Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture

ViSmedia team member Øyvind Vågenes newest book Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture is filled with exiting essays that’s pioneering and revelatory the insights into the phenomenon of invisibility, forging new and multi-disciplinary approaches at the intersection of aesthetics, technology, representation and politics. The chapters reveal that the invisible affects many cultural domains, from digital communication and operative images to the activism of social movements, as well as to identity, race, gender and class issues. Whether the subject is comic books, photographic provocations, biometric and brainwave sensing technologies, letters, or a cinematic diary.

Grønstad, Asbjørn and Øyvind Vågenes. 2019. Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. Edited book. Palgrave Macmillan

2019, Surveillance, VisualsHedvig IdåsSeptember 4, 20192019

The Changing Ecology of Tools for Live News Reporting

Journal article by Frode Guribye iand Lars Nyre. This study explores new video tools for television news, and the tinkering that reporting teams need to do to adapt to such tools.They conduct interviews with six journalists and photographers at Norwegian broadcaster TV 2 to explore live news reporting.

Guribye, Frode and Lars Nyre. 2017. “The Changing Ecology of Tools for Live News Reporting”. Journalism Practice 11 (10): 1216-1230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2016.1259011

Migration Maps with the News

In this article, Paul C. Adams examines unusual maps of migration with the aim to provide a foundation for concrete recommendations regarding the responsible use of cartographic visualization as a component of immigration news.

Adams, Paul C. 2017. “Migration Maps with the News”. Journalism Studies 19 (4): 527-547. DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2017.1375387

VisualsGuest UserOctober 10, 2017migration maps, visualization, ethics, cartography, European Union, EU, Europe, hospitality, mapping, migration

Crashing a National Media Event: The Circulation of Social Imaginaries in the Gatecrashers Riots in Finland

Chapter by Taneli Heikka, Katja Valaskivi and Turo Uskali. Investigates the Finnish Independence Day on 6 December, 2013. On this day, violence erupted and several video cameras recorded the event.

Heikka, Taneli., Turo Uskali and Katja Valaskivi. 2016. “Crashing a National Media Event : Circulation of Social Imaginaries in the Gatecrashers Riots in Finland”. In B. Mitu, & S. Poulakidakos (eds.),Media Events : A Critical Contemporary Approach. Palgrave Macmillan.

VisualsGuest UserApril 13, 20162016

Geographies of Media and Communication: Metaphysics of Encounter

Journal artivce by Paul C. Adams. The author argues that there's a new paradigm on its way for geographical studies of media and communication. However, this new paradigm needs to be organized. It includes encounters between human and non-human agents: The metaphysics of encounter.

Social Media Personhood as a Challenge to Research Ethics: Exploring the Case of the Facebook Experiment

Conference paper by Juke Jouhki, Epp Lauk, Maija Penttinen and Turo Uskali. It explores research ethics in the era of social media and big data by discussing a debated Facebook experiment about emotional contagion.

Jouhki, Jukka, Epp Lauk, Majja Penttinen, Jukka Rohila, Niina Sormanen and Turo Uskali. 2015. “Social media personhood as a challenge to research ethics: Exploring the case of the Facebook experiment”.

VisualsSiri FlatlandsmoNovember 20, 20152015, social media, Facebook, ethics

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