Visual Literacy

Visual literacy is a pretty interesting topic among internet users. With programs such as photoshop, and video editing software, it is easy to take anything from the internet and alter it to what you want it to present. The internet has no way of assuring that everything that is shown is true, so the people who want to sit there and mess with peoples head can openly and anonymously present new false information with these programs. People can photoshop images of the president and put him next to Osama Bin Laden and make them seem like they were best of friends when they were teens. These programs abilities are limitless with what they can do IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. This can be a huge problem because as the internet continues to become the best way of communication around the world, how do we know huge "reliable" companies such as CNN won't start using these programs to their advantage? I mean, if you pay attention, you know these companies like to stir the pot up way more than they should, so CNN using photoshop could present problems in the future with them doing things such as ruining Republican candidates image, as well as other companies taking advantage of this to make what they believe is the right thing, look like the right thing.

Ethic/Rhetoric of controversial altered images

Google Image Search "Photoshop Controversy"