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New visualities, new technologies : the new ecstasy of communication / by J. Macgregor Wise and Hille Koskela, [editors].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781409403586
  • 1409403580
  • 9781299263376
  • 1299263372
  • 9781472404435
  • 1472404432
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New visualities, new technologies.DDC classification:
  • 302.2 23
LOC classification:
  • P93.5 .N53 2012eb
Other classification:
  • 05.02
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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.

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