biology textbooks are interesting because they're often lovingly illustrated with blown out drawings in lots of colors with labels but sometimes interspersed are photos of (eg) cells under microscopes the latter, despite being a "true" image, are often less useful for learning
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here for example is a stained slide of some epithelial tissue (or some other kind, who knows) in fact here are a bunch of kinds of tissue (a bunch of similar cells) stain and magnification aside--themselves an visual aides--this is what cells "look" like what have you learned?pic.twitter.com/SAMSDLAEmN
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Here is another depiction of a cell It is not at all what a cell "looks" like as you can see from above But I bet it is much more useful in finding out about cells: it has lots of labels, different bits that are invisible above are colored in contrast and blown up, and so onpic.twitter.com/obfIr6bp3g
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Both of these are useful of course, and complimentary. Without knowing much about cells, the carefully laid out diagram is much more helpful in learning a bit about what the hell a cell is. Of course, if you only saw the diagram you would be missing other crucial context.
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Videos of (eg) police shootings are great because historically police controlled narratives around police violence; people got to see a diagram of a cell drawn by cells. Very tidy, very helpful, and in this case deeply misleading Video makes such authorial abuses difficult
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at the same time, videos are really not complete evidence; they suppress information and elide context
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Blake was repeatedly shot in the back . . . maybe carrying a knife, after someone reported a violent rape (not depicted) Floyd died while a cop kneeled on him . . . with vast quantities of fentanyl in his system (not depicted)
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I'm not offering a judgment about any of these cases per se Rather just want to highlight that in every case the immediate public reaction is based entirely on rapidly-available video that is evaluated exclusively on its own merits sans any diagram analogue
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Video is incomplete, moves very quickly online without context, and as audiovisual information is much more evocative that prose is difficult to criticize So Expect lots of dumb decisions made on the basis of it going forward I guess Contemplate this on the Tree of Woepic.twitter.com/8Xbz88Cwk4
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If images are treacherous, than video must be at least 24 times as treacherous per second.
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