The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 15R - 1325068
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315442921
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367592202
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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B - Design Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This volume, edited by myself and my colleague Dr. Basia Sliwinska, investigates the role of the image in the formation of digital communities. Through a series of rigorously researched case studies, written by a carefully selected group of international experts in the field, this multidisciplinary book proposes that images circulated online transform notions about identity, memory, gender as well as cultural belonging. The book argues that the shift from the image as physical object into a digital code has profound implications with regards to perceptions of the self. Further to this, the book investigates the political and ideological efficacy of images in online communities. Contributors to this volume provide a fresh perspective on the role of digital images in the creation and promotion of new forms of resistance, agency and identity within visual cultures. Contributors to the volume include eminent figures in the field such as Nicholas Mirzoeff from New York University NYU.
The main research question for the book is how images circulated in online communities are shaping notions about identity, gender, sexuality and the self. Using this research question as a starting point for a nuanced discussion, the book investigates how the transformation of the image has profound implications with regards to political activism, resistance and subversion. My own chapter for this book investigates the role that images have played in the early days of the Trump administration. My chapter discusses the way that images are increasingly used as a form of political weaponry to attack as well as defend the political status quo. The book is multidisciplinary and methods to analyse the various case studies include visual culture, queer theory, gender studies, political theory and art theory.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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