Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Blog 1: Intro


In practices of looking, the introduction is based solely on, what is visual culture? According to Raymond Williams, visual culture is one of the most complex words in the English language (pg. 2). Defining the term in just one sentence would be almost impossible. Culture, in POL, is defined as a set of processes through which individuals and groups come to make sense of things (pg. 3). Visual culture would then be taking visual media (images, television, internet, etc) and making sense of it. It is not only about seeing what is shown, but how things are shown and what we can’t see (pg. 6). I think this will give me a better outlook on how I perceive things in everyday life.

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