I’ve been thinking about how images can be described as taciturn. I wonder if this is a trait in contemporary photography or something to do with the limits of photography itself. Further to recent thoughts about how symbols help or at times over-help to distance us from our emotions I thought the following was a relevant possibility worth looking into.
“Beliefs that are communicated by voice make the communicator seem more reasonable, even human, according to Schroeder, an assistant professor at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. But those same beliefs are stripped of the humanizing elements when the opinions are communicated on a piece of paper.”
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“Schroeder thinks her research can help explain — and maybe alleviate — the rise in polarizing political opinions.
“In some ways, technology is making more of our interactions text-based,” Schroeder said. “Many people receive the majority of their news from social media now. This can be dehumanizing, and may increase polarization. It’s easy to imagine how this could become cyclical; dehumanization leading to more polarization leading to more dehumanization.”” (Nutt, 2017)