
Images, Ethics, Technology
Sharrona Pearl(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
222 pages
978-1-138-93515-0 (ISBN)
Description
Images, Ethics, Technology explores the changing ethical implications of images and the ways they are communicated and understood.
It emphasises how images change not only through their modes of representation, but through our relationship to them. In order to understand images, we must understand how they are produced, communicated, and displayed.
Each of the 14 essays chart the relationship to technology as part of a larger complex social and cultural matrix, highlighting how these relations constrain and enable notions of responsibility with respect to images and what they represent. They demonstrate that as technology develops and changes, the images themselves change, not just with respect to content, but in the very meanings and indices they produce.
This is a collection that not only asks: who speaks for the art? But also: who speaks for the witnesses, the cameras, the documented, the landscape, the institutional platforms, the taboos, those wishing to be forgotten, those being seen and the experience of viewing itself?
Images, Ethics, Technology is ideal for advanced level students and researchers in media and communications, visual culture and cultural studies.
It emphasises how images change not only through their modes of representation, but through our relationship to them. In order to understand images, we must understand how they are produced, communicated, and displayed.
Each of the 14 essays chart the relationship to technology as part of a larger complex social and cultural matrix, highlighting how these relations constrain and enable notions of responsibility with respect to images and what they represent. They demonstrate that as technology develops and changes, the images themselves change, not just with respect to content, but in the very meanings and indices they produce.
This is a collection that not only asks: who speaks for the art? But also: who speaks for the witnesses, the cameras, the documented, the landscape, the institutional platforms, the taboos, those wishing to be forgotten, those being seen and the experience of viewing itself?
Images, Ethics, Technology is ideal for advanced level students and researchers in media and communications, visual culture and cultural studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
52 s/w Abbildungen, 52 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
52 Halftones, black and white; 52 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-93515-0 (9781138935150)
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Sharrona Pearl is Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain, was published by Harvard University Press in 2010. She is currently working on a book entitled Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other.
Content
Introduction
Relating Images
Sharrona Pearl
Section I: Authorizing Images
Introduction: Interrogating the Authority of the Image
Nora Draper
Technologies of Bystanding: Learning to See Like a Bystander
Carrie A. Rentschler
Professionalizing Police Media Work: Surveillance Video and the Forensic Sensibility
Kelly Gates
Collision in a Courtroom
Constance Penley
"Who speaks for the art?"
Larry Gross
Section II: Memorializing Images
Introduction: Residual/Visual: Images and their Specters
Kevin Gotkin
Facebook Photography and the Demise of Kodak and Polaroid
Marita Sturken
Forgiving without Forgetting: Contending with Digital Memory
Ira Wagman
Ambiguity, Cinema and the Digital Documentary Image
Roderick Coover
Section III: Embodying Images
Introduction: Subjectification as Embodiment; Subjectification is Embodiment
Alexandra Sastre and Nicholas Gilewicz
The Autonomy of the Eye: Neuro-politics and Population in Design and Cybernetics
Orit Halpern
Sensory Topographies of Wind and Power in Kansas
Lisa Cartwright and Steven Rubin
The Face as a Medium
Amit Pinchevski
Relating Images
Sharrona Pearl
Section I: Authorizing Images
Introduction: Interrogating the Authority of the Image
Nora Draper
Technologies of Bystanding: Learning to See Like a Bystander
Carrie A. Rentschler
Professionalizing Police Media Work: Surveillance Video and the Forensic Sensibility
Kelly Gates
Collision in a Courtroom
Constance Penley
"Who speaks for the art?"
Larry Gross
Section II: Memorializing Images
Introduction: Residual/Visual: Images and their Specters
Kevin Gotkin
Facebook Photography and the Demise of Kodak and Polaroid
Marita Sturken
Forgiving without Forgetting: Contending with Digital Memory
Ira Wagman
Ambiguity, Cinema and the Digital Documentary Image
Roderick Coover
Section III: Embodying Images
Introduction: Subjectification as Embodiment; Subjectification is Embodiment
Alexandra Sastre and Nicholas Gilewicz
The Autonomy of the Eye: Neuro-politics and Population in Design and Cybernetics
Orit Halpern
Sensory Topographies of Wind and Power in Kansas
Lisa Cartwright and Steven Rubin
The Face as a Medium
Amit Pinchevski