Mini Survey
This is a survey for my Social Sciences 300 class. In class, we have discussed the value of confession and how it relates to the idea of the audience on the Internet. In order for something to be perceived as truly confessional thus attaining its value as an object of interest, it needs to have some type of signifier telling the audience that it is in fact real, and/or authentic. It is this signifier I am interested in, not just in terms of how it works as a qualitative navigational tool for youtube-users, but also how it affects a visual piece of information in terms of what values we put into it as viewers. That what lies beneath and cannot be seen except in the mind of each spectator due to individual experiences is what I want to explore. What signifiers do we use to perceive something as more authentic and more interesting? Is there a universal trigger for these responses? Is that trigger situated in the blur of the undefined? When is a work with low visual or aural fidelity more enticing than if it would be executed in high fidelity? And when is low fidelity considered more reliable as a piece if information that its high fidelity counterpart? Design historian Philip B. Meggs wrote about Analytical Cubism that “fascination grows from the unresolved conflict of the sensual and intellectual appeal of the pictorial structure in conflict with the challenge of interpreting the subject matter”
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