In this remix I used people’s imaginations (and MS Paint) to illustrate headlines taken from the North Shore News without any context from the article the headline was announcing. I would read the headline aloud to people (including one child) and ask for their literal translation; without knowledge of the attached story, the responses were pretty amusing.
As you can see, they sort of turned into visual puns, if such a thing exists.
While this project is pretty silly, I do think the idea of context, or lack of it, is important to consider when analyzing modern and digitilized media. In the age of franken-bites and streaming updates, information can be misconstrued through basic human error, or even manipulated for more sinister purposes, such as gaining profit and garnering public support. While exaggerated in this remix project, the truth still remains that basing conclusions, opinions and beliefs on soundbites is like only reading the headlines and ignoring the articles.
We may be swiftly informed in the digital age, but are we well informed?
Jordan Harbord
http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/story.html?id=c1cbd626-f05b-435d-adc8-b74c560063d6
http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/story.html?id=3b5d1a3f-ac0c-4e6d-9d30-8c740c705219
http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/story.html?id=83c9c1bb-d5eb-43a1-94d1-e1bf3baf8f00
http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/sports/story.html?id=ec36907d-28f1-4784-aa62-f02b581c1f4b
