Some selfies are more dangerous than others… ‘Selfie’ via www.shutterstock.com Michael Weigold, University of Florida In May, an Indian man was killed while trying to take a selfie next to a wounded bear. It’s actually the third selfie-related death in...
By Ryan Jopp, Swinburne University of Technology Tourists are drawn to cities by a myriad of attractions and activities. Some cities are blessed with iconic attractions that are on every visitor’s “must see” list – the Opera House and Harbour Bridge in Sydney, for...
Bardal, from Norwegian Sublime, Ellen Marie Saethre-McGuirk, 2018. Ellen Marie Saethre-McGuirk Ellen Marie Saethre-McGuirk, Queensland University of Technology Thanks to the increasing accessibility of technology, many of us will try to capture the grandeur of the...
Rebecca Macmillan, University of Texas at Austin Twenty-four percent of U.S. teens say they’re online “almost constantly.” Now much of that time, it seems, is spent incessantly compiling and navigating vast collections and streams of images. In a 2014 survey, the...
Cleverly doctored images of the effects of Sydney’s April storms amused social media users – but hoax images have a much longer history. Todd Lopez/@Creative_Order Phillip George, UNSW A detail from Giorgio Vasari’s 1563 fresco, The Studio of the Painter – which...
