BagNewsSalon: The Visual Chemistry of Kony 2012

How do visual campaigns like the Kony 2012 viral video backfire in their success? What made Kony 2012 so visually sticky? How do the images fuel viral compassion so detached from the facts? How do images like the one by Glenna Gordon of the producers touting guns undermine the narrative within?

(photo: Glenna Gordon)

The BagNewsSalon, a program of BagNewsNotes, brings together the world's leading photojournalists, visual academics and other informed observers to understanding how the visual media frames the key social and political events of the day.

Host: Michael Shaw, Publisher, BagNewsNotes

Moderator: Nate Stormer, Professor of Communications and Journalism/U. of Maine

Discussants:

David Campbell, Writer and Producer,
Benjamin Chesterton, Director, duckrabbit
Glenna Gordon, Freelance Photographer
Lina Srivastava, Social Innovation Strategist; Principal at Lina Srivastava Consulting

Loret Steinberg – Professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography/R.I.T.

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