Title

Visual Ethics: A Past Case And A Present One

Keywords

Communication; Ethics; Rhetoric; Visual

Abstract

Visual representations are powerful aids to communication, making points with clarity and force but they can offer opportunities for ethical and rhetorical lapses. Two cases are examined: Ernst Haeckel's illustrations of supposed embryonic states in support of his biogentic law in the late-1800s and Jan Schön's graphs of ground-breaking research findings in solid state physics very recently. Both sets of illustration have been shown to be fraudulent. In visual ethics the key questions remain the same: how did the visual come about, what do they mean, and do they show what they claim to represent?

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Publication Title

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Number of Pages

405-411

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/ipcc.2003.1245522

Socpus ID

0242580890 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0242580890

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