Exploring the politics of visibility: Technology, digital representation, and the mediated workings of power
| Autor: | Brian Creech |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Cognitive science
Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory 05 social sciences Visibility (geometry) Representation (systemics) Post structuralism 050801 communication & media studies Language and Linguistics 0506 political science Power (social and political) Politics 0508 media and communications 050602 political science & public administration Semiotics Sociology |
| Zdroj: | Semiotica. 2020:123-139 |
| ISSN: | 1613-3692 0037-1998 |
| Popis: | For the better part of the past decade, global social movements have drawn popular attention to the power of image production and acts of representation, particularly the ways ubiquitous cameras challenge the exercise of power This essay lays out a theoretical schema for interrogating a broader “politics of visibility” at work in the early twenty-first century, most readily apparent through the activities of smartphone-enabled and visually-savvy activists. As new media technologies have opened up new strategies of representation, these modes of representation have been incorporated into existing media practices that delimit the ways in which the consequentiality of various movements and political projects can be understood. Theoretically revisiting the concept of visibility, this essay critiques the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge in media studies before arguing that the visibility of an event presages a consequentiality partially determined by the ways in which it is rendered perceptible and thus, intelligible. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|