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This picture above is shows the article that become an controversial issue and history in Denmark. Four years a go, Danish company had a creative experiment to make a cartoon of Muhammad, as we know as a prophets in Muslim.this is happen to test whether the cartoonist are afraid of the ethnic issue that happen in Denmark. 44 are invited but only 15 of them respond.The result is, 12 caricature of Muhammad that published in the newspaper, and it made a history in Denmark. Denmark's embassy in Damascus had been torched, Danish consulate in Beirut was being set in fire, moreover, Danish Prime Minister were burnt in Turkey. Protest has turn into riots from Middle East to other countries, caused 450 people killed, and 800 people injured. The caricatures believed were against sacred iconography by Muslim
I believe that there is a fear that could be a threat from Muslim that makes Denmark take the experiment. Although they had ppromised to the comicus to publish the caricatures, as a media they should filter information that relevant to the public. According to Bonde (2005) Media Should be responsible for the securing coherence and inclusion of all groups in society and aware of exercise of the freedom does not take place in space without societal context.
the media should understand the background of the audience before they publish something, because the cultural background is a strong factor of the audience to interpret something. According to Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) visual meaning are too indefinite, people can make radically different meaning from an imagge due to respective cultural background, past experience and level of knowledge. text must come together to arrive definite meaning. If it is not complete, there is always miss interpretation that happen.
I believe that there is a fear that could be a threat from Muslim that makes Denmark take the experiment. Although they had ppromised to the comicus to publish the caricatures, as a media they should filter information that relevant to the public. According to Bonde (2005) Media Should be responsible for the securing coherence and inclusion of all groups in society and aware of exercise of the freedom does not take place in space without societal context.
the media should understand the background of the audience before they publish something, because the cultural background is a strong factor of the audience to interpret something. According to Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) visual meaning are too indefinite, people can make radically different meaning from an imagge due to respective cultural background, past experience and level of knowledge. text must come together to arrive definite meaning. If it is not complete, there is always miss interpretation that happen.
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For example picture of Mohammad above, with the bomb as a turban. In my interpretation this caricature without a word make me create an negative meaning. It should be something about suicide bomb that actually part of Mohammad followers, my interpretation straight pointing to the one community, which is Muslim. This kind of thought that actually make the riots happen. because different people tend to have different interpretation depends on their cultural background, Schriver (1997, p365)References:
Schiver, KA, 1997, Chapter 6: Interplay of words and pictures, in Dynamics in document design: creating text for readers, Wiley Computer Pub, New York
Bonde N, 2005, Media and Communication in Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building-Exploring strategies for International and UN-led Conflic transformation, Roskilde: Roskilde Un iversity
Kress,G.& van Leeuwen, T.(2006), “ The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication in reading images”, Routledge, London.
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