After last week’s ABC Democratic primary debate, the Bag posted a great series of TV frames as a visual recap to the debate. In my earlier post I wrote;
This is by far the most succinct summary of last night’s debacle of a debate TV show hosted produced by ABC News Disney Entertainment. This captures the [...]
Barack Obama may have committed a major political faux pas last week when he spoke out on the attitudes of some prospective working class voters: “It’s not surprising then,” he said, “that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment [...]
Also tagged 2008 Race, Popular Culture, SemioticsRecently, no less than three glossy magazines published photo serials which reenact earlier high points of visual culture:
Vanity Fair published a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s films, recreating classic moments with new actors.
New York Magazine recreated Marilyn Monroe’s photo shoot with Douglas Kirkland for Look Magazine, often referred to as “The Last Sitting”, using Lindsay Lohan [...]
Last month I posted this piece exploring photojournalist representations of Hillary Clinton. Historiann recently commented;
“This is an interesting analysis of the photography of the campaign, and I agree that the photo at the top (Clinton apart from the 3 men) is highly revealing of the dynamics of the race a month ago, before Edwards and [...]
One of my “hobbies” as it where, is studying and reflecting upon political imagery. This image here reminded me of a photo I saw last June on Michael Shaw’s blog, Bag News Notes.
Shaw has a new piece at American Photo, “Campaign Visuals in the Age of Facebook.” In it, he interviews photographer Stephen [...]
MediaCommons reports, “YouTube purges: fair use tested”
Last week there was a wave of takedowns on YouTube of copyright-infringing material — mostly clips from television and movies.Fortunately, since we regard these sorts of media quotations as fair use, we make it a policy to rip backups of every externally hosted clip so that we can remount [...]
Bent’s last post, with this image got me thinking a bit more about political iconography and this image from the NY Times “At Debate, Two Rivals Go After Defiant Clinton.”
This image was taken after Saturday’s New Hampshire Democratic debate. If you’ve totally missed the news, Obama won the Iowa caucus and Edwards defeated Clinton for [...]
Also tagged Photography, Politics, Postmodern Culture, Visual SemioticsI spend a disproportionate amount of time examining the Democratic candidates online presence than that of the Republicans. There is some built-in prejudice but mainly that’s because the Left is so much more adapt with the new technologies. Furthermore, highly new media literate people vote democratic by some 2 to 1. This is a rough [...]
Also tagged Cyber Society, Politics, Postmodern CultureI came across this piece in the NY Times by Katharine Seelye, “Women, Politics and the Internet.”
What really caught my attention was the mention of Momocrats, a progressive community blog of online mothers who are pulling their resources to effect political change.
Momocrats was started last month by a group of mothers who are all noted [...]
from The Nation
Google is far more than the digital incarnation of Madison Avenue in the twenty-first century. It is the engine driving us into a new communications era, in which interactive marketing will significantly shape our lives.
Google’s message to Madison Avenue, as expressed at the OMMA Expo in New York this week is that [...]