Images, Ethics, Technology explores the changing ethical implications of images and the ways they are communicated and understood. It emphasises how images change not only through their modes of representation, but through our relationship to them. In order to understand images, we must understand how they are produced, communicated, and displayed. Each of the 14 essays chart the relationship to technology as part of a larger complex social and cultural matrix, highlighting how these relations constrain and enable notions of responsibility with respect to images and what they represent. They demonstrate that as technology develops and changes, the images themselves change, not just with respect to content, but in the very meanings and indices they produce. This is a collection that not only asks: who speaks for the art? But also: who speaks for the witnesses, the cameras, the documented, the landscape, the institutional platforms, the taboos, those wishing to be forgotten, those being seen and the experience of viewing itself? Images, Ethics, Technology is ideal for advanced level students and researchers in media and communications, visual culture and cultural studies.
Author(s): Sharrona Pearl
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2016
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 223
Tags: Visual Communication; Communication And Technology; Technology: Moral And Ethical Aspects
Cover
Half title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Introduction: Relating images
Communication and images
Outline of the book
Notes
Part I: Authorizing images
Chapter 1: Introduction: Interrogating the authority of the image
Notes
Chapter 2: Technologies of bystanding: Learning to see like a bystander
A movement-identified approach to bystanding
Video evidence for the social problem of bystanding
The “look” of taking responsibility
Notes
Chapter 3: Professionalizing police media work: Surveillance video evidence and the forensic sensibility
Legitimizing FVA as a field of professional expertise
Professional association, training, and certification in FVA
Computational objectivity
Digital image authentication and computational objectivity
Cops and computation
Notes
Chapter 4: Collision in a courtroom
Notes
Chapter 5: “Who speaks for the art?”
Notes
Part II: Memorializing images
Chapter 6: Introduction: Residual/visual: images and their specters
Notes
Chapter 7: Facebook photography and the demise of Kodak and Polaroid
Kodak
Polaroid
Facebook
Notes
Chapter 8: Forgiving without forgetting: Contending with digit
A burp in public
Managing mediated embarrassments
Right to forget?
Distant forgiveness?
Notes
Chapter 9: Ambiguity, cinema and the digital documentary image
Notes
Part III: Embodying images
Chapter 10: Introduction: Subjectification as embodiment; subjectification is embodiment
Notes
Chapter 11: The autonomy of the eye: Neuro-politics and population in design and cybernetics
Political spectacle
Scales of the image
Algorithmic cinema
Cybernetic vision
Machine spectators
Archive
Violence?
Notes
Chapter 12: Sensory topographies of wind and power in Kansas
Wheat, worry, and wind
The beauty ring and the office in the sky
Field rescue: suspended agency on the ground
Conclusion: seeing topographically
Notes
Chapter 13: The face as a medium
Notes
Index
