The visuals being used by the White House frame real victims of war as game avatars. And avatars, by definition, are not grievable.
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In an increasingly fierce war for attention, the temptation to shock in order to make an impression exists. But what are the results?
Kaleidoscopic color combinations can catch people’s attention before they even realize it, according to an eye-tracking study of real-world Facebook posts.
Our city streets are covered with posters, signage, art and graffiti. How can these public images support diversity and justice in cities?
Experiment that creates altered states of consciousness sheds light on an old problem.
Scholars explain important moments in the Democratic presidential debate on Dec. 19.
Sometimes photographic images are not able to capture and accurately represent science – especially at very tiny scales. This is where scientific visualisation comes in.
By looking closely at traits like wing feathers and spot patterns, a computer scientist trained an algorithm to recognize individual woodpeckers.
Social media can act as the engine room for public engagement with refugees, allowing people to move beyond ‘I should do something’ to ‘I will take action’.
According to a photojournalism expert, there can be a relationship between exposure to grisly images and activism. But there are also ethical considerations to be made.
Pokemon Go brought augmented reality to people’s attention, but dual camera smartphones will make it much more useful for the future.
One thing bursts out of another. Christine Brooke-Rose, in A Grammar of Metaphor (1958), called it the genitive link. When Ballarat regional poet Nathan Curnow begins his poem The Lighthouse with, nuns…
How to make a killing from famous faces.
Why do certain songs and colors make us feel a certain way?
Faking photographs is not a new phenomenon. The Cottingley Fairies seemed convincing to some in 1917, just as the images recently broadcast on Russian television, purporting to be satellite images showing…
School-age teenagers are developing their own strategies to deal with exposure to sexualised and raunchy imagery, a new study…
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