This week's topic of 'looking' has addressed different perceptions and the multiple ways images can be perceived by the viewer. Such examples raised by the text (Introduction to Textual Analysis, p. 7) included a confrontation by a group of six young men and the way this could be perceived by different people with different personal experiences. While many of the denoted meanings that could be read into this particular image would be similar, if not the same, the connoted meanings could be seen quite differently.
A recent media example of the concept may include the controversy over refugees arriving illegally in Australia by boat. While some believe that these people deserve a second chance in Australia after the hardship they have previously been through, others contest this idea with views that they are cheating the system and taking the jobs and changing the way of life of the Australian public and those who have come legally and through the proper channels.
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