What does it mean to be “visually” literate? How can we encourage students to be more deliberate and careful in how they look at the images that circulate in today’s digital culture?
When Images "Lie": Thinking Historically with Dorothea Lange
When Images "Lie": Traveling to the Pyramids with National Geographic and Thinking about Photo Illustrations with Martha Stewart
When Images "Lie": Dancing with Sarah Palin and Barack Obama
When Images "Lie": Creating Diversity at the University of Wisconsin
About this collection
More than ever before, we have at our fingertips all sorts of visual media. We've always lived in a "visual world," but the important differences today are that:
1. More people than ever before have access to the tools to create and/or manipulate images.
2. More people than ever before have access to publish and distribute created and/or manipulated images.
And these are very good things! Social media tools and web 2.0 spaces allow all sorts of people to create, to share, to publish, and more.
But these changes—and changes in the ways in which our students see, consume, and approach media—require that we help students be careful, critical analysts of the visual content they see.
What I’ve included here are some historical examples and discussion points, some contemporary examples and discussion points, and some ways to educate ourselves and to engage students in critical visual literacy.
I research computer/technological literacies; feminist interpretations of and interventions in computer technologies; and intellectual property issues in...
