Seeing and believing: religion, digital visual culture, and social justice
"If anyone still questions the power of visual images to propel political action, the constant stream of videos circulating on social media-police killings of Black men and women, prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, celebrating participants in the January 2021 Capitol uprising-have cap...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ New media
/ Photography
/ Visualization
/ Social justice
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Photojournalism
Political aspects
B Visual sociology B Digital Media Social aspects B Journalism and social justice B Photography Psychological aspects |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Armour, Ellen T., 1959-: Seeing and believing. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2023. - 9780231557764 |
| Summary: | "If anyone still questions the power of visual images to propel political action, the constant stream of videos circulating on social media-police killings of Black men and women, prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, celebrating participants in the January 2021 Capitol uprising-have captured the attention of a nation. But exactly what those videos purport to show is often a matter of dispute. Interpretation is in the eyes and mind of the beholder. Deep disagreement to the point of physical violence both reflects the contested events these videos depict and threatens to further entrench political and social divisions. Visual images amplify, accelerate, and even generate vastly different storylines; they show us who and what we are. Whether we can or should believe what we see in visual media is a quandary as old as media itself. Because what we think we see "moves" us-emotionally and ethically-the stakes have always been high. Those stakes are, if anything, even higher now given the impact of our visually saturated media landscape, created by the confluence of digital technologies, smart phones equipped with digital cameras, and social-media platforms. Seeing and Believing focuses on the challenges and opportunities that this complex media landscape presents to us. It examines how these technologies are deliberately designed to influence what we see and how we interpret it. Seemingly godlike-all-seeing-in its reach and persuasive power, we underestimate our own power to resist. Untangling the often unconscious and unacknowledged normative cultural biases that have shaped the media ecosystem (marked by what philosopher George Yancy calls "the white gaze") and learning to see, think, feel, believe, and act differently can be greatly assisted by viewing our worship of technology as a theology and dismantling it with the tools of theology itself"-- Setting the stage -- Life on the new public scquare -- (Re)making us -- Reframing photography -- Photographic insurrection. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0231209053 |