Introduction: Hyper-Visuality: Images in the Era of Social Platforms, Digital Archives and Computational Economies

IF 1.2 2区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION
Enzo D’Armenio, Maria Giulia Dondero
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Images are today at the centre of multiple social and technological tensions as a consequence of the adoption of digital coding, of the massive diffusion of social networks and of the algorithmic processing to which they are subject, resulting in new opportunities for developing analytical inquiries and meaning-producing social actions. In this introduction, the authors intend to reconstruct the broad context that makes images one of the most important resources of the digital era and to focus on some of the research tracks that characterize it. In the first part, they begin by focusing on the relationship between images and the digital, which they retrace in accordance with the selection of three key moments: the transition from ontology to the epistemology of digital media; the opening, by social networks and portable devices, of a field for the computational study of contemporary cultures; and, finally, the analytical potential arising from the encounter between digital archives and computer algorithms. In the second part, they present the three axes around which this issue is structured: archives, identity and algorithms. They first of all discuss the concept of the archive, by presenting four different understandings it has come to bear in conjunction with digital encoding – the archive as heritage, resource, effect and as database. They go on to address the relation between images and identities, arguing that social platforms and visual apps are a new domain for identity experimentation and social aggregation. Finally, they discuss the issue of algorithms and more generally of the new computational economy that associates large amounts of data with their mobilization as operational images.
导言:超视觉:社交平台、数字档案和计算经济时代的图像
由于数字编码的采用、社交网络的大规模传播以及算法处理的结果,图像如今处于多种社会和技术紧张局势的中心,为开展分析研究和创造意义的社会行动带来了新的机遇。在这篇导言中,作者打算重新构建使图像成为数字时代最重要的资源之一的大背景,并重点关注其特点的一些研究方向。在第一部分中,他们首先关注图像与数字之间的关系,并根据三个关键时刻的选择对其进行了回溯:从本体论到数字媒体认识论的过渡;社交网络和便携式设备为当代文化的计算研究开辟了一个领域;最后,数字档案与计算机算法相遇所产生的分析潜力。在第二部分中,他们介绍了本议题所围绕的三个轴心:档案、身份和算法。他们首先讨论了档案的概念,提出了档案与数字编码相结合的四种不同理解--档案作为遗产、资源、效果和数据库。接着,他们讨论了图像与身份之间的关系,认为社交平台和视觉应用程序是身份实验和社会聚合的新领域。最后,他们讨论了算法问题,以及更广泛意义上的新计算经济问题,这种经济将大量数据与作为可操作图像的移动数据联系在一起。
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Visual Communication
Visual Communication COMMUNICATION-
CiteScore
3.40
自引率
13.30%
发文量
45
期刊介绍: Visual Communication provides an international forum for the growing body of work in numerous interrelated disciplines. Its broad coverage includes: still and moving images; graphic design and typography; visual phenomena such as fashion, professional vision, posture and interaction; the built and landscaped environment; the role of the visual in relation to language, music, sound and action.
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