Revisualizing Simple Data: Teaching Alternative Data Visualizations to Students through Bernie Sanders’ Social Media Graphic on the Digital Divide

Brumberger’s critical piece on teaching business student’s data visualizations presents complications about software usage in cases of charts and graphs. While complex data visualization creation may be necessary, another approach may help ease students into the understanding of visual rhetoric surrounding data. This approach, involving simple data statistics, creates a representation of the data through

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Passive Consumption of Images: Examining Instagram “Reality” in the First-year College Writing Classroom

“No visual perception is a pure apprehension of objective reality.” Charles HIll, “Reading the Visual in College Writing Classes” Hill recognizes the “epistemic power” of images and argues that college writing courses should make an effort to expose students to the complexity of visual communication in order to study and analyze it—largely because United States