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Peer reviewedBarton, Ben F.; Barton, Marthalee S. – Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1993
Treats visuals as sites of power inscription. Advances a Foucauldian design model based on the Panoptican--Jeremy Bentham's architectural figure for empowerment based on bimodal surveillance. Notes that numerous examples serve in demonstrating that maximum effectiveness results when visuals foster simultaneous viewing in the two panoptic modes,…
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