Services Section, Prints & Photographs Division at the ‎Library of Congress, the processes of ...