Yes, street art is on public display — but that doesn’t mean we should share it without credit
By Mike Dickison, Massey University and Bruce White, Massey University When Wellington mural artist Xoë Hall discovered her work on a calendar, she hadn’t been contacted by anybody, let alone credited or paid for it. This wasn’t the first time. Her art often appears...
Street art: Personal creations get political with public messaging
By Anna Augusto Rodrigues, Trent University I stopped in my tracks, shocked by something I saw in a Montréal laneway window that had been boarded up in the city’s Plateau neighbourhood. I was looking at caged chickens, with no space to move, one with a tear on the...
Identifying a fake picture online is harder than you might think
If you know how photo editing works, you might have a leg up at spotting fakes. Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com Mona Kasra, University of Virginia It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did, these two images...