Photojournalism Today

In today’s world where we can share photos of what is going on in our lives with anyone at a moment’s notice through the use of our smartphones and social media accounts, what role does photojournalism really play in our society? Is it becoming obsolete as a career?

With the release of social media websites and apps such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, along with the invention of smartphones with fairly featured cameras in their own rights, many people feel that the role of typical photojournalists in spreading news has virtually vanished.

Now any witness to an event can simply snap a photo with their smartphone and post it to social media almost instantly, thus making it much easier to share news with the world, while most photojournalists use DSLR cameras, which do not allow instant sharing of the photos, thus forcing the photographer to wait until he or she has access to a computer to share their photos with the world.

And possibly even more important is the nature of the photos being shared on social media-the people taking these photos and sharing them online don’t have to wait to write an article about the photo or let their publisher see them first-they can simply post them instantly and say whatever they want about the event depicted in their photo.

Technology like this that allows anyone to become a type of journalist is the reason why many people believe that the roles of traditional journalists will soon vanish and be replaced by normal, everyday people.

Ms Marvel: A Cultural Phenomenon

Recently, Marvel comics has been confronting the problem of cruel treatment towards the Muslim community directly through its comic books-specifically, the Ms. Marvel series, featuring Kamala Khan, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani-American girl from Jersey City, New Jersey.

Kamala first appeared in Captain Marvel:Issue 14 in August of 2013. In the Marvel Universe, Kamala Khan is a young girl who learns that she has Inhuman abilities after being exposed to terrigen mist at the end of the Inhumanity storyline.

After Marvel announced that a Muslim character would be headlining a comic book series, public reaction was very verbal, and the first issue of Ms. Marvel won the Hugo Award for best graphic story in 2015.

The character was created by Marvel writers and artists who wanted to provide the public with an accurate portrayal of the life a Muslim-American.

At first, the creators of the character had intended for her to be an Arab girl from Dearborn, Michigan, but chose instead to make her a Pakistani girl from Jersey City, New Jersey, because they wanted to make it more likely for the character to be able to interact with other Marvel characters and storylines, many of which happen in the city of New York.

The creators have said that one of the points of the character is that she has to overcome being a second-string hero from a second-string city.

The story not only focuses on Kamala’s battles with supervillains, but also focuses on her battles with her own religion and cultural identity.

Many people have also compared the character to Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, due to the fact that they are both teenage superheroes who have to come to grips with their new lives and powers.

However, despite this comparison, the differences between the two characters are quite obvious. While Peter Parker may have had to face many problems throughout his life, his race was never really one of them, being a white male, while Kamala Khan must find her way through life while having to learn who she really is. American or Pakistani? Or both?

Because of Kamala Khan’s cultural background, she has to face many challenges that no other superheroes have to face, and she has to face them while also facing herself.

Her biggest conflict isn’t the battles she faces across her city with the attacking supervillains and everyday criminals, but more the internal conflict she faces twenty-four-seven.