WEEK THREE - Visual literacy

Sherry Turkles: the Goldy locks effect: This is where two people cant get enough of each other, by texting! the person is at a distance and they can control how much you talk to them/when to stop- this is what people love, you can control it! I think this is bad, since people don't know how to have a conversation in real life without deleting/edit a text message but having a conversation that has no control, we swap conversation for connection! this doesn't do well with child development/ growing up. - Connected but not alone,2012, Ted Talk ,02/12 http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html,: 05:57

"we expect more from technology- rather from each other" because we become lonely, technology is our xscape. - Connected but not alone,2012, Ted Talk ,02/12 http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html : 12.04.



Visual Literacy is us as a person decoding:

•  text
•  images - anchorage, words anchor images.
• cinematography
• Objects

Which others have encoded with typical codes and conventions which relate to the genre or narrative.

If we watch a love film or a horror film for example, we see the same thing happen over and over.
Love film: couple break up/or get together-- someone gets in the way -- the original couple is always back together in the end
Horror films- the protagonist defeats the antagonist somehow.
But if we didnt see these typical story lines, how would we react? would we feel satified?

We can also neglect things we dont want too see (Deterrorization):

• Spiders- we block it out on TV/cinema/real life
• being outside your body - a digital life online (fake/real: runescape, facebook, world of warcraft- all big distractions for every day life!)

We learn more:

• real life experiences rather than watching TV or the news!

Because directors show us what they want us to see, sometimes using propagranda.The more we hear or see something the more we believe it, this is why I believe strongly of propaganda and the influence it has on mass audiences.

Cinema Verite: (reality TV)

• Funny
• See people react in a strange envroment
• No technology
• To exscape from reality
• Looking into someone elses life
• Relate to that person
• Curiousity

Digital story telling??
Creative non-fiction??

Facebook/twitter

• "good to have a lot of friends"
• have people you do not know or barely know/met- pointless? but you will still add/accept there friend request
• privacy concern
• something that is growing on twitter is becoming "twitter famous"

"The feeling that ‘no one is listening to me’ make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.” - Sherry Turkle -   Connected but not alone,2012, Ted Talk ,02/12 http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html, :10:07
"We have never been so connected- but never been so alone" -Connected but not alone,2012, Ted Talk ,02/12 Sherry Turkle- http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html

Why So Many Followers
Pickup, H. 13/03/2012. i.e: https://twitter.com/madeforpickup
David Blanchard 17/10/2012 i.e: http://marvel.com/games/play/31/create_your_own_superhero
A Classic Text Message Conversation