How much power can an image actually wield?
- Written by Nicole Smith Dahmen, Assistant Professor of Visual Communication, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
Conventional wisdom maintains that images hold “power” to sway public opinion, to move us to action and to ultimately “change history.”
In early April, gut-wrenching images seem to have once again awakened the world to the human atrocities happening in Syria. Following a chemical bomb attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, gra...