1 page., "The well-known images of urban and rural poverty published during the Great Depression only represented a fragment of the type of photography funded by the American government. The Tennessee Valley Authority, the Works Progress Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration not only needed photographers for recording purposes, but to fashion images of hope and progress."
19 pages., via online journal., This article provides a visual analysis of a set of peopleless photographs taken in 2006 of a falling home erosion in the village of Shishmaref, Alaska, that have been widely circulated in reporting about the relocation of the village due to climate change. It asks whether the visual contract between spectator and absent climate change victim extends beyond an empathetic response to action toward restoring the lost home. The article explores the relationship of contemporary scholarship on postmodern ruination in U.S. Rust Belt cities and the Shishmaref fallen home photograph as a means to analyze the work done by rural ruination.
Brosius, Hans-Bernd (author), Mundorf, Norbert (author), Staab, Joachim F. (author), and Brosius and Staab: Institut fur Publizistik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universtat Mainz, Germany; Mundorf: Department of Speech Communication, University of Rhode Island
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06470
James F. Evans Collection, This study provides a quantitative content analysis of the depictions of sex roles in the American news magazine Time and the West German news magazine Stern from 1969 to 1988. The underlying assumption of the study is that advertisements reflect changes in social reality. While most studies focus on explicit aspects of gender role depictions such as jobs, activities, interactions and situations, this content analysis also covers implicit aspects of role depictions such as posture, gestures, and facial expression. Some authors have claimed that these are powerful means of transmitting traditional sex role stereotypes of women as being submissive and of men being dominant. Results indicate that while there have been considerable changes in the explicit presentation of male and female roles, the implicit presentation remained quite consistent over the 20-year period. According to these findings, sex roles may have changed primarily on the surface, while nonverbal sex role stereotypes still linger on. Differences between the developments in Germany and the US are outlined. (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35783
Notes:
"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages., Author suggests that "opportunities for documenting and presenting memorable images of American agriculture are greater now than ever before."
Solomon, Norman (author) and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), New York, New York.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2000-03-23
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25048
Notes:
Retrieved December 7, 2006, Media Beat. 2 pages., Author challenges photojournalists to provide greater economic and social context for photos, such as those featuring the rural poor.
