Before vs. After Here’s my completed assignment! - Written reflection - For this assignment, I wanted to display the physical path of misinformation using a medium that’s becoming less and less common nowadays. I have decided to use a newspaper as my medium and have that circulated between my family members and myself. They could add things that related to the news story or the story I fabricated, changing its meaning entirely. This could mean “censoring” random names or adding the source picture of my face to every photo no matter what it’s about. I hoped to make this as ridiculous as some misinformation can be and display just how fast the meaning can be changed if you twisted the right words. Because a wild lie/misinterpretation is a better story than the honest truth. Will people take a closer look at the story underneath or will the surface level information capture their attention? Hito Steyerl’s “In Defence of the Poor Image” speaks about the distribution and availab...
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