VCC304H5 Lecture 6: VCC304
8 Mar 2017
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Week six: style and image in contemporary culture. Toda(cid:455)(cid:859)s discussio(cid:374: contemporary culture and the politics of style (ewen), can we believe what we see, and if not, how do we form meaning out of the. The contemporary image world: (cid:862)when hurricane katrina struck the gulf coast of mississippi, alabama, and louisiana in late august [2005], images of the immense devastation were immediately available to anyone with a television set or an internet connection. What are the risks of images: (cid:862)a(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374)s lo(cid:448)e i(cid:373)ages. We lo(cid:448)e the democratizing power of technologies - such as digital cameras, video cameras, photoshop, and powerpoint - that give us the capability to make and manipulate images. What we are less eager to consider are the broader cultural effects of a society devoted to the image(cid:863) (cid:894) ose(cid:374), (cid:862)i(cid:373)age cultu(cid:396)e,(cid:863) (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1009), p. In 2012, actress gabourey sidibe was the victim of a photoshop prank.
