According to Merriam Webster Meta: showing or suggesting an explicit awareness of itself or oneself as a member of its category : cleverly self-referential
The assignment was to show depth of field through photography, Zaria Shields (seen in the wallpaper on her phone) in her intuitiveness innovated in the current lesson. She looked at her phone looked at the camera and without noticing that meta-photography was a style. She places her phone in the scene adding to it a whole element that would illustrate cunning.
DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice aims to bridge the digital divide by combining media literacy and cultural awareness along with a vast understanding of technology to encourage young women in under served communities to pursue careers in computer science and new media.
