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(2014) Theories of information, communication and knowledge, Dordrecht, Springer.
Visual information construing
bistability as a revealer of mediating patterns
Sylvie Leleu-Merviel
pp. 237-265
Positing that information is a process, this chapter brings together different concepts to describe the informational process, from difference (Bateson) and diaphora (Floridi) to pattern (Bates) through to aspects, viewpoints and outlooks (Mugur-Schächter). Examples of the visual experience of bistable images show how these concepts come together to support coalescence, which is proposed as the key stage of visual sense-construing. Lictions (i.e. bonds, echoes, strengths, etc.) interlink data knitted together to support, at a higher epistemological level, a template of compatible patterns within a same "horizon of relevance". The formation of such a template constitutes meaning-making, by naturalized coalescence or rationalized contiguity, and socially normalized sharing procedures.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1_10
Full citation:
Leleu-Merviel, S. (2014)., Visual information construing: bistability as a revealer of mediating patterns, in F. Ibekwe-San Juan & T. M. Dousa (eds.), Theories of information, communication and knowledge, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 237-265.
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