Abstract
Today, the convergence of video-based Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) is challenging centralized control over cultural topologies. Accordingly, this paper proposes a theoretical prism for the analysis of the sociopolitical impact of online audio-visual communication. More precisely, this study discusses how topological visibility (i.e. culture-based, highly centralized and spatially organized visibility structures) and networked visibility (i.e. occurrence-based, decentralized and network organized visibility structures) interact in today’s digital landscape. To this aim, four examples divided into two clusters will be discussed. The first cluster (i.e. Occupy Movement and BlackBerry Riots) will describe the functioning of topological visibility, while the second cluster (i.e. NO DAPL drone activism and Aleppo residents’ live-streaming) will illustrate how technology-enhanced mediability may create networked spaces of appearance. The paper concludes by arguing that networked visibility does not neutralize the relational nature of the human gaze but rather forces and expands the culturally-defined boundaries of its legitimate social existence.
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- Topological and networked visibility: Politics of seeing in the digital age
- A semiosic translation of Paul Celan’s Schwarze Flocken and Weggebeizt
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Ejecting protestors, interpellating supporters: The interactional pragmatics of expulsion at Trump’s campaign rallies
- What is political semiotics and why does it matter? A reply to Janar Mihkelsaar
- Iconic processes and intermediality in the photobooks Silent Book and Sí por Cuba
- From shipwreck to constellation: Rethinking Meillassoux on Mallarmé from a semiotic perspective
- Umberto Eco’s semiotics of the text: Theoretical observations and an analysis of the parable of the banquet
- The search for the imperfect language
- Semiospheric translation types reconsidered from the translation semiotics perspective
- Voicing control: A child resource for “growing a head taller”
- Kenneth Waltz talks through Mark Rothko: Visual metaphors in the discipline of International Relations Theory
- The cultural transformation of the proprioceptive senses
- On the embodied meaning of emotional responses to music: A semiotic perspective
- Asemic typography in kinetic design
- Topological and networked visibility: Politics of seeing in the digital age
- A semiosic translation of Paul Celan’s Schwarze Flocken and Weggebeizt