{POE} Question 3

Question 3; Digital Communication and Fluencies

Digital communication is the electronic exchange of information. I think the image is inappropriate from the given context. “Personal digital communication can have far-reaching impacts” (Module Manual. 2016; 61).

With the arrival of social media, there is a greater risk of over-sharing, inadvertent bullying or just plain maliciousness. It is imperative that thought is given to the audience and to the type of message being sent, the language that is used and the manner in which it is delivered. By not following good netiquette, the communication becomes inappropriate.

An authentic picture of an incident during the Vietnamese war in 1972.

The most famous being a stunning black-and-white image from the Vietnam War that's come to be known simply as "Napalm Girl". The “Napalm-Girl” post was soiled with a lot of controversy because of the nakedness of the girl which is seen by some critics as a violation of best practice.

According to Campbell, J (2017) it was stated that the photo was taken in a time of great stress and many think it helped power the public against the war and that it helped accelerate the wars end. And although these myths have been exposed there is still the opinion that the photo has an emotional impact, which for me is true.

The photo highlights one of the heartbreaks that happened in the Vietnamese war and the photo shows the terrified child running naked down a country road, her body literally burning from the napalm bombs dropped on her village just moments before the image it was captured. The photo shows the horror and pain that not only children went through, but adults as well. It shows a scene that the world needed to see. "This picture revealed the kind of details that were an essential part of what the war had been about, which made it so significant and important to be published" said Peter Arnett.

The fears of a war; it didn’t matter that although it was thought to be an American attack and was actually a South Vietnamese air force pilot, the point is to show how bad the war was and the impact it had on humans. The girl in the photo, Kim Phuc was nine at the time and she survived with horrible scarring to her body and she wasn’t the only one. Many people died, many people were injured and scarred for life, and the world needed to see that.

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