Representation, INGOs and the Ethics of Seeing

IDSC08H3 Feb. 12, 2013

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Debate outcomes

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Online participation – raise issues in readings and relevant sources

Agenda

How is development “represented” ?By the main stream mediaBy development agenciesBy NGO

Understanding “representation”

Impact of representation and mis-representation

Ethics of “Seeing”

http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/images/?src=4e3c0222/world_newspapers.png

What is “representation”?

How is development “represented”?

By whom, and for whom?

From the National Geographic effect to the “CNN effect” and “Al-Jazeera phenomenon”

Description or action?

Performativity: Development as Representation

From being framed to active framing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzMsPqssOY

Kinds of Representation

Mental

Language

VisualMental

LanguageVisual

“Representation is the way in which MEANING is given to the things depicted” Stuart Hall

ClassAge

GenderEthnicity

ClassAge

GenderEthnicity

ClassAge

GenderEthnicity

Representation as Process

ReceptionWhat influence do these factors have on interpreters?

ReferenceWhat sort of realities are depicted?

ProductionWhat part do these factors play in media production?

Representation is dynamic

It Is highly dependent on historical, social and political contexts

Systems of representation are the means by which ideologies are framed

So who is in control of the systems?

Media Analysis

“Gap of representation”

"true meaning" and what the media depicts

Online Discussion

Provide an image of “development” from an iNGO

Analysis the image in terms of the “gap”

http://www.ted.com/talks/leslie_dodson_don_t_misrepresent_africa.html