Thursday, December 11, 2008

Manipulation




"The media is manipulated in all manners, for example through professional public relations (PR), and covert and overt government propaganda which disseminates propaganda as news. What are often deemed as credible news sources can often knowingly or unknowingly be pushing political agendas and propaganda."

Media Manipulation, Anup Shah, April, 2006

How forces affect media and corporate broadcasts and how the media manipulates itself to push one agenda over another is paramount to my work. My goals in the series are to illustrate the way data can be paired with images and distorted to change the appearance of that data as a whole. I believe the world would be a different place, with a more informed public, if unbiased news of the facts were presented vs the material distributed today.

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