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Trackbacking: A handy research tool

Hi All,

The blogs are looking good and I look forward to
seeing them develop over the semester.
Trackbacking is a great tool for collecting research
from other sites, so make the most of it.

I found this interesting piece on Baudrillard on one of
the Transient Spaces blogs.

massrapid
Critical Theorist Jean Baudrillard suggests that photography paradoxically represents an unrealistic, non-objective world in the way the medium, through technique, is capable of resisting movement and silencing noise. Often, there is also an absence of reality in the photographic image, as Baudrillard argues the “eyes” of the lens sits in between the operator and the presence of reality. Additionally, in the advent of new media, the photographer’s accessibility to digital cameras and digital post-processing tools give the photojournalist a plethora of options to construct or skew meaning through his photographs. For this honors year, I hope to study the work of photojournalists and their photographs in selected news prints (for example, The Age). Through the study, to illustrate how messages are constructed through framing and photo manipulation, and hence back Baudrillard’s claim that photographs in journalism (like the written word), make it difficult for the reader to distinguish a real occurrence from the constructed image – resulting in a hyper-realistic representation of a situation.