On the Media
Ruin Porn
Are photojournalists obsessed with "ruin porn"? Reporter Thomas Morton recently visited Detroit, where photographers have been flocking to take pictures of the city's decrepit factories and abandoned buildings. But Morton says these photos, which he calls ruin porn, paint a misleading picture of the city.
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Time in Detroit
Time Magazine and other outlets, including CNN Money, Fortune and Sports Illustrated, have launched Assignment Detroit. They've purchased a house where reporters will live for a year as they cover the city. Steven Gray, the writer behind The Detroit Blog and journalist and Detroit native Dan Okrent describe the project and how it will document the struggles of this once great American city.
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[How do we develop] ways of perceiving therelationships between and among people, our pasts, our pasts’ legacies, our present lives and struggles, our environments, disciplines, and texts. (24)--Johnnella E. Butler, “Reflections on Borderlands and the Color Line.” (2000) "All the languages of heteroglossia ... are specific points of view on the world, forms for conceptualizing the worldinwords, specific worldviews, each characterized by its own objects, meanings, and values.--Bakhtin
Monday, February 08, 2010
On the Media: Ruin Porn; Time in Detroit
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Detroit,
Environment,
Journalism,
Media,
Michigan,
Photography,
Place,
Visual Culture
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