Transient images
Subtitle: personal media in public frameworks
By: Eric Freedman
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781439903261; 9781439903278; 9781439903285
Description: 'In this probing study, Eric Freedman focuses on what images from photography, mobile communications, And The Internet reveal about looking. Exploring subjectivity by critically examining the look, he elaborates on the nature of the photographic frame and its relation to interpretive practices. Freedman scrutinizes what he calls "techno-biography"-a life written through technology, and considers the movement of personal images into public spaces. He also considers authorship that situates the self as inherently engaged with and inscribed by information technology.All of the chapters in Transient Imagesexplore Freedman's interest in examining how media technologies activate particular notions of self and community. He provides examples that address trauma-pictures of missing children on milk cartons and episodes of the reality series Intervention-as well as the strategies behind creating and distributing personal advertisements on the Internet. Transient Imagesdraws out the tensions that exist in images circulating in the digital era.'--from google.com.hk.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Have you seen this child?": from milk carton to mise-en-abyme; title: Private photos/public traumas: national memories and moving images; title: Trauma and the cellular imaginary; title: Intervention and the Kodak moment; title: The architectures of cyberdating; title: The social fabric of images.