I chose this picture because I find it funny that such an established institution would lie to make people believe they are diverse. I mean its a college with an enrollment of about 30 thousand students, so obviously they are going to be diverse. This photo originated at a Wisconsin football game which was taken in 1994 and used for a poster in 2000. I guess as the years go by we don't get smarter, we possibly might be just getting dumber. I mean if we think that by adding a person of African American decent into a picture shows our campus is more "diverse," than maybe we are not as smart as we claim to be. So the manipulation in the picture is the adding a black student, seen smiling at the game, and it was manipulated to show campus diversity. I believe this manipulation was not harmful for the reason that I do believe Wisconsin has students of all race. After all if you had not know that this student was just cropped in, one might not even recognize him.
2 comments:
Yea I agree with you that the manipulation was not harmful. The picture might had just been taken in a certain section where there were no people of color sitting there. But it is funny that a reputable university would even paste some random guy's head in the crowd to show diversity.
Yes I agree too, I do not think it is a harmful manipulation, actually it works pretty good to attract attention!
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