Images, ethics, technology / edited by Sharrona Pearl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Pearl, Sharrona, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual communication.

Communication and technology.

Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Relating images / Sharrona Pearl

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781315677590

1315677598

Publisher Number:

99977231309

40025521550

40025524307

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.