Wednesday, January 29, 2014

DEFINITIONS: aesthetic journalism


What is aesthetic journalism?

Below are class contributions, in an endeavour to understand/ define what aesthetic journalism is:

1) Allows room for the imagination and for the audience to 'complete' the work; information practice that has been conveyed in an open way; and addresses the means of representation and allowing the medium of representation to reveal itself in an effort to gain trust. These three points must work in tandem.

2) A reaction to contemporary circumstances / Organizing information instead of making new information

3) Has the intention to make change that is real / to have an impact

4) Is a type of activism / intention of informing with a political undertone

5) A way to convey information that is felt and embodied not only rationalized. It must trigger a response that is compassionate

6) Gives the opportunity to read differently

7) It is futile

8) It is a practice used by artists to gain currency

9) It is ambiguous.







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