A relevant ethical issue in our media now a days is consistently Donald Trump’s twitter page. According to Chapter 6, Visual Analysis, from Visual Communication by Lester, the audience depicts the meaning of words and pictures through culture and symbols. Ethics is about right and wrong. Everyone can see it differently, especially in terms of …
February 2018 archive
Feb 20
Stereotypes in Modern Ads
Gender stereotypes have been around since Adam and Eve. It is two thousand and eighteen and we are still seeing them, everywhere we look. We see advertisements every single day, thousands of them. To see women and men being stereotyped a couple hundred, if not thousand times a day isn’t enough, I’ve found another ad …
Feb 15
Analogical Code
What is code? We think of computers and confusing combinations of words, letters and number that make up a website, or a GIF, right? I substitute teach and in one 7th grade math class, I taught code. It is so relevant nowadays that adolescents are learning it. Well in Chapter 3 of Visual Communication, Analogical Code …
Feb 06
Graphic Movement
From when we were little kids, at least in America, we learn (hopefully) to read and write from left to right, top to bottom. The same way that you’re most likely reading this post. I bet your eyes are drawn to the image just below this paragraph and that was kind of the point. …