Where Truth Lies
eBook - ePub

Where Truth Lies

Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Where Truth Lies

Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11

About this book

Afree open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms—social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization—and demonstrates the formative influence of political conflict and the documentary film tradition on their evolution and cultural integration. Focusing on particular moments of political rupture, Fallon argues that the ideological rifts of the period inspired the adoption and adaptation of newly available technologies to encourage social mobilization and political action, a function performed for much of the previous century by independent documentary film. Positioning documentary film and digital media side by side in the political sphere, Fallon asserts that "truth" now lies in a new set of media forms and discursive practices that implicitly shape the documentation of everything from widespread cultural spectacles like wars and presidential elections to more invisible or isolated phenomena like the Abu Ghraib torture scandal or the "fake news" debates of 2016.

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Information

Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780520300934
eBook ISBN
9780520972117

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. 1. Seeing in the Dark
  9. 2. “We See What We Want to Believe”: Archival Logic and Database Aesthetics in the War Films of Errol Morris
  10. 3. Networked Audiences: MoveOn.org and Brave New Films
  11. 4. “States of Exception”: The Paradox of Virtual Documentary Representation
  12. 5. Technology, Transparency, and the Digital Presidency
  13. 6. Post-Truth Politics: Conspiracy Media and the Specter of “Fake News”
  14. Notes

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