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Developing a Research Method to Analyze Visual Literacy Based on Cross-Cultural Characteristics

Developing a Research Method to Analyze Visual Literacy Based on Cross-Cultural Characteristics
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Author(s): Felicidad García-Sánchez (University of Salamanca, Spain), José Gómez-Isla (University of Salamanca, Spain), Roberto Therón (Department of Informatics and Automatics, University of Salamanca, Spain), Juan Cruz-Benito (University of Salamanca, Spain)and José Carlos Sánchez-Prieto (University of Salamanca, Spain)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 16
Source title: Research Anthology on Innovative Research Methodologies and Utilization Across Multiple Disciplines
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3881-7.ch018

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Abstract

This chapter presents a new approach of a quantitative analysis used to research the understanding of visual literacy issues. The objective of the research is to find common patterns, opinions, and behaviors between different people regarding the use of visual communication and people's state of visual literacy, while also considering the possible cultural differences related. To explain visual literacy and its implications, the theoretical background about the visual literacy research field is presented first. Then, also within the section on background, the chapter presents the main concepts related to culture, and how it and visual literacy can be analyzed together to enable cross-cultural analysis. To conduct these cross-cultural analyses, this chapter proposes a new kind of quantitative questionnaire-based instrument that includes a section to measure the cultural characteristics of the individual and their level of literacy. This instrument proposal is the main result, since the research field of visual literacy lacks this kind of quantitative approach.

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