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Essay title: "How has technology affected global visual culture?" The world we inhabit is filled with visual images, which are central to the ways we represent, make meaning and communicate in the world around us. In many ways, our culture is an increasingly visual one. Over the course of the last two centuries, Western culture has come to be dominated by visual rather than oral or textual media. For example, television, a visual and sound-based medium, has come to play the central role daily life. As Sturken and Cartwright note: "Hearing and touching are important means of experience and communication, but our values, opinions, and beliefs have increasingly come to be shaped in powerful ways by the many forms of visual culture that we encounter in our day-to-day lives". (Sturken & Cartwright, 2001, p. 1) This paper analyses the influence of technology has to the global visual culture. Starting from...

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