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Barton and Barton's chapter from 1993 feels like ancient history
to me in its refusal to admit the novice reader and its eagerness
to name-drop Derrida and his ilk. They're not trying very hard
to be readable. If you get stuck, "the visual is ideological" is
not that hard a concept if you remember that ideological =
political = rhetorical, and the choice to represent something in a
certain way is an act of selecting some things over others that is
central and necessary to communication. I think that broader
view undercuts some of their argument.
Harrison's is even farther back (1987). Note how it uses Bitzer
(p. 257) and also something of a greatest hits of rhetorical
theory on pages 258-259 to form what may seem now a very
commonsensical argument about tech comm research to you,
given we've been reading social constructivist stuff for awhile.
Byler is more recent (1998). Consider the alternative goal for
research she suggests on p. 272 - to "free individuals from
sources of domination" and to effect social action - is that what
tech comm should be doing? Should the ultimate goal of
Harrison's organizational research based on social context and
Barton & Barton emphasis on ideological visuals be political
ends?

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