- Look at the illusion they want to achieve not gesture of a person.

Don't do narrative themes (useless | others have done it). Don't mirror what Virtual Caliphate did.
you could mention in your paper about the themes but that's it.

Check: Aby Warburg: art historian and cultural theorist who worked with Panofsky method)

Look at how images are done.

The graphic mindset of the Islamic State material

Selfies | video games | pantings | iconic photographs | Soviet Union (similarities? Compare. And what does it mean if there is similarity with pop cultural references? What knowledge do I gain?

Next meeting February 12th 2019.