Where Truth Lies : Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11 / Kris Fallon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fallon, Kris, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--Political aspects--United States--21st century.

Digital media.

Documentary mass media--United States--21st century.

Documentary mass media.

Mass media--Objectivity--United States--21st century.

Mass media.

Online social networks--Political aspects--21st century.

Online social networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 227 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland University of California Press 2019

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms-social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization-and demonstrates the formative influence of political conflict and the documentary film tradition on their evolution and cultural integration. Focusing on particular moments of political rupture, Fallon argues that the ideological rifts of the period inspired the adoption and adaptation of newly available technologies to encourage social mobilization and political action, a function performed for much of the previous century by independent documentary film. Positioning documentary film and digital media side by side in the political sphere, Fallon asserts that "truth" now lies in a new set of media forms and discursive practices that implicitly shape the documentation of everything from widespread cultural spectacles like wars and presidential elections to more invisible or isolated phenomena like the Abu Ghraib torture scandal or the "fake news" debates of 2016.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Seeing in the Dark

2. "We See What We Want to Believe": Archival Logic and Database Aesthetics in the War Films of Errol Morris

3. Networked Audiences: MoveOn.org and Brave New Films

4. "States of Exception": The Paradox of Virtual Documentary Representation

5. Technology, Transparency, and the Digital Presidency

6. Post-Truth Politics: Conspiracy Media and the Specter of "Fake News"

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520300934

0520300939

OCLC:

1108793216

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access