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Matuk, Camillia Faye.

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Narratives in Mind and Media: A Cognitive Semiotic Account of Novices Interpreting Visual Science Media.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narratives in Mind and Media: A Cognitive Semiotic Account of Novices Interpreting Visual Science Media./
Author:	Matuk, Camillia Faye.
Description:	427 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-02, Section: B, page: 1183.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-02B.
Subject:	Speech Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3433601
ISBN:	9781124393735

Narratives in Mind and Media: A Cognitive Semiotic Account of Novices Interpreting Visual Science Media.
Matuk, Camillia Faye.

Narratives in Mind and Media: A Cognitive Semiotic Account of Novices Interpreting Visual Science Media. - 427 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-02, Section: B, page: 1183.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2010.

Visual representations are central to expert scientific thinking. Meanwhile, novices tend toward narrative conceptions of scientific phenomena. Until recently, however, relationships between visual design, narrative thinking, and their impacts on learning science have only been theoretically pursued. This dissertation first synthesizes different disciplinary perspectives, then offers a mixed-methods investigation into interpretations of scientific representations. Finally, it considers design issues associated with narrative and visual imagery, and explores the possibilities of a pedagogical notation to scaffold the understanding of a standard scientific notation. Throughout, I distinguish two categories of visual media by their relation to narrative: Narrative visual media, which convey content via narrative structure, and Conceptual visual media, which convey states of relationships among objects. Given the role of narrative in framing conceptions of scientific phenomena and perceptions of its representations, I suggest that novices are especially prone to construe both kinds of media in narrative terms.

ISBN: 9781124393735Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017408
Speech Communication.

Narratives in Mind and Media: A Cognitive Semiotic Account of Novices Interpreting Visual Science Media.
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520 $a Visual representations are central to expert scientific thinking. Meanwhile, novices tend toward narrative conceptions of scientific phenomena. Until recently, however, relationships between visual design, narrative thinking, and their impacts on learning science have only been theoretically pursued. This dissertation first synthesizes different disciplinary perspectives, then offers a mixed-methods investigation into interpretations of scientific representations. Finally, it considers design issues associated with narrative and visual imagery, and explores the possibilities of a pedagogical notation to scaffold the understanding of a standard scientific notation. Throughout, I distinguish two categories of visual media by their relation to narrative: Narrative visual media, which convey content via narrative structure, and Conceptual visual media, which convey states of relationships among objects. Given the role of narrative in framing conceptions of scientific phenomena and perceptions of its representations, I suggest that novices are especially prone to construe both kinds of media in narrative terms.
520 $a To illustrate, I first describe how novices make meaning of the science conveyed in narrative visual media. Vignettes of an undergraduate student's interpretation of a cartoon about natural selection; and of four 13-year olds' readings of a comic book about human papillomavirus infection, together demonstrate conditions under which designed visual narrative elements facilitate or hinder understanding.
520 $a I next consider the interpretation of conceptual visual media with an example of an expert notation from evolutionary biology, the cladogram. By combining clinical interview methods with experimental design, I show how undergraduate students' narrative theories of evolution frame perceptions of the diagram (Study 1); I demonstrate the flexibility of symbolic meaning, both with the content assumed (Study 2A), and with alternate manners of presenting the diagram (Study 2B); finally, I show the effects of content assumptions on the diagrams students invent of phylogenetic data (Study 3A), and how first inventing a diagram influences later interpretations of the standard notation (Study 3B).
520 $a Lastly, I describe the prototype design and pilot test of an interactive diagram to scaffold biology students' understanding of this expert scientific notation. Insights from this dissertation inform the design of more pedagogically useful representations that might support students' developing fluency with expert scientific representations.
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