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Chris Zomer

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Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this study McKnight, Shipp, @leonfurze.com & @chriszomer.bsky.social find that stock photography’s process of ‘turning humans into vaguely human-shaped ideas’ needs to be negotiated carefully as a vital component of digital writing. Read more: tinyurl.com/4te7nszr

‘Visual White noise’? Stock photo literacies in English education
by Lucinda McKnight, Cara Shipp, Leon Furze and Chris Zomer
ABSTRACT
This article, authored by White European/Australian and First Nations collaborators, addresses an under-recognised and under-researched digital literacy, the capacity to create, use and critique contemporary digital stock photography. Interest in this medium emerges from an Australian study of the teaching of digital writing in secondary English classes, and the development of a writing lab website incorporating images. We propose that researching and studying stock photography demonstrates the complexity of culturally sensitive and respectful digital writing practices. While seeming banal and every day, stock photography provides an accessible example of the ideological powers and potential harms of images deployed at scale by digital platforms. Given the ubiquity of such imagery in society, and the ubiquity of camera technologies, we also reflect on education’s enduring resistance to media studies and other paradigms that seek to develop understanding of digital photography, in use, in the world.

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Reposted by Chris Zomer

Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this study McKnight, Shipp, @leonfurze.com & @chriszomer.bsky.social find that stock photography’s process of ‘turning humans into vaguely human-shaped ideas’ needs to be negotiated carefully as a vital component of digital writing. Read more: tinyurl.com/4te7nszr

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