Visual Arguements
For this week, the main topic I am focusing on is on visuals. Not just pictures, but also word fonts, and the shapes within pictures. Pictures help with convincing us if something is work checking out. The shapes, outline also can help us relate with the actual picture or not. This would include circles, or triangles that form points that catch our attention. Colors also play a role, as certain colors can trigger certain moods that can be either positive or negative. If there is a person in the picture, the point-of-view can also have an affect. If either first person, or third person, could also invoke certain feelings depending on what else is in the picture. Another thing to consider in pictures is how all of the parts in it are organized. Are they grouped together with similar shapes, or colors, or is it not organized at all and is instead mixed all together and looks disorganized. The more organized a picture or photo is, it can make us look at the picture longer than if it is all over the place. Pictures really do tell a thousand words, and possibly more as it can catch your attention and make you have certain feelings. These feelings can then obligate you to see if there is anything else from whoever posted it. This weeks readings remind me of the first readings assigned from the first week of class. As first impressions really do matter if you want publicity. Getting someones attention is very important. Keeping someones attention after the first point is not very easy however. Although it is important to write good, getting others to read it is just as important. It could be from making a meme that is relevant to what is going on Twitter, or saying something very controversial so it forces others to comment on it to be either positive or negative. If you want publicity, having it be good or bad is not important if you want to be popular online. The most popular uses for visual arguments, are used for politics. Artists would draw pictures with normal situations, then mark the pictures with words to describe what is happening during the times they were released. For example, the picture shown below is a cartoon of two boys, one who has a dog ripping up paper. The other is a boy with a robotic dog that is labeled ChatGPT. The one boy says his dog at his dog ate his homework, while the other states the dog wrote his homework. This is because of the rise of Artificial Intelligence, some students would rely on it to do their academic studies for them. There is also several stories that show students getting caught writing essays with the popular bot ChatGPT. From this picture, the use of the simple cartoons lures us to what it could mean. With the popularity of ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in general, it is easy to follow. The simple words and the label from the robot dog gives this picture a deeper meaning than what is presented. Visual Arguments are simple to observe, but require thinking in order to understand them better.
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