Wk 9 – Assessment 3

What it means to be a global citizen in this generation means is that we have a large influential potential to impact the wider society by via the amount of technological advances in telecommunications and the rang of connections across the globe. There are so many more ways to communicate images and ideas with this modern technology, that we can use it to instigate change along with visual culture.

“Visual culture is a way to recreate forms of change”(Mirzoeff. 289)

Visual activism – “Visual activism is the interaction of pixels and actions to make change” (Mirzoeff. 297) Mirzoeff means

Visual thinking -is a way in which one organises their thoughts in order to improve their ability to think and communicate.

An injustice and a concern I have decided upon is the issues of illegal child marriages around the world. According to girlsnotbrides.org – “Every year worldwide, 15 million girls are married before they reach the age of 18. That equates to 28 girls per minute, 1 every 2 seconds.”Girls who should still be in school and under the care of their parents are being married off to much older men and the ones who survive almost always end up in abusive, violent relationships and end terribly.

Why child marriage happens – There are many different reasons to why child marriages still occur today, but some key reasons are the gender inequality, poverty ,traditions, cultural reasons and insecurity. Regardless of these, child marriages are wrong and should not be something that is culturally accepted by societies in these countries.

The direction in which i have decided to take it

 

For my final creative work, I want to explore on how I can make an effective statement with a medium that will effectively capture the audiences attention and give an emotional response. I find the emotive statements and art works do best.

Works Cited

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “Afterword: Visual Activism”. How to See the World. London: Pelican, 2015. 287-298. Print.

Gorney, Cynthia. “Too Young to Wed.” National Geographic 2011: n. pag. Print.

Bicker, Jack. “Too Young to Wed – the Secret Life of Child Brides.” Fairplanet.org. N.p., 8 June 2013. Web.

“About Child Marriages.” Girls Not Brides.org. N.p., n.d. Web.

Wk 4 -Task 3G Glossary

KEY CONCEPTS

The Global Village

Our world as a combined community in which is connected by modern technology  and therefore the restrictions of distance, time and isolation are increasingly reduced.

Mirzoeff mentions this “One of the products of the Cold War closed worlds was, oddly enough, the concept of the global village created by mass media ” where he explains how the effects of the war led to the creation of a singular community linked together by the ever-changing and evolving technology which enabled the wide spread of information and data.

This terminology was first associated with Marshall McLuhan who stated in his book Understanding Media (1964) “Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.”

Closed World

This is a term that suggests how

“Metaphors, technique and fiction were just as important as weapons systems and computers in constructing the hyperbolic belief that every aspect of global life could be monitored and controlled”

 

The Closed World. Paul N. Edwards. Print. 1997

This term that Mirzoeff refers to is defined as the “Closed World Mirzoeff discusses this in chapter 4, “In a village, everybody knows everyone else’s business and so the global village would be the ultimate closed world.” (Mirzoeff. 146).

“Cinemaa used the train as a key metaphor for closed worlds, and made them believable” (Mirzoeff.138)

Screen Based culture

Screen based culture is exactly how it sounds, a culture based all around screen. Screen based culture also is defined by the generation that grew up and lives with the technology of screen, something that hadn’t been available before the creation and production of various forms of screens.

‘”Now what could be seen on screen had clearly transcended the capacities of human vision, putting different spaces into the same frame, over coming the limitations of time and distance”. (Mirzoeff. 146) Mirzoeff discusses the power and significance of screen as it put the restrictions of time and distance behind with the creation of something that could share moving images with an audience to showcase new things.

Works Cited

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “Introduction”. How to See the World. London: Pelican, 2015. 31-69. Print.

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Print. 1964

Edwards, Paul N. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1996. Print.