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Title New visualities, new technologies : the new ecstasy of communication / by J. Macgregor Wise and Hille Koskela, [editors]
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2012

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Contents Introduction: ecstatic assemblages of visuality / J. Macgregor Wise -- Ecstatic updates : Facebook, identity and the fractal subject / Mark Nunes -- Mapping Narbs / Ananda Mitra -- Will the real digital girl please stand up? : examining the gap between policy dialogue and girls' accounts of their digital existence / Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves -- Vision, inertia, and the mobile telephone : on the origins of control space and the spread of sociopolitical cybernetics / John Armitage -- 'Right to the image': images of dignity, representations of humiliation / Hille Koskela -- Frames of discontent : social media, mobile intimacy, and the boundaries of media practice / Larissa Hjorth -- Creativity on display? : visibility conflicts or the claim for opacity as ethical resource / Ursula Anna Frohne -- Performative pictures : camera phones at the ready / Brooke A. Knight -- Mobile snapshots : pictorial communication in the age of tertiary orality / Dong-Hoo Lee -- Sex, spectatorship, and the 'Neda video' : a biopsy / Theresa M. Senft
Summary Bringing together a transdisciplinary team of leading scholars and artists from North America, Europe and Asia, this volume documents and theorizes this new visibility. It focuses on the proliferation of a range of new visual technologies, examining questions of subjectivity, agency, and surveillance as well as mapping and theorizing new practices of visuality within this new visual assemblage. New Visualities, New Technologies addresses the pressing need for the conceptual understanding of new forms of seeing, looking, presenting, and hiding
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Visual communication.
Digital communications.
Communication -- Technological innovations
Communication -- Technological innovations
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
Digital communications
Communication -- Technological innovations
Visual communication
Technische ontwikkeling.
Beeldcommunicatie.
Form Electronic book
Author Wise, J. Macgregor (John Macgregor), editor
Koskela, Hille, editor
LC no. 2012029566
ISBN 9781409403586
1409403580
9781299263376
1299263372
9781472404435
1472404432