If the task of promoting media literacy becomes too blue...
...then it might not hurt to go a little green. :)
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The DLSU-Manila Department of Communication and TeamComm present:
Framing the Other: A Media Literacy Forum on Ethics and Photography
06 March 2009
2:30-4:30 pm
Tereso Lara Seminar Room
De La Salle University-Manila
In our increasingly mediated world, photographs play a central role in the way we understand both the near and the distant Other. At times, these images allow us to rediscover our shared humanity, whether in collective triumph (e.g., photo essays of the 1986 EDSA Revolution) or in collective grief (e.g., photojournalistic records of the 9/11 tragedy). At other times, these hinder us from recognizing each other, whether at the level of groups (e.g., spurious depictions of "virgin tribes" from the Amazon) or of individuals (e.g., disturbingly intrusive paparazzi shots of Britney Spears). Indeed, as the media scholar Roger Silverstone has argued, these images reveal as much as they conceal.
In light of the above, this forum, entitled "Framing the Other," brings together (a) scholars and students from DLSU's Department of Communication and (b) renowned professional photographers. In this dialogue, they shall attempt to examine the power of photographs to enable and disable our understanding of our fellow Filipinos and of other peoples.
The seminar will feature:
1. JASON CABANES (Asst. Prof. Lecturer, Comm. Dep't., DLSU), who will present Roger Silverstone's notion of Proper Distance in both producing and consuming media texts.
2. VEEJAY VILLAFRANCA (Freelance photojournalist and Ian Parry 2008 Awardee) and JIMMY DOMINGO (Coordinator, ACFJ Diploma in Photojournalism), who will talk about the how norms of journalism have influenced the way they have dealt with their photographic subjects.
3. MARIA ANGELI DIAZ, PH.D. (Chairperson, Comm. Dep't., DLSU), who will serve as chair of the seminar.
Official webpage: http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/announcements/default.asp?id=570
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The DLSU-Manila Department of Communication and TeamComm present:
Framing the Other: A Media Literacy Forum on Ethics and Photography
06 March 2009
2:30-4:30 pm
Tereso Lara Seminar Room
De La Salle University-Manila
In our increasingly mediated world, photographs play a central role in the way we understand both the near and the distant Other. At times, these images allow us to rediscover our shared humanity, whether in collective triumph (e.g., photo essays of the 1986 EDSA Revolution) or in collective grief (e.g., photojournalistic records of the 9/11 tragedy). At other times, these hinder us from recognizing each other, whether at the level of groups (e.g., spurious depictions of "virgin tribes" from the Amazon) or of individuals (e.g., disturbingly intrusive paparazzi shots of Britney Spears). Indeed, as the media scholar Roger Silverstone has argued, these images reveal as much as they conceal.
In light of the above, this forum, entitled "Framing the Other," brings together (a) scholars and students from DLSU's Department of Communication and (b) renowned professional photographers. In this dialogue, they shall attempt to examine the power of photographs to enable and disable our understanding of our fellow Filipinos and of other peoples.
The seminar will feature:
1. JASON CABANES (Asst. Prof. Lecturer, Comm. Dep't., DLSU), who will present Roger Silverstone's notion of Proper Distance in both producing and consuming media texts.
2. VEEJAY VILLAFRANCA (Freelance photojournalist and Ian Parry 2008 Awardee) and JIMMY DOMINGO (Coordinator, ACFJ Diploma in Photojournalism), who will talk about the how norms of journalism have influenced the way they have dealt with their photographic subjects.
3. MARIA ANGELI DIAZ, PH.D. (Chairperson, Comm. Dep't., DLSU), who will serve as chair of the seminar.
Official webpage: http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/announcements/default.asp?id=570