Visual Literacy. Hypermedia

• Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. Chap. 6-14 deal with particular media. Chap 3, "Networks of Remediation", deals with definitions and theory. The final chapters deal with the impact of digital media "for our culture's definition of the self." I will put my personal copy in my SIMS mailbox.
• Gilster, Paul. Digital Literacy.New York: John Wiley, 1997. The book is written for a general audience and you may have to skip elementary sections. Chap. 2, "The Nature of Digital Literacy," brings up some interesting issues.
• Card, Stuart K. Readings in information visualization : using vision to think / written and edited by Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, Ben Shneiderman. San Francisco, 1999. I'll bring it to class.

Hypertext

• George P. Landow. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,1992. A thoughtful book throughout. Part 3. "Reconfiguring the Author."
• Yankelovich, Nicole, Norman Meyrowitz, and Andries Van Dam. "Reading and Writing the Electronic Book." Computer 18:10 (Oct. 1985): 15-30. TK7885.A1.C65 ENG.
• Ressler, Sanford. The Art of Electronic Publishing: The Internet and Beyond. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall PTR, 1997. LAW K660 R47

Samples of visualizations,

with illustrations from the web and from Readings in Information Visualization.
• Visible Decisions. Retail sales analysis (Quicktime)
  An example of one bed of data pulled out of a full set of data. See pp. 273-74 for manipulation of data.
• WebBook, a 3-D interactive book of HTML pages. See Stuart K. Card, George G. Robertson, and William York, "The WebBook and the Web Forager: An Information Workspace for the World Wide Web." 544-50. Bookcase | Books | Riffling pages in a WebBook | Result of foraging
• National Library of Medicine Catscan library with access from Mesh headings or the human body.
• Activity on the Internet, Nov. 1995. Sites are represented as ziggurats crowned with globes: the diameter expresses the number of pages, the height the visibility (sites that have pointers to it), the size of a blobe floating overhead the luminosity (number of pointers it casts), and the color the site's domain. See pp. 488-90 for more examples.
• WebTOC is a new tool developed at the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) that gives a visualization of the contents of a Web site. It consists of two parts: the WebTOC Parser and the WebTOC Viewer. The Parser starts with a Web page and follows all the local links, generating a hierarchical representation of the documents local to the site. The Viewer displays this information as a Table of Contents (WebTOC) for the site using a standard Web browser. David A. Nation, Catherine Plaisant, Gary Marchionini, Anita Komlodi.
• A cone tree of 10,000 nodes in the Xerox PARC Web (p. 150). "G. G. Robertson, S. K. Car, J. D. Mackinlay. "Cone Trees: Animated 3-D Visualizations of Hierarchical Information Sturctures. IEEE, 1991.
• Health records and Crime records as visualization of biography. Catherine Plaisant, Brett Milash, Anne Rose, Seth Widoff, Ben Shneiderman, "LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories." 287-94 (more illustrations).
• FilmFinder is a visualization of the holdings of a video store through customer searching. The entire store | videos with Sean Connery |
• The STARLIGHT Information Visualization System. Multiple simultaneous visualization features, including two free-text data sets, a collection of structured information, and several supporting information resources. Full text of article on web.
• Voxel-Man. Also p. 60. Multiple cameras for 3-D view of the body.
• See pp. 228-229 for a visualization of the overload of the Internet at the time of the 1989 earthquake. "Visualizing Network Data," Richard A. Becker, Eick, Wilks.