عنوان

Where truth lies :

(Number (ISBN

0520972112

(Number (ISBN

9780520972117

Erroneous ISBN

9780520300934 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Title Proper

Where truth lies :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

digital culture and documentary media after 9/11 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Kris Fallon.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oakland, California :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2019

Date

1910

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Seeing in the dark -- "We see what we want to believe" : archival logic and database aesthetics in the war films of Errol Morris -- Networked audiences : moveon.org and brave new films -- "States of exception" : the paradox of virtual documentary representation -- Technology, transparency and the digital presidency -- Post-truth politics : conspiracy media and the specter of "fake news".

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Text of Note

"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 brings together 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. Fallon argues that the ideological rifts of the period inspired the adoption and adaptation of newly available technologies toward social mobilization and political action, a role played for much of the last century by independent documentary film. By focusing on particular moments of political rupture where prior forms of representation and persuasion were discarded or discredited, Fallon asserts that "truth" now lies in a new set of media forms and discursive practices, standards 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. Positioning documentary film and digital media side by side in the political sphere, this work deeply engages with both contemporary and historical precedents"--Provided by publisher.

International Standard Book Number

9780520300934

Digital media-- Political aspects-- United States-- 21st century.

Documentary mass media-- United States-- 21st century.

Mass media-- Objectivity-- United States-- 21st century.

Online social networks-- Political aspects-- 21st century.

Digital media-- Political aspects.

Documentary mass media.

Films, cinema.

Mass media-- Objectivity.

Media studies.

Online social networks-- Political aspects.

PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary.

Politics & government.

United States.

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APF.

JFD.

JP.

Number

Edition

Class number

Fallon, Kris,1976-

Date of Transaction

20200822115131.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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