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KEY QUOTE
"Any media that employ digitally doctored photographs will have a stronger
effect than merely influencing our opinion -- by tampering with our
malleable memory, they may ultimately change the way we recall history,"
University of Padua researcher Dario Sacchi-- upon
release of a study on how people's recollection of historical events
is affected by digitally altered news images.
Note to educators: "Is Seeing Believing" is the title of a curriculum I
discovered at the
Newseum, a museum of news in Washington DC.
It deals with the manipulation of photographic images in news,
history,
and culture. I became fascinated by this topic, so I devoted this web
site to it.
Throughout history the photograph has been manipulated for various
purposes.
It is important for students to understand those purposes and to learn
how to
question images they find in media and on the Internet.
Here you will find a number of contemporary examples of the "digital
manipulation of images" as well as links to articles about the ethics
and the
issue.
A good starting point for students might be the handout "Key
Questions," which
helps them use critical thinking skills as they analyze the images.
Let me know what you think of this resource.
fbaker1346@aol.com
NOTE: Special thanks to Theresa Redmond, Visual Arts educator, at Peoples
Academy Middle Level in Morrisville Vermont for sending me her
Webquest and
Powerpoint on this topic.
 Current recommended articles/resources:
Photo
Touch-Ups the New Reality
Detecting
Digital Photo Fakery
What's Real? Learning to Tell Truth From
Fiction in The Photoshop Age
(PC World, Aug 2008)
Digital
Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images/
Five
Ways to Spot A Fake Photo /
Photo Tampering Throughout History (Scientific American)
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