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Monday Apr 22, 2013
The Age of the Image
Monday Apr 22, 2013
Monday Apr 22, 2013
Every hour, 72 more hours of video are uploaded onto Youtube. The moving image has become the literature of our time. Perhaps not since the development of moveable type has the context of our world and our understanding of it, changed so dramatically.
But what do we really know and understand about the “grammar” and the structure of visual communication? How are stories and our appreciation of them, different when we watch them, as opposed to reading them?
How will this new realm of visual literacy shape our children and how they see and set out to change the world?
These are some of the issues examined by Stephen Apkon, the Founder and Executive Director of The Jacob Burns Film Center, in his book The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens;
My conversation with Stephen Apkon:
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