1st Edition
New Visualities, New Technologies The New Ecstasy of Communication
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... Read more
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;
Biography
J. Macgregor Wise, Hille Koskela
