The reading was interesting for a multitude of reasons, yes it pointed out what Visual Literacy is and how the world is changing towards a more visual world, but what I think is most intriguing is recognizing when it was written. he article which points out a how the world is becoming more visual was written in 2009, about 15 years ago, and to compare what the authors were saying to how the world operates now is fascinating. The first page of the article talks about how a mass influx of images has a negative response on people and it can almost dull down the importance and impact that the image can have. For me personally I feel like I have become numb to a lot of images and visuals.
The article also notes that “Living in an image rich world…does not mean students (or faculty and administrators) naturally possess sophisticated visual literacy skills, just as continually listening to an iPod does not teach a person to critically analyze or create music" which I think is another great point. The author notes that when the power of images really started to take control in our world people might enhance their visual literacy skills and this quote sums up best how not entirely true that is. Just because people are looking at more images, more AI, and more videos, does NOT mean that they will start to have a greater overall understanding of how those images were produced. Instead, the influx of pictures is only another way to relay media and information from one person to the next.
This article which was written in 2009 has a comment from someone that was said in 2007 that the world was moving very quickly from print to digital, and less than 20 years later the person that said that is very correct! I don't even carry a pencil in my bag with me anymore, everything is online. While the world is moving online and the pictures we see do not only live on pieces of paper but mainly on digital screens as well, the pictures are easier to be seen more often. They are easier to share, to make, and to edit. Another person in the article points out that "What we select and look at in this field of vision is what for the individual becomes reality."
(a very quickly, self-generated AI photo, the world becoming digitized)
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