Image Testimonies - Witnessing in Times of Social Media

List of contents

Notes on Contributors

1. Image Testimonies: Witnessing in Times of Social Media – Kerstin Schankweiler, Verena Straub, Tobias Wendl
PART I: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF TESTIMONIES


2. Credibility in Crisis: Contradictions of Web Video Witnessing – Sascha Simons


3. Affective Images and the Political Trial – Jonas Bens
IN CONVERSATION: Fearless Filming—Video Footage from Syria since 2011 – Marianna Liosi with Guevara Namer and Amer Matar
PART II: AFFECTIVE WITNESSING


4. "Moroccan Lives Matter": Practices and Politics of Affecting – Kerstin Schankweiler


5. Drone’s-Eye View: Affective Witnessing and Technicities of Perception – Michael Richardson
PART III: SOCIAL MEDIA PRACTICES


6. Photographic Witnessing, the Occupation, and Palestinian Politics – Simon Faulkner


7. Witnessing to Survive: Selfie Videos, Live Mobile Witnessing and Black Necropolitics – Penelope Papailias


8. Eye, Flesh, World: Three Modes of Digital Witnessing – Paul Frosh
PART IV: WITNESSING DESTRUCTION


9. "Living Martyrs": Testifying What is to Come – Verena Straub


10. Testimonies for a New Social Order: The Islamic State’s Iconic Iconoclasm – Christoph Günther, Tom Bioly


11. From Cape Town to Timbuktu: Iconoclastic Testimonies in the Age of Social Media – Tobias Wendl

About the author

Kerstin Schankweiler is an art historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Verena Straub is an art historian and research associate at the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Tobias Wendl is Professor for the Arts and Visual Cultures of Africa at the Institute of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Summary

Image Testimonies contributes to the ongoing debate of testimony and witnessing.

Product details

• Authors: Kerstin Straub Schankweiler
• Assisted by: Kerstin Schankweiler (Editor), Schankweiler Kerstin (Editor), Verena Straub (Editor), Tobias Wendl (Editor), Wendl Tobias (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138343061
• ISBN: 978-1-138-34306-1
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Studies in Affective Societies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Media studies: internet, digital media and society