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Media ventriloquism : how audiovisual technologies transform the voice-body relationship / edited by Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Fleeger, and Shannon Wong Lerner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Identity (Psychology) in mass media.
- Voice in mass media.
- Characters and characteristics in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- The word 'ventriloquism' has traditionally referred to the act of throwing one's voice into an object that appears to speak. Media Ventriloquism repurposes the term to reflect our complex vocal relationship with media technologies. The 21st century has offered an array of technological means to separate voice from body, practices which have been used for good and ill. We currently zoom about the internet, in conversations full of audio glitches, using tools that make it possible to live life at a distance. Yet at the same time, these technologies subject us to the potential for audiovisual manipulation. But this voice/body split is not new. This book explores some of these experiences of ventriloquism and considers the political and ethical implications of separating bodies from voices.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756366-X
- 0-19-756364-3
- OCLC:
- 1241449389
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