Imaging Risk

• In Event: Stability and Change in Visual Communication

Abstract

This essay investigates the relationship between environmental communication, visual images and risk societies. I contend that images have been instrumental in creating a narrative for environmental risk in the United States. I argue for the necessity of a visual model of risk communication to be added to the existing technical and cultural models. I provide a case study of images spanning the thirty year controversy over dropping the dioxin laden herbicide Agent Orange in Vietnam.

Author

• Jennifer Peeples, Utah State Univ