Toward an Ethical Rhetoric of the Digital Scientific Image: Learning From the Era When Science Met Photoshop

• Published in: Technical communication quarterly Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 184 - 206
• Main Author: Buehl, Jonathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.2014; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Argumentation; Credibility; digital image manipulation; Ethics; Learning; Rhetoric; rhetoric of science; Science; Software; visual rhetoric

Over the past two decades, scientific editors have attempted to correct "mistaken" assumptions about scientific images and to curb unethical image-manipulation practices. Reactions to the advent and abuse of image-adjustment software (such as Adobe Photoshop) reveal the complex relations a...