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Image Testimonies: Witnessing in Times of Social Media book cover

1st Edition

Image Testimonies Witnessing in Times of Social Media

Edited By Kerstin Schankweiler, Verena Straub, Tobias Wendl Copyright 2019
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Recent political conflicts signal an increased proliferation of image testimonies shared widely via social media. Although witnessing with and through images is not a phenomenon of the internet era, contemporary digital image practices and politics have significantly intensified the affective economies of image testimonies. This volume traces the contours of these conditions and develops a... Read more

Notes on Contributors





  1. Image Testimonies: Witnessing in Times of Social Media – Kerstin Schankweiler, Verena Straub, Tobias Wendl




    2. PART I: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF TESTIMONIES







  2. Credibility in Crisis: Contradictions of Web Video Witnessing – Sascha Simons








  3. Affective Images and the Political Trial – Jonas Bens






    4. IN CONVERSATION: Fearless Filming—Video Footage from Syria since 2011 – Marianna Liosi with Guevara Namer and Amer Matar





    PART II: AFFECTIVE WITNESSING





  4. "Moroccan Lives Matter": Practices and Politics of Affecting – Kerstin Schankweiler








  5. Drone’s-Eye View: Affective Witnessing and Technicities of Perception – Michael Richardson






    6. PART III: SOCIAL MEDIA PRACTICES







  6. Photographic Witnessing, the Occupation, and Palestinian Politics – Simon Faulkner






  7. Witnessing to Survive: Selfie Videos, Live Mobile Witnessing and Black Necropolitics – Penelope Papailias








  8. Eye, Flesh, World: Three Modes of Digital Witnessing – Paul Frosh






    9. PART IV: WITNESSING DESTRUCTION







  9. "Living Martyrs": Testifying What is to Come – Verena Straub






  10. Testimonies for a New Social Order: The Islamic State’s Iconic Iconoclasm – Christoph Günther, Tom Bioly








  11. From Cape Town to Timbuktu: Iconoclastic Testimonies in the Age of Social Media – Tobias Wendl

Biography

Kerstin Schankweiler is an art historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.



Verena Straub is an art historian and research associate at the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.



Tobias Wendl is Professor for the Arts and Visual Cultures of Africa at the Institute of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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