Image: tpmartins (flickr.com - cc)

identify access evaluate apply ethics
Images: andercismo; ElStruthio; gonzales2010; IceSabre; marttj (flickr.com - cc)

nothing .

information = te xt

“...information is available through
multiple media, including graphical,
aural, and textual, and these pose
new challenges for individuals in
evaluating and understanding it.”
~ ACRL
Reference: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm

Image: mightymightymatze (flickr.com - cc)

Image: (c) Andrew Goodwin

information > te xt
Images: Incendiarymind; ckaroll; N.J. Lee; (c)athrine; Steve Rhodes; margolove; prallin; paulbence_photography (flickr.com - cc)

creating
consuming
Image: Melissa Maples (flickr.com - cc)

Images

Images tell stories.

Image: found_drama (flickr.com - cc)

Image: foxypar4 (flickr.com - cc)

Image: simplerich (flickr.com - cc)

Image: neb (flickr.com - cc)

Image dotbenjamin (flickr.com - cc)

see / speak
watch / write
visual / verbal
Image: sean_dreilinger (flickr.com - cc)

Images *are* the story.
Image: (c) M.J. D’Elia

1) Images tell stories.
2) Stories help us understand.

1) Includes a lot of images.
2) Uses a classic story structure.

Image

Image Image Image Image
Image Image Image Image
Image Image Image Image
Image Image Image Image

climax
Story Arc
(aka Freytag’s pyramid)
falling
action
rising
action dénouement
resolution
exposition
inciting incident
Reference: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~hartleyg/250/freytag.html

Exposition
“A picture is worth a thousand words”

why image s ?

documentation
identification
elaboration
emotion
direction
acculturation
decoration
communication

show & te ll

1,000 1,000
words words

inte rpre tation.

Image: (c) M.J. D’Elia

Press button Grab bacon Eat bacon

Image: Thomas Hawk (flickr.com - cc)

Image: Ed Yourdon (flickr.com - cc)

Inciting Incide nt
“Picture perfect”

cave paintings
illuminated manuscripts
Renaissance portraits
printed lithographs

profession of a few
practice of the masses

?

Image: Shermeee (flickr.com - cc)

Rising Action
“Seeing is believing”

Images: pineapplebun; John Fravel (flickr.com - cc)

Image: Anirudh-Koul (flickr.com - cc)

production.
distribution.

Orality T xtuality
e Visuality
rhetoric logic ?
memorization authority ?
fluid frozen fluid
subjectivity “objectivity” subjectivity

se e ing is be lie ving .

T xtuality
e
logic
authority
frozen
“objectivity”

Climax
“The moment that never was”

1) Images tell stories.
2) Stories help us understand.

Basra, Iraq
March 2003
Brian Walski
Staff photographer: LA Times

Photograph ran prominently in:
LA Times
Hartford Courant
Chicago Tribune

This moment
never happened.

150 image s 150 image s
British troops Iraqi civilians

ze ro .

manipulation = bad manipulation = good

Fire d.

“After a long day, I put my altered
image ahead of the integrity of the
newspaper and the integrity of my craft.
These other photographers are there
[in Iraq] risking their lives and I’ve
just tarnished their reputation.”
~Brian Walski

images can be easily altered
manipulation can change meaning
images aren’t “objective”
credibility and integrity of image-maker
fine line of manipulation
demand for dramatic images

digital information.

Image: orphanjones (flickr.com - cc)

Image: Holger Zscheyge (flickr.com - cc)

“There were clear cut and dried areas
[of photography]. And now, we no longer
have this metal formed by light, we have
liquid pixels, we have controlled liquid
photos...This is the major revolution.”
~Sheila Reaves

liquidity.
anonymity.

Lonelygirl15
(Bree)
Images: (c) Peter Yang (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/lonelygirl.html)

Bree does Lonelygirl15
not exist. is fiction.
Images: (c) Peter Yang (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/lonelygirl.html)

pe ople didn’ t care .

true e nough.

Falling Action
“If you can imagine it, you can image it”

what should we do ?

Remember:
1) things are not always as they appear
2) content and context
3) visual culture is in its infancy

Remember:
1) things are not always as they appear
2) content and context
3) visual culture is in its infancy

Remember:
1) things are not always as they appear
2) content and context
3) visual culture is in its infancy

Remember:
1) things are not always as they appear
2) content and context
3) visual culture is in its infancy

Book “innovations” Image innovations
?
quotation marks
table of contents
index (cross-referencing)
page numbers
footnotes
citations

Re solution
“Learning a new language”

Media literacy mass media
Digital literacy information technology
Screen literacy display technology
Visual literacy visual stimuli

Media literacy
Digital literacy
Information
Screen literacy
Visual literacy L racy
ite

identify access evaluate apply ethics
Images: jsleepr; Dplanet::; incurable_hippie; Divine Harvester (tm); Francois @ Edito.gc.ca (flickr.com - cc)

Dé noue me nt/ Discussion
“Where do we go from here?”

librarians .

Image: (c) M.J. D’Elia

Thank you.
mjdelia.wordpress.
M.J. D’Elia
ca
mdelia@uoguelph.ca
twitter.com/mjdelia

Image List
Images in this presentation are used under
Creative Commons licenses (unless otherwise noted).
Most images can be found on www.flickr.com under the user names below:
tpmartins margolove Shermeee
andercismo prallin pineapplebun
ElStruthio paulbence_photography John Fravel
gonzales2010 Melissa Maples Anirudh-Koul
IceSabre found_drama Brian Walski x 3 (c)
marttj foxypar4 orphanjones
mightymightymatze simplerich Holger Zscheyge
Andrew Goodwin (c) nep Peter Young x 2 (c)
Incendiarymind dotbenjamin jsleepr
ckaroll sean_dreilinger Dplanet::
N.J. Lee M.J. D’Elia x 4 (c) incurable_hippie
(c)athrine Thomas Hawk Divine Harvester (tm)
Steve Rhodes Ed Yourdon Francois @ Edito.gc.ca
M.J. D’Elia (c)

Se le cte d Re fe re nce s
Screen Literacy
Kelly, K. (2008, Nov 28). Becoming Screen Literate. Ne w Y ork Time s Mag az ine .
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23wwln-future-t.html
Visual Literacy
Bleed, R. (2005, Aug). Visual Literacy in Higher Education. Educaus e Le arning Initiativ e .
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI4001.pdf
Image Manipulation
Brower, K. (1998, May). Photography in the Age of Falsification. Atlantic Monthly .
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/photo.htm
The Case of Brian Walski
Irby, K. (2003). L.A. Times Photographer fired over altered image. Poy nte rOnline .
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=28082
The Case of Lonelygirl15
Davis, J. (2006, Dec). The Secret World of Lonelygirl. W ire d, 14(12).
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/lonelygirl.html