· 2013
The Photographic Image in Digital Culture
- 372citations
- 2013year
Short summary
Digital technology fundamentally alters how we encounter and use images in advertising, news, entertainment, and private life, impacting our sense of self, identity, and sexuality.
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Key points
- Digital technology is transforming the nature and use of images across various domains, including advertising, news, and entertainment.
- The shift to digital impacts personal identity, self-perception, and views on the body and sexuality.
- New surveillance technologies and the domestic consumption of images are altering relationships with memory, history, and biography.
- The roles of photography as a documentary tool and as an art form are being redefined by digital advancements.
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Abstract
What does a new technology of images mean for the ways in which we encounter and use images in everyday life: in advertising, entertainment, news, evidence? And within our domestic and private worlds for our sense of self and indentity; our view of the body and our sexuality? The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the technological transformation of the image and its implications for photography. Contributors investigate such issues as the relationship of technological change to visual culture; the new discourses of `techno-culture'; medicine's new vision of the body, and interactive pornography. They also examine the cultural meanings of new surveillance images; shifts in the domestic consumption of images and their relationship to memory, history and biography; the social uses of video and computer games and the changing role of photography as document and as art.
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