http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:26:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/1000-words/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/1000-words/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:49:00 +0000 Candace Nolan-Grant http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/1000-words/ This image, which made the internet rounds recently accompanied by an entirely fictional story, is nonetheless a digitally cultural reminder that we interpret images as well as words. Symbols and signs are embedded in images just as they are in language, and the misconception that a picture is somehow more transparent than language–while this could be true in many contexts–is misleading if applied universally.

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