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Representation, INGOs and the Ethics of Seeing
IDSC08H3 Feb. 12, 2013
House keepingSelf-intro video
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Film Critique (due Feb. 26)Please read instructions carefully!!
Sample from past submissions
Major ProjectPlanning, discussion, annotated bibliography
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Debate outcomes
Next debate
Online participation – raise issues in readings and relevant sources
Agenda
How is development “represented” ?By the main stream mediaBy development agenciesBy NGO
Understanding “representation”
Impact of representation and mis-representation
Ethics of “Seeing”
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/images/?src=4e3c0222/world_newspapers.png
What is “representation”?
How is development “represented”?
By whom, and for whom?
From the National Geographic effect to the “CNN effect” and “Al-Jazeera phenomenon”
Description or action?
Performativity: Development as Representation
From being framed to active framing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzMsPqssOY
Kinds of Representation
Mental
Language
VisualMental
LanguageVisual
“Representation is the way in which MEANING is given to the things depicted” Stuart Hall
ClassAge
GenderEthnicity
ClassAge
GenderEthnicity
ClassAge
GenderEthnicity
Representation as Process
ReceptionWhat influence do these factors have on interpreters?
ReferenceWhat sort of realities are depicted?
ProductionWhat part do these factors play in media production?
Representation is dynamic
It Is highly dependent on historical, social and political contexts
Systems of representation are the means by which ideologies are framed
So who is in control of the systems?
Media Analysis
“Gap of representation”
"true meaning" and what the media depicts
Online Discussion
Provide an image of “development” from an iNGO
Analysis the image in terms of the “gap”
http://www.ted.com/talks/leslie_dodson_don_t_misrepresent_africa.html