Find a photograph with a caption that seems to declare its meaning more than the facts such as purely date and location. Place a link for the image and describe the caption.
New Media & Social Change
With an emphasis on Photography, how web-based technologies and internet multi-media assist in causing social change.
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Blog Question #11: Broader Context to Facebook “Family” Photos
Look for a photograph from your social network of friends online (an amateur photograph) that you think could tell a broader story. It should describe more than just being admired if you know the people or locations in the image. Does it have a broader context? Describe the image and tell why you believe this.
Blog Question #10: Death of Newspapers, Galleries, Museums – Virtual World?
Thinking of the “death of the newspaper” what do you believe is the role of the current or future art museum? How may this be different than its role in the past?
Blog Question #10: Virtual Art Museum
Thinking of the “death of the newspaper” what do you believe is the role of the current or future art museum? How may this be different than its role in the past?
Adobe Museum of Digital Art • AMDA
The mission of the Adobe Museum of Digital Media is to showcase and preserve groundbreaking digital work and expert commentary to illustrate how digital media shapes and impacts today’s society.
Open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, and accessible everywhere, AMDM is a place to reflect on the importance and impact of digital media in our lives. The museum is an ever-changing repository of eclectic exhibits. Shows will be curated by leaders in art, technology, and business to inspire fresh conversation about our constantly evolving digital landscape.
Blog Question #9: New Media in Journalism Programs
Find one journalism or photojournalism program online and list one of the newer course titles they offer (possibly in New Media or related area).
Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
J216: Advanced Multimedia
In this class students will work on multimedia master’s projects producing sophisticated websites that use various digital publishing applications and technologies. The projects can range from multimedia presentations using video or audio slideshows to databases and map mash-ups to use of social media, mobile devices and other platforms for delivering content and encouraging citizen participation.
The class will be part weekly group discussions and critiques by students and instructors of the proposed master’s projects and progress being made, and part guest lectures and reviews of best practices in multimedia journalism. The class is designed to give students an opportunity to apply the technical and conceptual skills learned in other multimedia classes to producing high-quality online journalism for their final master’s projects.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: This class is only for students who are doing multimedia master’s projects for which Paul Grabowicz, Richard Koci-Hernandez, Jeremy Rue or Mimi Chakarova are the main advisors. These students must take this class in both the Fall and Spring semesters. For students wanting to do longer multimedia stories, sign up for J298 Visual Journalism with Koci, Grant and Chakarova.
Blog Question #9: Branding Identity
Find a photograph online that strongly brands identity and put the link and description for it in your comment.
From: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/whose-eye-what-beholder/
May 25, 2011, 5:00 am <!– — Updated: 5:00 am –>
Whose Eye? What Beholder?
By STEPHEN CROWLEYPresident Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel were clearly of two very different minds about the prospect of Israel reverting to its pre-1967 borders. The official White House photo by Pete Souza — showing the two leaders huddling outside the Oval Office on Friday — didn’t make life easy for picture editors.
By releasing this single picture, was the White House trying to convey a sense of comity? Of presidential confidence? Of a deep understanding between president and prime minister? There was no answering these questions, because no journalists witnessed the moment.
Avi Ohayon/Israeli government, via European Pressphoto Agency The body language in the Israeli government’s version of the same scene at the White House could be interpreted as showing that Mr. Netanyahu isn’t buying what Mr. Obama is selling.
Blog Question #7: Chris Jordon & the Photo-Mosaic
Look up more work by photographer Chris Jordan and choose one that you believe could most strongly move people into action for social change. Briefly describe and analyze the project (make sure to read his captions & statements).
Midway: Message from the Gyre
On Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, the detritus of our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. The nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean.
Blog Question #6: Media Literacy, Important Today?
Why might media literacy education be important for people and society in general? Give an example, from your own knowledge and research of a negative result that occurred online because of the lack of media literacy from the audience.
Confessions from a Bone Saw Artist
by Photo Retoucher Aric Meyer
“Much has been written about the negative effects of such retouching. It normalizes perfection and sets standards of comparison that no individual viewer can achieve. Only a tiny fraction of women wear a size two or zero, but by looking at the pages of some magazines, you’d think that was the norm. Presenting the exceptional as the norm puts the average viewer in a position of constant failure to compare to this artificial and synthetic vision of a person floating in front of us. a ghost of what might be possible if only we could find the formula for breaking our own bodies down or apart and reassembling them in this other vision of self. This plays perfectly into the overall business strategies at work in the fashion and beauty industries (from http://aricmayer.blogspot.com/2009/09/confessions-of-bone-saw-artist.html).”
// From Glamour Magazine Online:On the C.L.: Are You Ready to Start a Body Image Revolution? Oh, Wait–You Already Did!
Blog Question #5: Visual Media for Social Change
- Find an image or website online that you believe has the potential to move you into action for social change. Post the link to the image and state why you believe this.
These are not single photographs that have made social change but they are two projects where children in low income and poverty situations were give cameras to record their own live.
First Exposures Program • SF Camerawork
Students live with their families in transitional or low-income housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and some have recently experienced homelessness. Camerawork collaborates with a wide range of youth service organizations in order to reach young people with diverse backgrounds.
Born into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids is a 2004 American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata’s red light district who were given cameras to document their lives, from their own point of view.
Blog Question #4: Photo-Manipulation in the Digital Age
Did this chapter change your view of photographs in the digital age?
Why or why not? Give a specific image example & link to it.
Reflection on Chapter 2 & Digital Manipulation, Truth, & Reality – After Photography by Fred Ritchen
PHOTO MANIPULATION IN NEWS, ART, & ADVERTISING.
With Ethics what is the difference between being “Fair & Accurate” and Photographic Truth?
Ethics in the Age of Digital Photography from the National Press Photographers Association
Art Photograph by Anthony Goicolea
Photographer, sculptor and video artist Anthony Goicolea acts as the main character in fictional settings. This is an example of how artists are using digital manipulation to create work that examines manipulation in life such as genetic engineering and cloning.
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