Messaris' award-winning book places visual literacy critically in the context of mass media consumption. Special emphasis is given to visual manipulation.

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This business-tailored how-to book by Gerald et al. outlines visual literacy elements for practical business purposes. The book has its own website.

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Mok's book gives people who work digitally the necessary examples and principles to systematically build their visual literacy.

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Head's book focuses on the evaluative aspects of visual literacy in the context of interfaces and digital information applications.

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Pörksen's critical and philosophical book advices us not to overinterpret graphic representations and be aware of visual stereotypes.

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Jelkin's new anthology assembles critial views on our ability to assess and use
pictures.

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Berger's book is a critical reflection on our ability to critically assess images.

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Tufte's approach consists of showing great examples and deducing key principles of good active visual literacy from them.

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Marion Müller's text book looks at images in the mass media context and how readers (mis)interpret such visuals.

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Doelker's book looks at the different uses of images and develops a classification of images. He provides reflective tipps on reading images critically.

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This how-to book by Lohr helps reader develop practical and active visual literacy in the context of diagramming.

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This practical guide by Weaver focuses on active visual literacy in the work place, specifically the use of diagrams and charts.

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This anthology by Elkins brings together different authors who critically reflect on passive and active visual literacy in different media.

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This primer on visual literacy from 1974 by Dondis & Dondis is one of the classics of visual literacy.

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Reinmann and Eppler's book looks at how visual literacy can enable personal knowledge management.

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This visual literacy guide by Wilde & Wilde provides straight forward advice on how to build visual competence and

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The books in this category have already attained a cult status in the field of visual literacy. They provide high-quality examples of applied visual literacy, as well as the necessary theoretical background.

This category contains "how-to" books that show practical ways of developing and using visual literacy for communication, education and business.

In this category we include books that look at digital visual literacy, or how to evaluate and produce interactive visualizations on the web and in computer applications. Do you have suggestions for this category? E-mail them to us.

These books by authors from German speaking countries of Europe typically examine visual literacy from a critical point of view and provide both practical applications, as well as theoretical reflections.