ABSTRACT
Building knowledge about how to read images and learning how image works in digital spaces is of vital importance for several reasons. First, young children through adults regularly use digital devices for a range of purposes. Activity in digital spaces, especially accessed through mobile phones, increases people's access to digital images, and the constant interruption of texts like advertisements, pop-up texts, and videos. Elements of critical literacy, intra-action, and participation inform work on the analysis of images and reading in digital times and digital spaces. As viewers of information and images, people must be aware that they are also viewed by search engines, most often re-materializing as consumers given the digital spaces that people inhabit daily. While published work in analyzing visual imagery lay primarily in critical and structural approaches to reading image, we also recognize the importance of critical perspectives in understanding viewing in digital spaces.
