Modern Visual Evidence

This book shows you how to use--and limit--video, audiovisual and computer-generated evidence in tort, complex securities actions, infringement actions and any action involving expert witnesses.

Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative in their use of spectacle. Its most striking feature is the use of the one-to-one analogies between Greene's drama and modern cinema, in order to explore the plays' stage effects.

�Using Visual Evidence is a book about visual literacy. It both advocates and equips the scholarly use of visual images as visual evidence. Here, the visual is not mere illustration. It is the text.. .History is an artificial means of analyzing something which no longer exists. But it leaves its imprint through evidence, and frequently that evidence is visual. Initially, all societies gave the visual image a predominant role in the communication of information, but after the rise of the book, the printed word superseded the visual image, relegating it to a supporting role.. .Recently, however, the image has come roaring back into a dominant position. Yet sadly, scholarship has remained focused mostly on the written word.. .This is unfortunate, because images are made by human beings and therefore have embedded in them much information about their makers. They are primary sources not only for the study of what has been shown, but also for the study of the people, cultures and societies that made them. This remains true from the earliest graphic arts through to the complex media of today.. .This book enables a rediscovery of the visual skills of the past in order to facilitate the investigation of history and the understanding of the present. It is composed of specially-commissioned chapters by international authorities on the use of visual evidence all the way from painting to political prints, photographs, documentary, feature films, television, news and advertising. All combine to support the point that with visual evidence, the image is the text.�..

How seeing turns into showing, how empirical observations turn into explanation and evidence. How to produce and consume evidence presentations.

Visual and multimedia digital technologies are transforming the practice of law: how lawyers construct and argue their cases, present evidence to juries, and communicate with each other. They are also changing how law is disseminated throughout and used by the general public. What are these technologies, how are they used and perceived in the courtroom and in wider culture, and how do they affect legal decision making? In this comprehensive survey and analysis of how new visual technologies are transforming both the practice and culture of American law, Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel explain how, when, and why legal practice moved from a largely words-only environment to one more dependent on and driven by images, and how rapidly developing technologies have further accelerated this change. They discuss older visual technologies, such as videotape evidence, and then current and future uses of visual and multimedia digital technologies, including trial presentation software and interactive multimedia. They also describe how law itself is going online, in the form of virtual courts, cyberjuries, and more, and explore the implications of law’s movement to computer screens. Throughout Law on Display, the authors illustrate their analysis with examples from a wide range of actual trials.

Display of information for paper and computer screens; principles of information design, design of presentations. Depicting evidence relevant to cause and effect, decision making. Scientific visualization.