“The Visual Chemistry of Kony 2012” BagNewsSalon Webinar, TODAY!!!
Written by duckrabbitThe blurb is below for todays BagNewsSalon. I think I’ll probably be coming at this differently than any of the other panelists because I’m not sure I agree with the premise of this webinar, that the Kony film ‘back-fired’. Backlash would be a much better word because I am of the opinion that the Kony film was a massive success for Invisible Children (that doesn’t stop me wanting to vomit when watching it.)
The Salon brings together the eyes and voices of the world’s leading photojournalists, visual academics and political and cultural observers (and duckrabbit) to analyze a current topic in visual politics in a 90 minute on-line webinar.
“The Visual Chemistry of Kony 2012” will look at how visual campaigns backfire in their success. What about Kony 2012 made it sticky visually? How did these images fuel viral compassion that was detached from facts? How do images like the one by Glenna Gordon trouble the narrative from within?
(photo credit: Glenna Gordon)
Here are the details:
Date: Sunday May 20th
Time: 10 am PST/1 pm EST/6pm GMT (running for 90 minutes)
Title: The Visual Chemistry of Kony 2012: When Viral Visuals Backfire
Where: http://bit.ly/BagNewsSalon (We’ll be holding the talk on the Open-i platform, hosted by the London School of Communications, via live audio. Below, you’ll find additional info on how it works.)
Hope you can join us!
Michael
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.