How visual images function in connection with social computing platforms:
- to commemorate occasions and prove that someone is authorized to bear witness
- to invite critical scrutiny and question the presumed narrative of an image
- to provide a digital file that can be altered by another user in the interest of editorial commentary
Discussion point: Is using altered images in a news publication permissable? How can this alteration be signaled? (One possible solution?)
A guest class about other political uses of Photoshop