Paul Frosh

This title exposes the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70 per cent of the images that define consumer cultures. It combines original research on stock photography with a theoretical take on the circulation of images in contemporary culture.

Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry

The Image Factory

Annekathrin Kohout

Kerstin Schankweiler

Wolfgang Ullrich

Daniel Hornuff

Globale Transmissionsriemen der Gesellschaft: digitale Bildkulturen verbinden und spalten, verschleiern und enthüllen. Sie sind gleichermaßen Medium für Gleichgesinnte und Feinde, für Ermutigung und Hass. Dieser Sammelband analysiert Bildproteste, Screenshots, Hassbilder, Netzfeminismus und Selfies.

Bildproteste, Screenshots, Hassbilder, Netzfeminismus und Selfies

Digitale Bildkulturen

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for how we reflect upon and act in a shared, everyday world of finite human existence. The Poetics of Digital Media explores the poetic work of media in digital culture. Developing an argument through close readings of overlooked or denigrated media objects – screenshots, tagging, selfies and more – the book reveals how media shape the taken-for-granted structures of our lives, and how they disclose our world through sudden moments of visibility and tangibility. Bringing us face to face with the conditions of our existence, it investigates how the ‘given’ world we inhabit is given through media. This book is important reading for students and scholars of media theory, philosophy of media, visual culture and media aesthetics.

Paul Frosh

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