Visual and Communication

Week 12 : Photojournalism

In this week, I wish to write and analyze about photojournalism ethic. The word photojournalism is combination between photography and journalism. Photography and photojournalism has a different meaning. According to Johnson B.M., Mayer R.E. and Schmidt.F(2004), Photojournalists are the observers of people and events who report what is happening in photographs; skilled communicators whose images are transmitted visually via the printed page.(P.93).

Merrill and coauthor Ralph D. Barney noted that "journalisthic ethics ...should set forth guidelines, rules, norms, codes or at least broad principles or maxims that will lead, not force, the journalist to be more humane and not necessarily more human".

As stated by Belsey A & Chadwick R, on a book titled Ethical Issues In Journalism And The Media has said that 'Journalism is an honourable profession, though many of those who should care for it, often including its own professionals, have dishonoured it."(P.1). As a photojournalist, take a good images with issue has become a matter of political controvesy and public concern.



This image has manipulate, for Bush campaign for president election. Image has presuade people how Bush has powerful on political campaign and hegemoney.

The advantages of photography lies in its denotation and its connotation. The denotative side of the argument helps bring the notion of realism in the photojournalism as it “helps to convey the world”. Denotation proves that the photographer was there to witness a particular event or moment, ‘denotative power helps journalists to do their job as journalists”(Zelizer, B, 2005,p.172).

To conclude, images has powerful meaning and can make people believe what they seeing. As photojournalism need to know the ethic as a guide. Photojournalism is a profession that took real photo and not edited images.

References;

~ Belsey A & Chadwick R,(1992), Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media, London,Routledge

Week 11 : Informational Graphics

In the modern era, informational graphic(infographic) are very useful to visualize and explain an illustration meaning. According to Lennartz s(2001), Creating an effective infographic requires both artistic sense and a clear vision of what to tell the audience. The following are some cool infographics we have collected. Some are colorful, some are simple, but all are informative and visually pleasing. Not only do they provide information in a format that is easy to understand, but they are also artistic creations in their own right.

I wish to argue that newspapers and magazines can presuade readers attention using infographic. Infographic are more effective to accumulate information data and easy for readers to interpret the statistics. Below are two examples of infographic.



Images alone never fully describe a complex process, so words must always be a part of infographic design.(Lester,1990). Two examples of above infographic, look creative and informative that attract attention of the readers. The infographic above simple and effective. Readers can predict through the trend of the graphs.

In conclusion, infographic are very useful in reality life and effective. Infographic has a clear and has specific title that make readers easily to understood.


References.

~Lester, P.M. (1995). Visual communication: Images with messages. USA: Wadsworth Publishing.