Images
come attached to captions – this reinforces the notion that websites
are all about knowledge production; with wish fulfillment and needs
satisfaction as driving forces.
What happens in the case of deliberate satire? www.theonion.com
is an example of images deliberately skewed and attached to incorrect
captions. But, who decides how to
define a photo? Who decides which
photos illustrate a certain event?
Most captions are in English – are the English-speaking people in
the photos unconsciously privileged? Return to English Language
Hegemony on the Internet home.
English captions tell you what you are seeing (from an English speaker’s
perspective)
© susan smith nash, 2002