Rebecca Perry, a long-time visual journalist with The Los Angeles Times, has also been a freelance graphic artist for the New York Times, Technology Review and many other publications. She spent a year as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from Michigan State University, and has pursued a master's degree in Media Studies at the New School in New York City where she focused on visual science communication in journalism. She is involved with the Image and Meaning series of conferences and workshops on scientific visualization created by Felice Frankel.
Rebecca's current academic interests center on issues related to visual representation in science, the interactions between interface and inquiry, and the effects of the emergence of a powerful class of tools and technologies facilitating visual narrative creation and exploration of scientific data in the virtual space.
representations in science, scientific visualization, visual communication of science, virtual environments
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