COLL-C 103 1nd Edition Lecture 4 Outline of Last Lecture I. The Anthropology of MediaII. Media Productiona. Founding Figuresb. Frankfurt School TheoristsIII. Media isIV. Technology and Trutha. ResearchOutline of Current Lecture I. Photographsa. Fundamentalsb. Ambiguity & Discontinuity II. Research Statement Current LectureI. Photographsa. Fundamentalsi. Context, captures a moment in timeii. Limitations= You don’t get to experience the culture of what is being photographediii. Berger, no, they are ahistorical: They capture a moment in time, discontinuity between that moment and the presentiv. Early photos were marvels and presented how things looked. They froze that moment in time and captured something that would in time, no longer be there. You could carry it with you, the material artifact of that which no longer existedThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.b. Ambiguity & Discontinuity i. The ambiguity of the photograph does not come from the nature of the eventii. It is captured by the cameraiii. Discontinuity between moment and image was recorded and moment of lookingiv. So then, when looking at images, where does the meaning come from?1. If you find it meaningful, you are adding some type of attachment or it connects directly with your life2. Meaning doesn’t come from the image, it comes from the context in which the image circulates II. Research Statement a. To what questions is my research going to be an answer tob. How will you go about generating data to answer the question?c. Pick something that interests
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