Culture, Technology and the Image SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology

Culture, Technology and the Image SOCIAL SCIENCE / CriminologyCulture, Technology and the Image focuses on the technologies deployed when images are archived, accessed and presented. The chapters discuss the way that the habits and techniques used in learning and communicating knowledge about images are affected by technological developments. A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access: Culture, Technology and the Image. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution

The essays have been written by respected academics working in a number of disciplines including Film and Media Studies

In a Small House by Tadeusz Rittner

Opening with a discussion between Alain Badiou and Elie During

Meryl Shriver-Rice argues that Denmark has demonstrated that film can reinforce cultural ethics and political values while also navigating the ongoing and mounting forces of digital communication and globalization

between hard technology (machine-centred) and soft technology (human-centred)

The most creative attire is often found not on the catwalks or inside the auditoriums but on the streets

French Costume Drama of the 1950s redresses this balance

pointing the way toward possible directions for reform and reconciling the conflict between objective evaluation and individual creativity

a practising artist and a researcher

Presenting small-scale images of test explosions

In poems like “Reflections” and “Falling Snow

among other things