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Understanding photojournalism’s visual literacy in the age of (dis)misinformation
| dc.contributor.author | Barroso, Paulo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-15T09:34:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-15T09:34:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Visual literacy and photojournalism are closely intertwined and have significant implications for each other. Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, understand, and critically analyse visual information, while photojournalism is a form of journalism that uses photographs to tell news stories. Photojournalism relies heavily on visual literacy. Newspaper readers must be able to understand the visual elements within a photograph, such as composition, lighting, and subject matter, to comprehend the story being conveyed. Visual literacy enhances the viewer’s ability to extract meaning and context of the images presented by photojournalists. Since photojournalists play a role in shaping public perceptions of events and issues, visual literacy empowers audiences to critically assess the authenticity and accuracy of photographs. This is particularly important in an era of digital manipulation and false news. A visually literate audience is more likely to question the credibility of an image and demand ethical practices from photojournalists. Developing critical thinking, people are equipped with the tools to acutely analyse the emotional manipulation that can be inherent in certain photojournalistic images and to recognize potential biases in photojournalists work. This can lead to a more informed response to the issues depicted in the photographs. Questioning the contribution of journalistic visual literacy in the new virtual configuration of the public sphere, people will be better able to discern what is true from what is false in the current era dominated by the phenomenon of false information. As false news is not easy to identify, media literacy is a basic knowledge about the nature of the media and how they work. Following a theoretical and conceptual approach, the importance of visual literacy for the effects of meaning in press photographs and as a practice for promoting media and digital literacy is discussed. The two objectives of this article are: a) to understand visual literacy applied to photojournalism and the fundamentals and challenges of visual communication in the digital age; and b) understand the repercussions of this new dimension of visual communication in the digital age and recognize false news and disinformation in the digital environment as obstacles to the modern public sphere and news media social functions. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/8036 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | UNESCO Chair in Cyberspace and Culture: Dual-spacization of the World | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Digital | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | media | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | (dis)misinformation | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | photojournalism | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | visual literacy | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Understanding photojournalism’s visual literacy in the age of (dis)misinformation | pt_PT |
| dc.type | lecture | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Tehran, Iran | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 48 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 48 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | The Proceeding of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Seminar 2023 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Barroso | |
| person.givenName | Paulo | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 5118-DF80-195D | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-7638-5064 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | lecture | pt_PT |
| relation.isAuthorOfPublication | d201ccb0-30c4-4030-8e57-fc3afd20327e | |
| relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery | d201ccb0-30c4-4030-8e57-fc3afd20327e |
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