Image brokers : visualizing world news in the age of digital circulation / Zeynep Devrim Gürsel.

By:

Gürsel, Zeynep Devrim [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780520286368 (paperback)

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LOC classification:

TR820 GUR

Contents:

Introduction: formative fictions: the work of international news images -- What precedes a news image? -- Global views Inc.: shock and awe and visualizing politics -- Agence France Presse: what is the dominant? -- Newsworld: everyday practices of editing the world -- Barnstorm: an iconic rite of passage -- Visa pour l'image: personal visions and the amateur threat -- World Press Photo: developing an image of the world -- Conclusion: timeline of war on terror.

Summary: "Image Brokers is an in-depth ethnography that reveals the labor and infrastructure behind news images and how they are circulated. Zeynep Devrim Gürsel presents an intimate look at the ways image brokers--the people who manage the distribution or restriction of images--construct and culturally mediate the images they circulate. Through this framework, news images become commodities that impact how politics and culture are visualized in the world. Set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and based on fieldwork conducted at the photojournalism industry's centers of power in New York and Paris, Image Brokers explores the transition from analog to digital technologies and shows how new digital and social media platforms continue to change photojournalism and create ever-widening distribution networks. The book is a powerful investigation of the processes of decision-making amid the changing infrastructures of representation."--Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	GSU Library Epoch General Stacks	TR820 GUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		50000006183

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-389) and index.

"Image Brokers is an in-depth ethnography that reveals the labor and infrastructure behind news images and how they are circulated. Zeynep Devrim Gürsel presents an intimate look at the ways image brokers--the people who manage the distribution or restriction of images--construct and culturally mediate the images they circulate. Through this framework, news images become commodities that impact how politics and culture are visualized in the world. Set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and based on fieldwork conducted at the photojournalism industry's centers of power in New York and Paris, Image Brokers explores the transition from analog to digital technologies and shows how new digital and social media platforms continue to change photojournalism and create ever-widening distribution networks. The book is a powerful investigation of the processes of decision-making amid the changing infrastructures of representation."--Provided by publisher.

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