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Author Grace, Helen

Title Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media : the Prosaic Image
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (248 pages)
Series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series
Media, culture, and social change in Asia series.
Contents Cover; Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Dynamic sequencing of cultural genomes'?; Teleconference; Data +/- substance; Patterns, rhythms; Inter-face; General aesthesia; General intellect and the quantification of reading; The vernacular image; The value of the prosaic; Culture, aesthetics, affect; The structure of this book; A note on voice and translation; Notes
1 Spectral monumentality and the face of time: virtuality, distortions of scale and asynchrony in post-colonial Hong KongHorizontal monumentality and official iconoclasm; The archive of the present; 'We are left only with reminiscences'; The spectral monument; The face of time; Notes; 2 The surrogate image and blog life: mobility in the everyday blogosphere; Monumentality and miniaturization; Fuzziness and soft atmosphere; Moments, instants and the detonation of the image; Working and not working; Everyday festival; Weddings; Vectors and visual space; General aesthesia; Animate life
Baby faceGeneral patterns; Reviewing, sharing images; Notes; 3 Sounding the image: between visuality and orality; Psychogeography and defamiliarization; 'Leng dou baao ja' ('explosive quality') and the faai leng jeng method; Database and emotional fluctuation; 'Beautiful ... and feeling ... '; The difference in feeling; Prosopopoeia and animalization; Small narrative to grand narrative; 'The randomness of the individual imagination'; Notes; 4 Particulate vision and the evasion of capture; Envisioning in the space of blind visibility; Iconophobia; Iconophilia; Algorithmic interestingness
Virtual databaseMeasure, tempo; Scoring images: atmosphere, episode ... ; Micro-expression, emoticon, smile detection; 'The essential unity of writing, number, image and tone'; Camera phones -- years of use; Use patterns; Frequency of image production; Multiple camera phone ownership; Networks, families, conflicts; Notes; 5 iPhone girl: assembly, assemblages and affect in the life of an image; A small biography of the image; The turn to surface; Super-Fordism; Labour as visual abstraction; A bright spark; A bigger picture; The virgin product and the invisibility of labour
Happy workers: the image of labour as productThe mass ornament of production; 'Just an image' as a just image?; Notes; Appendix: on methods; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book argues that ubiquitous media and user-created content establish a new perception of the world that can be called 'particulate vision', involving a different relation to reality that better represents the atomization of contemporary experience especially apparent in social media. Drawing on extensive original research including detailed ethnographic investigation of camera phone practices in Hong Kong, as well as visual analysis identifying the patterns, regularities and genres of such work, it shows how new distributed forms of creativity and subjectivity now work to shif
Notes Print version record
Subject Cell phones -- Social aspects
Blogs.
Communication and culture.
Creative ability.
Technological innovations.
Creativity
blogs.
creativity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Blogs
Cell phones -- Social aspects
Communication and culture
Creative ability
Technological innovations
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134664955
1134664958