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  1. Jan 2025
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    1. Today images, symbols, graphs, diagrams, artifacts, andmany other visual symbols are particularly significant. Thus, the idea of dif-ferent types of “visual literacy” would seem to be an important one.

      This reminds me of the take that emojis are (on a super basic level) reinventing heiroglyphics as a way to communicate via symbols. So in that respect--this reliance on visual literacy has ALWAYS been a way for us to communicate, we simply lean into more or less depending on the era and culture