Lecture: If You Could Believe Your Eyes: Images and Fake News

With the information age expending at such an unprecedented rate over the last decade, the distribution of news and images across numerous media sources has also increased to meet the publics insatiable demand for more and more news. Indeed, the amount of words and images flooding across the globe has generated an anxiety which has caused many to wonder if what they are reading or viewing is real, or contrived. The fact is, most of the world cannot define for themselves what appears in the news and popular