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New Visualities, New Technologies The New Ecstasy of Communication

By J. Macgregor Wise, Hille Koskela Copyright 2013
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge
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    Back in the 1980s Jean Baudrillard wrote that public space was collapsing due to a double obscenity: 'The most intimate operation of your life becomes the potential grazing ground of the media....The entire universe also unfolds unnecessarily on your home screen.' He termed this the ecstasy of communication. But today, your everyday life is not just the potential grazing ground of the media, but of anyone with a camera, and the entire universe unfolds not just at home but in the palm of your hand virtually anywhere you travel. 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.

    Chapter 1 Introduction: Ecstatic Assemblages of Visuality, J. Macgregor Wise; Chapter 1a Ecstatic Updates: Facebook, Identity, and the Fractal Subject, Mark Nunes; Chapter 2 Mapping Narbs, Ananda Mitra; Chapter 3 Will the Real Digital Girl Please Stand Up?: Examining the Gap Between Policy Dialogue and Girls' Accounts of their Digital Existence, Jane Bailey, Valerie Steeves; Chapter 4 Vision, Inertia, and the Mobile Telephone: On the Origins of Control Space and the Spread of Sociopolitical Cybernetics, John Armitage; Chapter 5 'Right to the Image': Images of Dignity, Representations of Humiliation, Hille Koskela; Chapter 6 Frames of Discontent: Social Media, Mobile Intimacy and the Boundaries of Media Practice, Larissa Hjorth; Chapter 7 Creativity on Display? Visibility Conflicts or the Claim for Opacity as Ethical Resource, Ursula Anna Frohne; Chapter 8 Performative Pictures: Camera Phones at the Ready, Brooke A. Knight; Chapter 9 Mobile Snapshots: Pictorial Communication in the Age of Tertiary Orality, Dong-Hoo Lee; Chapter 10 Sex, Spectatorship, and the 'œNeda' Video: A Biopsy, Theresa M. Senft;

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    J. Macgregor Wise, Hille Koskela

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