Visual
Jasmine Smith
Ms. Cooper
Intro to Research Writing
3/8/15
The image chosen is a viral picture that had been circulated around the internet so much that the original creator could not be credited. In the picture there is a man who is walking on the side walk. Next to him is a shadow figure turning his head away from a homeless man lying on the ground. In black lettering the picture reads “you” and has an arrow pointed to the visible man walking, and “media” pointing to the shadow that is turning the man’s head. The intended audience is anybody that would be heavily informed by the media, rather it be social media, the news, or radio. The author is trying to convey a message that wakes the audience up and tells them stop letting the media distract them from the bigger problems in their society.
In today’s society everybody is buried into their technology. People rely on their phones, computer, and radio to keep them entertained and informed. Society represented by the man walking along the sidewalk naïve to all the problems at home. This man is every American citizen that chooses to trust that everything that they hear and see from a box is true or way more interesting than the problems that they have going on in their own community. The man is plainly dress to tell the audience that this is your everyday person that choses to let the media control what they pay attention to.
The media, symbolized by the shadow behind the man, is controlling the mind of the consumers. The obvious main focus of this picture is the shadow representing the media because people do not realize how big of a factor that the media plays on their everyday ersoective on life. The media sets the standards of how we should live, what we should be afraid of, and what we should accept as normal. Since the shadow is black and without identity it represents everything that would turn the Americans away from an issue. This shadow is a representation of every story, viral video, or picture that has
Ms. Cooper
Intro to Research Writing
3/8/15
The image chosen is a viral picture that had been circulated around the internet so much that the original creator could not be credited. In the picture there is a man who is walking on the side walk. Next to him is a shadow figure turning his head away from a homeless man lying on the ground. In black lettering the picture reads “you” and has an arrow pointed to the visible man walking, and “media” pointing to the shadow that is turning the man’s head. The intended audience is anybody that would be heavily informed by the media, rather it be social media, the news, or radio. The author is trying to convey a message that wakes the audience up and tells them stop letting the media distract them from the bigger problems in their society.
In today’s society everybody is buried into their technology. People rely on their phones, computer, and radio to keep them entertained and informed. Society represented by the man walking along the sidewalk naïve to all the problems at home. This man is every American citizen that chooses to trust that everything that they hear and see from a box is true or way more interesting than the problems that they have going on in their own community. The man is plainly dress to tell the audience that this is your everyday person that choses to let the media control what they pay attention to.
The media, symbolized by the shadow behind the man, is controlling the mind of the consumers. The obvious main focus of this picture is the shadow representing the media because people do not realize how big of a factor that the media plays on their everyday ersoective on life. The media sets the standards of how we should live, what we should be afraid of, and what we should accept as normal. Since the shadow is black and without identity it represents everything that would turn the Americans away from an issue. This shadow is a representation of every story, viral video, or picture that has
Cited: Pinkney, Danae. Unknown. Photograph. Webshots. Visual Analysis. 14 Feburary 2014. Web. 9 March 2015