Smith, Ken, Sandra Moriarty, Gretchen Barbatsis, and Keith Kenney (Eds.). Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media.(Book review)

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Smith, Ken, Sandra Moriarty, Gretchen Barbatsis, and Keith Kenney (Eds.). Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2005. Pp. xxii, 601. ISBN 0-8058-4179-2 (pb.) $69.95.

Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media is organized by theoretical areas rather than methodology and media type (p. ix). Specifically, the 12 theoretical areas of focus include aesthetics, cognition, cultural st...

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