Today Grace and Maggie led a session on the difference that photographs can make in communicating solidarity. They showed iconic photos from various movements, including this one of the young man who stood against the tanks in Tiannmen Square 25 years ago:
This one, of the climate change march in NYC that had happened just a week earlier and depicts the scope of the people there – especially interesting given the scant media attention:
We discussed how important it can be to take an image that captures a meaningful moment, and how important it can be to pass along such images to those in our social networks.
Here’s the popplet we created as we discussed how we used and took photos: Photographyppl
About Lynn Schofield Clark
I'm an author and media professor who researches and writes about how digital and mobile media are changing the lives of diverse U.S. young people and their families. Regina Marchi and I have recently coauthored Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism for Cambridge University Press (2017). It's about how the definitions of news are changing as young people use social media in their relationships with (and sometimes in advocacy for) their communities of concern (their neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, etc.). My earlier books are Parenting in a Digital Age, published by Oxford University Press in 2013; From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural, published by Oxford University Press in 2005; and Media, Home and Family, co-authored with Diane Alters, Stewart Hoover, Joseph Champ, and Lee Hood, published by Routledge in 2004.
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