Quote: "A scopic regime also involves a particular relationship between image and word, and this image-word relationship in identification is crucial to the constitution (and the influence) of Catherine’s image event. Ways of seeing and ways of speaking are reciprocal."
Question: When word is paired with an image, does the coinciding image give that word an element of tangible/visible truth? Or can images also be deceitful? Can images be used to persuade an audience in the same ways spoken word can?
Yes the word can give a simple truth to the image but just as images lie socan words decpicting image. I think images can be used to persuade an audience. People love being able to see something and it can be consider concrete evidence. People tend to react more to photos than words but they react well with text and image together. Text and image being paired together can create a very powerful tool that can be very pursasive can be used to be truthful or deciteful.
ReplyDeleteYes, I believe images can definitely give a word an element of tangible truth. When you hear something or read it, you imagine it to some extent and thus believe what it says. But when you see it, a depiction, it's like you have proof. It's like that maxim "seeing is believing". There's also more chances that we remember images more than words. So yes, I believe images are as powerful or even more than words and can be used to persuade an audience just like words can.
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