Writing Homework Help

I’m working on a communications multi-part question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

Watch the TED Talk : https://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_huey_america_s_native_prisoners_of_war

Answer each of these questions as comprehensively as possible, using the eTextbook as a guide:

1) Visual Culture & Visual Literacy (pgs 7-9) How are photographs like these part of the visual culture, and how do we apply our visual literacy skills to “read” them?

2) The Lasswell Communication Model vs. the concept of Agency (include the Ted Talk format as a method the artist used to share his work as part of this question). (pgs 18-19)

3) Stuart Hall’s Encoding-Decoding Model of Communication: how would Huey’s photographs be given dominant, negotiated, and oppositional reading? (pgs 24, 186-189)

4) Semiotics: what indexical, iconic and symbolic signs are evident in his photographs and how does this affect how the images might be perceived? (pgs 71-79)

5) Visual Persuasion: how do these photographs fit into the idea of “advocating for social justice?” (pgs 136-139)

6) Dominant Culture and Stereotyping: Compare and contrast Huey’s images with those made by Edward Curtis, in terms of their style and in terms of their representation of Native American culture then and now.