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Steven J. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
State University of New York, College at Oneonta
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From: Teaching Breakfast List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pence, Harry ([log in to unmask])
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on Article?
I think that beginning with the popularity of PowerPoint and becoming ever more important with the popularity of the iPad, the idea of image literacy has become almost as importannt as text litereacy. Contrrary to what this author seems to imply, increasing emphasis on images is not the end of civiliaation, but rather is just a new way to communicate. Really, it isn't new, it is just that it went out of style in intellectual circles about the time of the Enlightenment. Popular cuture still dpends heavily upon images. Compare movies with books; w2hich is more widely recognized as a method of communication? We are acustomed to dealing with text, and so have developed some very effecitve ways to evaluate the written word. images can be just as compelling, but we in higher education have historically tried to ignore them since most of us, aside from artists, don't have either a facility for creating images or a need to interpret them. That is changing, big time, and some of us are becoming very uncomfortable.
My feeling is, Suck it up and get on with the job.
Harry
Harry E. Pence
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
SUNY Oneonta
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From: Teaching Breakfast List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mi, Hanfu ([log in to unmask])
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:05 PM
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This article is fascinating and thought-provoking. It raises many questions about what constitutes intelligence and civilization, including a university education. Could the fantastic, which is not necessarily exhibited only via technology and the “electronic hallucinations,” exists side by side with the mundane, which can be presented through both a linear “print-based culture” as well as a hyperlinked “image-based culture?” The author would certainly say no to this question because, according to him, “the images do not require them to be understood. Communication in the image-based culture is not about knowledge” but about entertainment or, even, about controlling and being controlled.
Hanfu Mi
From: Teaching Breakfast List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Greenberg, James ([log in to unmask])
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:08 AM
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I’m considering having a discussion about this article (see below) in my New Media class. If you have a few extra minutes to read it, I’d be interested in your take on it so I can frame a meaningful discussion. Thanks.
http://www.alternet.org/media/148449/our_country_is_lost_believing_in_what_it_sees_on_screens,_and_we_are_going_to_pay_a_nasty_price_for_it/
Hedges is a fellow of The Nation Institute. He spent two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, with fifteen years at the New York Times. He has written a number of books including Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.
Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
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