Communication - "See what I mean?"

"Lasswell (1948) claimed that an act of communication was adequately explained only when every aspect of his famous question had been answered:

who - says what - in which channel - to whom - with what effect?"

Lasswell, H.D. (1948) The Structure and Function of Communication in Society. In Bryson, (ed.), The Communication of Ideas, Harper & Brs.

 INDIVIDUAL
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INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES             
HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC     
SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL
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GROUP

who	says what in which channel
to whom	with what effect?

My source: 

Morgan, John. & Welton, Peter.  (1992).  See what I mean? An introduction to visual communication. London :  Edward Arnold. pp.2-3.  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0638/92229403-t.html

See also - the concept of information remains an interest here:

Jones, P. (1996) Humans, Information, and Science, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24(3),591-598.

Jones, P. (1996) An overarching theory of health communication? Health Informatics Journal,2,1,28-34.

Periodic Table of Visualization Methods [Net-Gold]

Plenty here to think about... (source ack. Terri Willingham & Net-Gold):

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:50:54 -0000
Subject: [Net-Gold] E-LEARNING: Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy
http://www.visual-literacy.org/

See, especially, the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods:
http://www.visual- literacy. org/periodic_ table/periodic_ table.html

This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or to devise new ways of representing insights.

The didactic approach consists of rooting visualization in its application contexts, i.e. giving students the necessary critical attitude, principles, tools and feedback to develop their own high-quality visualization formats for specific problems (problem-based learning). The students thus learn about the commonalities of good visualization in diverse areas, but also explore the specificities of visualization in their field of specialization (through real-life case studies). They will not only learn by doing, but in doing so contribute new training material for their peers to evaluate (peer learning).

Terri Willingham

Vis blog - Uswim: You See What I Mean?

"Uswim" that is "You see what I mean ?" [ formerly at http://www.uswim.net/ ] covers the range of resources in visualization and visual language in the knowledge society. I've added Uswim to the blog roll, it's well worth a look.

Elsewhere with the landing due 'tomorrow' - 1 DAY 10 HOURS and counting as I write this, you can follow Phoenix's approach to Mars - "Where is Phoenix?" using the simulator you can request - show me Mars from Phoenix.

JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT)

I'm getting to grips with jQuery and determined to master it (somehow!). It's true that efforts in one area pay dividends in another scross Drupal (PHP, mySQL) jQuery, Ruby-Rails (another look soon) and regular expressions (jQuery & Ruby).

I have found another javascript resource (in 2008 c/o the 'Shoes' list) 'JIT - JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit' created by Nicolas Garcia Belmonte. JIT offers a range of tools very close to my heart:

What’s the JIT?

The JIT is an advanced JavaScript infovis toolkit that was based on 5 papers regarding different information visualization techniques.
The JIT implements advanced features of information visualization like Treemaps (with the slice and dice and squarified methods), an adapted visualization of trees based on the Spacetree, a focus+context technique to lay Hyperbolic Trees, and a radial layout of trees with advanced animations (RGraph).

Starting the website in 1997 using Hot Metal Pro I was impressed they included a hyperbolic link browser. Tucked away I've quite a few papers on visualization with a social science emphasis - quadtrees, lexis pencils. Must do something with this, I can see a hypertree with 'holistic care' ((better) realised in theory) and person (that is, person-centred care in practice) at its center.

See also:
http://philogb.github.io/blog/