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Graphicacy is concerned with the capacities people require in order to interpret and generate information in the form of graphics. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Graphics are visual presentations on some surface such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper or stone to inform, illustrate or entertain. ...

Our society is becoming increasingly reliant on graphics to communicate information. Until recently, words and numbers were the main vehicles for communication because of their relative ease of production and distribution compared with graphics. However, advances in information and communications technology and visualization techniques now mean that graphics are far more readily available and widely used than ever before. The 21st century is an age in which it is becoming essential for informed citizens to be able to communicate using graphics, much as those in previous centuries needed to be literate and numerate. Today's citizens must be able to comprehend the information graphics produced by others and this requires that they interpret such information appropriately. However, it is also becoming important that people can present information effectively to others by means of graphics they have generated themselves. Information technology (IT) or information and communication technology (ICT) is the technology required for information processing. ... Visualization can refer to: Graphic Visualization as in any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate any message. ... Literacy is the ability to use text to communicate across space and time. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

Interpretation of graphics is loosely analogous to the process of reading text, while generation of graphics is the counterpart of writing text. However, these analogies should not be taken too far because text and graphics are based on very different symbol systems. For example, whereas text is structured according to formal organisational rules that apply irrespective of the content, this is not the case for graphics. With text structure, the units of information (words) are expected to be organised according to broad conventions (such as being sequenced in orderly rows starting from top left and progressing down the page). However graphics are not subject a similarly stringent set of structural conventions. Instead, it is the content itself that largely determine the nature of the graphic entities and the way they are arranged. Because of these and other fundamental differences between text and graphics, it is appropriate that the processes involved in comprehension and production of graphics are clearly distinguishd from those involved in comprehension and production of text. Reading as an activity: Reading is an activity performed by a human. ... In language, text is a broad term for something that contains words to express something. ... Writing may refer to two activities: the inscribing of characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other constructs that represent language or record information, and the creation of material to be conveyed through written language. ... A system is an assemblage of inter-related elements comprising a unified whole. ... Content can mean Comfort and a feeling of satisfaction Creations, as in open content or free content. ... britney was here not therer but here!For specific meanings of structure in specific fields, see Structure (disambiguation). ... Information is a word which seems to have many different meanings, but is as a rule it closely relates to such concepts as meaning, knowledge, instruction, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. ... Look up word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Word may mean: Word (linguistics), a unit of language that symbolizes or communicates a meaning Microsoft Word, a word processor Word (computer science), a small group of bits Word may also be: In hip hop slang, an exclamation indicating deep and complete... An entity is something that has a distinct, separate existence, though it need not be a material existence. ... Understanding is a psychological state in relation to an object or person whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to be able to deal adequately with that object. ...

Nature of graphics

The concept of graphicacy addresses the characteristic features of graphic information that distinguish it from other forms of representation such as verbal and numerical information. Separating graphicacy from literacy and numeracy helps us to understand the distinctive and complementary types of contributions that graphics, words, and numbers can each make in human communication. It shows why attempts to substitute graphic communication for verbal communication are doomed to failure (as in the case of Bliss Symbolics) Broadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... This article discusses the use of the word Number in Mathematics. ... Literacy is the ability to read and write. ... Numeracy is a term that emerged in the United Kingdom best described as numerical literacy. In the United States, it is familiar to math educators and intellectuals but not in the common usage. ...

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