Power of an Image

Power of an Image

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 6, Episode 167 , Segment 2

Logic To Persuade Others, Power of an Image, US Forests

Episode: Logic To Persuade Others, Power of an Image, US Forests

  • Jul 15, 2017 4:00 pm
  • 45:58 mins

Nicole Dahmen, Ph.D.,  an associate professor of journalism at the University of Oregon. They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  But does a picture have the power to change the world?  Pictures have been the main staple in media and the most memorable ones are easy to recall: the crying napalm girl, the falling man jumping off the World Trade Center, and most recently the young Syrian refugee who washed up on the shores of Turkey. How much power do these images actually wield?  Nicole Dahmen talks about the power of an image.