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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:58:21 -0600
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- Subject: Re: Multimedia and hypermedia
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- >Gary Beeson's students are surely right to be skeptical of the claims made
- >implicitly by many visual "supplements" to reports, etc.; but they should be
- >no less skeptical of the claims made by the words on the page.
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- >John Slatin
- >UT Austin
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- John--You took the words (he, he) right out of my fingertips. The "facts,
- ma'am, nothing but the facts"--well, it seems just a trifle naive, don't
- you think? But as for students defending the word against the encroachment
- of the flesh(ly)--mine do it all the time. Not because the pictures claim
- to represent the world as it really and truly is but because they tug at
- the heart and too directly remind us that we are not, au fond, such
- rational critters after all. Words are more successful at masking their
- rhetoric. If students put the numbers in and not the graphs, they think
- they have a neutral representation of the world, as it really and truly is,
- as if words and numbers were natural phenomena, not human constructs too.
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- Nancy Kaplan
- University of Texas at Dallas
- Box 830688
- Richardson, TX 75083-0688
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- (214) 690-2071
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