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MGC3/S14/A9c ( 5 cr ) Power and Agency in VISUAL COMMUNICATION in the Digital Era . Coordinators : Liina Puustinen & Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg. Power and Agency in Visual Communication on the Digital Era SCHEDULE spring 2010 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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MGC3/S14/A9c (5 cr)
Power and Agency in VISUAL COMMUNICATION
in the Digital Era
Coordinators: Liina Puustinen
& Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg
Power and Agency in Visual Communication on the Digital Era
SCHEDULE spring 2010
1. Introduction: Power and agency in visual culture - Liina Puustinen2. Visual literacy and media education - Juha Herkman3. Citizen photojournalism: changing the visual order of the news - Mervi Pantti4. Digital intermediality - Susanna Paasonen5. Visuality and virtuality of perception - Annamari Vänskä6. The Unconscious and Visual Communication - Janne Seppänen 7. Visual communication in the mobile and networked context - Mikko Villi8. Visual communication in practice - Mia Marttiini9. Webcam Aesthetics - Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg10. The impact of pocket-video reporting on journalism and predictions for the
new decade – Anssi Männistö
Assesment
Learning diary: • Length: I page/ lecture; minimum coverage 9 lecturers • Deadline: 29.4. 2010• Reflect on the central issues covered in each lecture and evaluate these
issues together with your learning process. Learning diary is not a documentation of a lecture but a text that reflects your learning.
Essay:• Length: 6-8 pages• Deadline: 29.4.2010• Write an academic essay reflecting at minimum on one topic covered in
lecturers talks. Use as a material lectures, course literature and additional literature given during the lectures.
Learning diary• Write down the main points of the lecture
What was new? How does it relate to what you already know?
• Write your own thoughts and ideas based on the lectureWhat kind of experiences do you have on certain phenomena? What kind of examples can you make up?
• Pose questionsWas something unclear? What kind of further questions the topic may evoke?
Introduction: Power and agency in visual culture
16.3.2010Liina Puustinen
Journalism Research and Development CentreUniversity of Tampere
Visual culture:
• Shared practices of a group, community or society through which meanings are made out of the visual, aural and textual representations and the ways that looking practices are engaged in symbolic and communicative activities.
(Sturken & Cartwright 2009.)
Visual culture
• How does power and agency work within and through the diverse forms of the visual communication in the contemporary digital and global culture?
Power
Foucault:
• Relationship• Network• Resistance• Violence vs. productive power
Agency
• Freedom to act within the discourses of power
’Empowerment’: • visual literacy• Production of visual media content
(e.g. social media)Agency in the digital era?
OUTLINE of the lectures:I GENERAL CONCEPTS AND THEORY OF VISUAL
COMMUNICATION 1. Introduction: Power and agency in visual culture - Liina Puustinen2. Visual literacy and media education - Juha Herkman4. Digital intermediality - Susanna Paasonen5. Visuality and virtuality of perception - Annamari Vänskä6. The Unconscious and Visual Communication - Janne Seppänen
II NEW PHENOMENA & NEW FORMS OF AGENCY ON THE DIGITAL ERA
3. Citizen photojournalism: changing the visual order of the news - Mervi Pantti7. Visual communication in the mobile and networked context - Mikko Villi9. Webcam Aesthetics - Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg10. The impact of pocket-video reporting on journalism and predictions for the new decade
– Anssi Männistö
III VISUAL COMMUNICATION AS PROFESSION8. Visual communication in practice - Mia Marttiini
Power and image
Power and gaze: to look and to be looked at
- Panopticon
Photograph- Photographic truth- Affective power
example advertisements
• How does power and agency work through these commercials?- What kinds of power relationships and positions does the ad represent? - How does it position the viewer? How do you position yourself as viewer?
Madonna:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGZ76iJdToU&feature=player_embedded
Permanent textmarker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGoOigQzDx8
At least 14 children killed in Gaza terror as Israel defies demands for a ceasefireMail Online 06th January 2009
Last updated at 1:48 AM on 06th January 2009
Images of Trust Audiences Experiencing News Images:
Do people have confidence in the news images of the press and
internet newspapers?
The question of trust /confidence
• Trustworthiness of journalism & photojournalism
• Trust/confidence is a relationship of productive power
• Digital processing of images
ConclusionTentative results on the qualitative interviews Silent confidence• People do not think about the trustworthiness of the news image before
they suspect something is fake.
Three levels of confidence • 1. the topic of the picture, the inner ‘reality’ of the image, is the frame of
interpretation and also the basis for confidence or suspect• 2. the photograph itself is the frame of interpretation and the basis for
confidence or suspect• 3. the context - the text of the article and news media - gives a frame of
interpretation, and constructs the relation of confidence or suspect to the image. It reflects the confidence on the newspaper (print or online).